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'Youth' no longer excuse for Ovie, others

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 1, 2009

In a summer dominated by the ridiculous (the middle-of-the-night firing of NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly) and the mega-ridiculous (the ongoing battle over the Phoenix Coyotes and the resignation of coach Wayne Gretzky last week), we take away one image from this summer that is, we hope, a talisman for a better day. It was a brilliant Saturday evening in early August near Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. At the side of Sidney Crosby's lake house, away from the family and friends who had come to ...

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