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Photo: The Canadian Press It turns out those obituaries for Hockeytown, USA were premature. That suggestion - along with a couple pernicious fallacies have been cast aside. If you follow hockey you know exactly what I’m talking about: the ones that said European players like Hank Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk couldn’t compete at the highest level, and that a European captain simply ...
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