In the age of the salary cap, it has become vitally important for contending teams to have a couple bargain players who perform at a much higher level than their cap hit would indicate the player is worth. Ever since the Flyers acquired Ville Leino from Detroit — or, more accurate, ever since he was finally able to get into Peter Laviolette’s lineup as a regular — he has been one of those great

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