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Red Wings are still strong, but other West foes could get in way

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, September 19, 2008

No NHL franchise is in a league of its own. Not even the Red Wings. When I say that, I'm not talking about an elite status competitively, but about the reality that, in addition to the state of its own roster, a team's fate is tied to the improvement or deterioration of its opponents. So with the season approaching, the continuing improvement of the Chicago Blackhawks and Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference, for example, looms as one of the key issues in surveying the chances of the o ...

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