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In search of success the second time around

By Rob Parent
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

It may not be the plague it's so often hyped as, but the notorious "sophomore jinx" is, at the very least, a cause for front office fretting. Something that began in baseball, with the occasional cases of rookie phenoms gone asunder by their second years -- (where did you ever go, Mark Fidrych?) -- has become, in the true fashion of sports, an overused, overhyped media creation complete with a catch name. But now, the malady has spread to every sport. In the NHL, it isn't so difficult to envis ...

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