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Jagr's spree helps Rangers stay alive for another day

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 1, 2008

NEW YORK -- When a team has no hope, where does inspiration come from? A bubblegum wrapper? A cereal box? An infomercial? Maybe for the members of the New York Rangers, they simply looked onto the ice at Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan, a couple of guys whose faces will one day be immortalized on the walls of the Hall of Fame, and said simply, show us the way. And so it was that captain Jagr, evoking a time when he was the dominant player in the NHL, pulled the Rangers one tiny but crucial ...

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