If he can take any consolation out of this series, maybe it is this: Through those four games, he had a higher save percentage (.860) than his counterpart, the Islanders' Evgeni Nabokov (.846).

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If there is any consolation to be had from this catalogue of wars, it is that recent decades have seen the tide of conflict ebb slowly backwards.

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The only consolation is it was pretty instantaneous and he wouldn't have felt any pain.

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