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A Different Look

By Lane Strauss

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

On a recent Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, a little more than 13,000 fans came to Nationwide Arena to watch the Blue Jackets take on the Blues. If the size of the crowd was something of a disappointment—the building has a capacity of 18,136—the hockey was anything but. Late in the second period, Jackets wing Nikolai Zherdev skated across the blue line and, with a backhand flick, lobbed the puck high and deep into the slot to linemate Rick Nash. Nash swatted the biscuit down with his big ...

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