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Penguins' goal simple: Pay no attention to agitator Avery

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, April 25, 2008

PITTSBURGH -- Throw in one part fingernails on a blackboard, another part salt in a wound and bamboo under the fingernails, a third part Yoko Ono at full volume -- and you have the NHL agitator. The kind of player who, if allowed, can disrupt an opposing team's focus with his words and deeds and change the tone and tenor of a playoff series. Long before the puck dropped in this second-round series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New York Rangers, the discussion wasn't so much of Jaromi ...

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