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A season of what might have been

By Scott Burnside
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

What stories might have been told? What sights seen? Would you have marveled at the sight of a Stanley Cup banner, slowly rising from the ice at the St. Pete Times Forum as the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning prepared to host the Philadelphia Flyers in a rematch of last spring's titanic seven-game Eastern Conference finals? Still sounds a bit funny, no? Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning. But on October 13, 2004, frenzied Bolts fans would have seen the first-ever Sta ...

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