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Degrees of first-round loss

By Terry Frei
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

It's eerie now. In the final weekend of the regular season, as the Sharks justifiably and efficiently were sending out information that touted Todd McLellan's work in his first season behind the San Jose bench and implicitly touted him as a coach of the year candidate, we asked him after a morning skate about the playoff pressures facing his team. The situation was far from unique. The 2008-09 Sharks were going to be defined by their postseason run, not what turned out to be their Presidents ...

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