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Teams' reactions to injuries key to survival

By Barry Melrose
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, April 2, 2004

Open Ice Injuries, injuries, injuries. How teams react to them will be the big story of the playoffs. The Stanley Cup playoffs are the most grueling in professional sports. For two months, teams are playing every two days as if lives depended on the outcome. There's no greater mental or physical test in all of sports. The closest maybe football and in the NFL teams play four games at the most with a week or two in between games to rest injuries. When travel time, intensity and physical nature of ...

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