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How to deal with the big 3-0

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Monday, May 25, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. -- There is something decidedly death row-like about visiting the locker room of a team down 3-0 in a playoff hockey series. Carolina players rolled into the dressing room to answer questions about the futility of the situation ... you know, dead team walking. You could almost do a clinical study on the phases teams like the Carolina Hurricanes go through when faced with the virtually impossible task of erasing a 3-0 series deficit. It would go something like this: denial, defian ...

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