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Hockey finally has meaningful matchup

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, May 1, 2009

WASHINGTON -- And so we wait for hockey's Halley's comet, eyes looking upward, arms outstretched, fingers pointing to the place where this event will streak across the game's skies. What will happen? What will it be like? Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and Washington's Alex Ovechkin -- the rare intersection of the game's torchbearers, its seminal figures, all in their prime, in a playoff series with an Eastern Conference finals berth hanging in the balance. "How rare is this? H ...

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