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Think it doesn’t make that much of a difference? Try selling that to an Edmonton Oilers team that lost by one goal in Game 7 of last year’s Stanley Cup Finals to the same Florida Panthers they are up against a year later.

That one was played in Sunrise, Fla., in front of a crowd so hostile Oi

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