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COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ The greatest land rush in hockey began at one minute past midnight Monday morning. The NHL free-agency period, as stocked with significant talent as it has ever been, started then. As the clock struck, the gentlemen presumably dialed their faxes.
Except, if he has been telling the truth, for Bob Clarke.
We'll know soon enough. This thing tends to go quick, quick, quick. The best players _ Bobby Holik and Bill Guerin, Curtis Joseph and Mike Richter, Chris Chelios and Darius Kasparaitis and Tony Amonte _ probably will be hitched by week's end (and some by sundown). When there are only about a half-dozen teams wealthy enough to bid for the top guys, it doesn't take long. Quick, quick, quick.
Clarke runs one of...
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