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First-round breakdown: Red Wings vs. Predators

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Sunday, April 6, 2008

GM David Poile and coach Barry Trotz turned what could have easily been a lost season into a memorable one for the Nashville Predators. Forced by outgoing owner Craig Leipold to strip down his team, Poile traded Tomas Vokoun to Florida, dealt the rights to Scott Hartnell and Kimmo Timonen to Philadelphia and watched Paul Kariya and Peter Forsberg walk away as free agents before somehow cobbling together a team that snuck into the eighth spot in final days of the regular season. Now, for all the ...

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