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Coaches bring best out of goalies

By Scott Burnside
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, April 12, 2004

TAMPA, Fla. -- For one goalie, being Zen-like is being invisible. For the other goalie, it's singing and staring at pucks and chattering away nonstop. Both have been instrumental in their team's respective victories as the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Islanders split the opening two games of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series. Both will need all the Zen they can get heading to the raucous, definitely un-Zen-like Nassau Coliseum. For the better part of a week including the after ...

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