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I concur (that was a joke), EVERYBODY is being a stud this year. Hasek is back. Jagr is back. Bertuzzi is back. The rookies have something to prove. The veterans have something to prove further still. The year off, plus the rule changes, has invigorated the entire league. Everyone is going for broke now. Perhaps in the future we may look back on the lockout as the best thing that ever happened for hockey. What it did, more than anything else, was make everybody hungry again. In the past, so many of them felt tired, disgruntled, beaten down, or just flat-out indifferent. It made for boring, sloppy, and the type of hockey that convinced fans to demand their money back. This year they are all playing amazingly well. It's almost like they want to make up for it, so they are putting the equivalent of two years worth of excitement into one.
That still doesn't make up for the fact that Forsberg has spent 2/3 of his career flopping around. He's such a legend at it, he's made it art. There are websites devoted to his brand of pussyfooting hockey.
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