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Low scoring not the enemy of these playoffs

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Sunday, May 13, 2007

DETROIT -- Can we stop the bleating about not seeing enough goals in the playoffs? Enough already. You'd swear those complaining that we're not seeing basketball scores in the postseason had never seen a playoff game or understood what makes the NHL playoffs so compelling. When the NHL was being driven into the ground by the trap and the nightly rodeo performance that passed as hockey before the lockout, the complaints were loud and they were justified. The regular season, which often lack ...

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