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Boucher always ready to be No. 1

By Brian A. Shactman
ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 11, 2000

Last year, Flyers goalie Brian Boucher came out of nowhere to lead Philly to within one win of the Stanley Cup finals. No, wait a minute. He didn't come from nowhere. He was planning all along on becoming a No. 1 goalie. And he's happy to tell you that. "I always believed in myself," he said recently. "In a way, the media in Philly made it look like I came out of nowhere. ... What other people perceive and what I perceive are two different things." Just two years ago, Boucher wasn't even co ...

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