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Finally, real races

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, December 16, 2002

The NHL season so far is reminiscent of the Breeders Cup, except we can guarantee that there will be no Breeders Cup-type scandal over a possible inside-chicanery, winning Pick Six wager on the division winners. These are real races. Puck parity, in other words. As of this writing -- nine days before Christmas, or eight days before the shopping season begins for the astute -- the Stars' eight-point lead in the Pacific is the only division margin approaching double-digits. And in the conferen ...

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