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The Blackhawks way

By Melissa Isaacson
ESPNChicago.com

Thursday, July 16, 2009

"Keep those posters up," the director queued the crowd, and -- like everything else the Chicago Blackhawks did Thursday and do nearly every day -- it was perfectly choreographed. The kids did indeed keep those posters up. The players, Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky, who were seated in front of the cheering throng, said all the right things in a news conference carried live on Comcast SportsNet and streamed on the Internet. And they said it at the prescribed time, the day before some 10,000 str ...

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