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Khabibulin counted on more in Tampa

By Darren Pang
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

How can the Atlanta Thrashers compare the risk they'd be taking in signing Byron Dafoe to their decision to spend as much money as they did on Damian Rhodes? When they brought Rhodes in as their No. 1 guy in 1999, there wasn't an observer out there who thought it was the right thing to do. He was too inconsistent, both on the ice and off, and never proved himself to be reliable enough in Ottawa (on a good team) that would make someone thing he'd thrive in an unaided environment (on an expansio ...

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