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Sticks and Stone

By By Tom Wheatley

Monday, October 14, 2002

Dave Lewis figured it might be a little uncomfortable replacing Scotty Bowman behind the Cup champions' bench. He had no idea it would be excruciating. "The pain!" Lewis says. "I was bent over, sweating. It started at 7 a.m., but by 2 p.m. I was fine and out of the hospital." This wasn't an anxiety attack (not having captain Steve Yzerman, out until midseason after knee surgery, will give you that). Lewis was describing passing a kidney stone in the final week of training camp: "When I was 20, ...

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