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Two sides to Lemieux's scoring title quest

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Mario Lemieux ensconced at top of the NHL scoring list, and with a margin that is akin to a 10-meter lead early in the 1,500 meters of Olympic speedskating? It's a throwback, something to which we grew comfortably familiar in the era of Lemieux contentment and relative health, and of a time when scoring 50 goals in a season wasn't an exclusive feat. (ESPN.com has obtained a transcript of the meeting of NHL 50-goal scorers after last season. Because the meeting was held in a phone booth, it beg ...

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