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Gretzky and Co. can't deny it -- youngsters making difference in Phoenix

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Often, when a struggling franchise trumpets its "kids" in trying to build a case for better days ahead, it's a combination of excuse-making and self-delusion. If most of the "kids" are, at best, just journeymen waiting to happen, that's not much to brag about. Or even if most of the "kids" are better than that, a franchise's patience can become a casualty of ownership panic over such things as lagging attendance. So here are the Phoenix Coyotes, sitting 12th in the Western Conference, albeit ...

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