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Front Line: Let your sleepers lie

By Sean Allen
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

How patient do we need to be with our favorite preseason sleepers? In the case of players like Nikita Filatov (who hasn't cracked the 10-minute mark in ice time for a game) or Mikael Backlund (who didn't even make the NHL roster), not that long at all. In fact, if you haven't been rid of them yet, you have a job to do when you're done reading this. But what about Claude Giroux? David Perron? Or even Derick Brassard? We always look for the right combination of talent and opportunity, but what i ...

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