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Sakic: What you see isn't what you get

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, December 1, 2002

Fuss over milestones sometimes is a contrived salute to society's adoption of the base-10 decimal numbering system. In this era of all these marketing morons (a.k.a., "gurus") going to league meetings and producing generic screaming game-night "presentations," sometimes we expect these scoreboards and public-address announcers to implore the crowd to give a second-year winger a standing ovation for reaching his "ONE HUNDREDTH GAME PLAYED! COME ON, GIVE IT UP BEFORE WE GET TO THE TRIVIA QUIZ!" ...

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