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Smith providing results in net

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, February 20, 2009

TAMPA -- It may be unknown what path this Tampa Bay Lightning team will follow, but there appears to be at least one answer to the long-asked question of who is the goalie to lead the Bolts out of the wilderness. Mike Smith. Since the departure of Nikolai Khabibulin, who became the first Russian netminder to win a Stanley Cup as he backstopped the Lightning to their seminal Cup win in 2004, the team has wandered aimlessly from netminder to netminder. John Grahame, Marc Denis, Johan Holmqvist, ...

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