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The Big Hurt

By By Tom Friend

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

"Can't this story wait until after the trade deadline?" -The best hockey player in Philadelphia *** Sorry that he drinks herbal tea. Sorry that he Scotch-tapes family Polaroids to the fridge and takes pregame baths and charters a jet home every Christmas. Sorry that he "lost it" when his coach said, "By the way, I have cancer." Sorry that his dad is his agent. Sorry that he's always injured, and that he could have died in Nashville, and that his general manager thinks he's a "baby," and that ...

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