Patricia Schroeder: “In Colorado, this is gold. This is the wonderful jersey of the Avalanche who last night won all of our hearts by winning…”

“In Colorado, this is gold. This is the wonderful jersey of the Avalanche who last night won all of our hearts by winning the Stanley Cup in four straight games--four straight games. And this was their very first season in Colorado. Now, my district is normally a mile high, but today I think it is 2 miles high. I cannot tell you the excitement. And I know I should apologize to all of you who are here who were awakened last night at about 1:04 in the morning when the winning goal was made, but we are not going to apologize because we think it is great that you were awakened by people from Colorado cheering everywhere. In fact, we are even talking this morning about renaming the Rocky Mountains to the Hockey Mountains. I think they are going to find that hockey fever has taken over and is absolutely captivating. Some of the things that I particularly want to point out as we talk today is this wonderful, wonderful team. The fabulous thing about this Avalanche team is they have acted as a team. You do not see egos popping out. You see them working together and liking each other, and look what they did in 1 year.”