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Should Halls relax standards of greatness?

By George Johnson
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, November 3, 2002

Time may run out on a career, but there's no statute of limitations on entering hockey's gates of Olympus. This year's Hockey Hall of Fame inductees are stay-at-home defenseman Rod Langway of the Washington Capitals, New York Islanders policeman Clark Gillies, center Bernie Federko of the St. Louis Blues and Captain Video, coach Roger Neilson. All three playing inductees were stars of their era. Indisputably fine players who excelled at vastly different facets of the game. None, however, were ...

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