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The Mag: What are they saying about me?

By Gare Joyce
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Akim Aliu is trying to figure out what those guys are saying about him. He doesn't know their names, and he can't make out exactly what it is they're muttering about, but he can tell it's not good. Aliu, in a navy, pin-striped suit, is killing time in the basement of Toronto's Park Plaza hotel, waiting for his next interview with an NHL team at the combine. He's watching other prospects go through their physical testing, the tests he went through this morning. He sees scouts milling around, gl ...

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