Tortorella dismissed the significance of that statistic Tuesday after practice, but it marked a striking break from how he has divvied out playing time in previous postseasons.

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Anaheim missed two of the previous three postseasons, and Honda Center was packed well before the opening faceoff with hungry fans waving orange glow sticks and whipping towels above their heads.

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While network execs regularly pray for big market matchups for the NBA, MLB and NHL postseasons, they pretty much sit back and watch the numbers pile up for the NFL playoffs.

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The Yankees essentially made no efforts to retain Swisher, who suffered through a string of miserable postseasons in New York that made him a liability in October, the only season that really matters.

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The Knicks won just one game in his first two postseasons after former team president Donnie Walsh, who undertook the rebuilding of the Knicks from 2008-11 before returning to the Pacers' front office, made the deal to acquire the All-Star forward from Denver in February 2011.

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