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NHL needs exciting series to revive sport

By By Jim Wilkie
NHL Insider

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

NHL team management honchos and coaches aren't all the most original and creative bunch to begin with, but after the Calgary-Tampa Bay Stanley Cup final a welcome change would take place if more teams copy the Flames' and Lightning's up-tempo, aggressive, hard-forechecking, fast-skating style. "We are notorious copycats in sports," former Lightning general manager Phil Esposito told the Tampa Tribune. "Teams are starting to go this way, open it up a little bit, make it more entertaining, the de ...

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