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All in good, clean fun

By Jim Kelley
ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

It would be nice if the National Hockey League could wave a magic wand and compel the league's most vociferous yet uninterested critics to follow just the first round of this edition of the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's possible they would come away with a good idea of what the game can be when played at a very high level. The physicality of the first round to date has been monstrous in terms of the hits -- a great many of them punishing we might add -- and they have been so far removed from the ...

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