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sports.yahoo.com - 6/2/2008

Mirtle vs. Wyshynski: Do the Red Wings get a pass for boring hockey?

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James Mirtle is a staffer at The Globe and Mail and a hockey blogging pioneer. Greg Wyshynski is the editor of Yahoo! Sports' Puck Daddy blog. The only thing they can agree on is that they disagree more often than not. "Their debates about hockey and life in general will be published here every Thursday, following this special Stanley Cup finals edition. Here begins rhetorical ...

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