With respect to Mangiapane: A sixth round draft pick that plays a season or two on your farm team's top line and a couple of sold games in the NHL is already a big win for the organization. Anything else (and I think that there will be a lot indeed) is just icing on the cake.
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"Life of Russian hockey veterans is very hard," said Soviet hockey star Sergei Makarov. "Most of them don't have enough to eat these days. These old players are Russian legends."
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