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Icing It Down: Gerber or Emery?

By Tim Kavanagh
ESPN.com

Sunday, October 14, 2007

It's the age-old sports adage: A player should not lose his starting spot because of an injury. However, what should happen and what does happen are sometimes quite divergent things. Do you bench the player who is doing well just to maintain loyalty to the previous owner of that spot? There are cases across all the major sports in which the replacement has taken over and proved a better option than the player replaced. Which brings us to the goalie situation in Ottawa. As Jeff "The Dude" Lebow ...

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