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Title: Pregame kicks: for the Canucks and other teams, booting around a soccer ball before every game is about more than just loosening up.(See A Different Game)
Author: Kara Yorio
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2004
Publisher: Sporting News Publishing Co.
Volume: 228 Issue: 11 Page: 52(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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It's about an hour before the puck drops on a pivotal Western Conference road game for the Canucks. From the door of the visitors' locker room, Daniel Sedin emerges with a soccer ball. In short order, three, six, nine, a dozen players are acting like kids on a playground, kicking the ball back and forth in a circle that takes up an entire hallway inside the Sawis Center in St. Louis.