Wrapping up a busy day

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I've finally had a chance to catch up and eat something after filing my story for tomorrow's paper and posting updates on this site all day. Here's some stuff that slipped through the cracks earlier and some of my observations... [link]

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Published 7/2/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
... nothing more important to them and because it’s been a great 12-13 years prior to last year. But if I give my best as I always had and make the team better, I think that’s all they (want). Yeah, there are going to be people who have opinions. I have opinions, too. So, we all do. And we’re all entitled to them. But the bottom line is I’m on that team to make the team better and I believe I can with whatever role they designate for me.” more, Devils related…

In his return to New Jersey, Bobby Holik is still Bobby Holik
Published 7/2/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
Get a few beers in me, and I can bust out this wicked Bobby Holik impression. It sounds like either Hans or Franz speaking briskly with a stuffy nose. I string together an endless collection of loosely organized, barely comprehensible thoughts with the transition phrase "and you know" between them. Accuracy has no home in this impression; oh, but it kills at the right Jersey bars at 1 a.m. Beat writer Tom Gulitti of Fire & Ice caught up with Holik, who returned to the New Jersey Devils for a one-year, $2.5 million in a rather ...

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