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Avalanche shows its championship DNA, offers Jets lessons to ponder for the future

Avalanche shows its championship DNA, offers Jets lessons to ponder for the future

Rick Bowness invoked the wisdom from one of hockey's most famous playoff tales Tuesday night. “You get to this stage, at the end of a playoff series, if you're not putting an ice bag on, you're not playing hard enough,” Bowness said. As the story goes, the young, up-and-coming Edmonton Oilers had just lost the 1983 Stanley Cup Final to the dynastic New York Islanders.