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Long shots spark new coaching trend

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Sunday, May 3, 2009

WASHINGTON -- From the beginning, this Eastern Conference semifinal series has been about the can't-miss kids: Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin. It is more than a little curious, then, that the men who stand behind them each night, the men who draw up the game plans and set these players loose, come from a world far removed from "can't miss." In fact, Washington's Bruce Boudreau and Pittsburgh's Dan Bylsma are the long-shot kids in a profession that has been marked for a long time ...

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