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A playoff pattern? Not in these finals

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 11, 2009

DETROIT -- It hasn't quite been a mini-series, nor a drama in seven acts, but rather these Stanley Cup finals have been like six separate and distinct entities linked only by the appearance each night of the same two teams. A playoff series will often follow some sort of pattern, whether it's an ongoing physical battle, as was the case in the Anaheim/Detroit Western Conference finals, or a test of wills between offensive wizards, as was the case in the Washington/Pittsburgh second-round serie ...

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