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NHL Forecaster: Hawks on the hunt

By Sean Allen
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Although the Forecaster's new rating system continues to fine-tune as we wait for enough statistics from this season, it's still looking pretty good so far. We pointed to good starts for the San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals last week and, sure enough, the top five scorers through Oct. 8 are Nicklas Backstrom, Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Joe Thornton and Dany Heatley. For Week 2, I'm still including last year's data in the calculation because using just this year's data would be far t ...

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