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No matter what problems people have with today's NHL, there is little argument the league is filled with seriously talented players who have size and speed and skill. But there is something missing from the game now that was once there, and it's not the high-flying, high-scoring games veteran sportswriters wax poetically about. It was an attribute of one of this year's Hockey Hall of Fame inductees, Pat LaFontaine.
"I don't think there's anybody in the game today with the kind of speed he had to the outside," says Lightning left winger Dave Andreychuk, who played with LaFontaine when both were on the Sabres. "When I played with him, I was basically trying to ...