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Our special take on the mundane quote

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Monday, June 8, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- There is no mightier shield in the late stages of this Stanley Cup finals series than the cliché. The words all have been doled out, and the situation is clear: The Penguins must win Tuesday evening to force a seventh game Friday in Detroit, or they will watch a Stanley Cup celebration on their home ice for the second year in a row. But still we demand more words from the coaches and their players, even if those words all have a certain sameness to them at this stage of the proce ...

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