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On the hot seat: as the season opens, every team has hopes and fears, but no players are under more scrutiny than Red Wings goalie Curtis Joseph and Capitals center Robert Lang. (NHL: season preview).
Western: Curtis Joseph
By Tim Wharnsby
The Red Wings are a determined bunch.
In 1996-97, they were determined to end their 42-year Stanley Cup drought. They did. The next season they were determined to win a Cup for defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, who had been seriously injured in a limousine accident. They did.
Last year the Red Wings were determined to win for Dominik Hasek, Luc Robitaille, Steve Duchesne and Fredrik Olausson, who had combined for 59 NHL seasons and 3,877 games but zero Stanley Cups. They did.
This season the team is determined to win for goalie Curtis Joseph and new coach Dave Lewis, who took over for the legendary Scotty Bowman.
Joseph, an unrestricted flee agent, signed a three-year, $24 million deal with the Red Wings last summer and finds himself on the Western Conference hot seat. And like Hasek when he joined Detroit, Joseph has not won a Cup in his long career. You think he feels the heat?
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