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Where in the world is Vladimir Tarasenko?

ST. LOUIS — One of the great Stanley Cup playoff headlines appeared in the Winnipeg Sun in the early 1990s when the Jets’ best defenceman had vanished without a trace against the Vancouver Canucks.

Blasted across the newspaper late in the series: 1-800-FIND-PHIL.

We can’t recall if the search team ever located Phil Housley, but we know the Jets were eliminated.

Today, the St. Louis Blues are frantically searching for Vladimir Tarasenko. It is hard to lose someone that big.

Tarasenko’s physical and mental conditions may be issues in the National Hockey League’s Western Conference final, which is led 3-2 by the San Jose Sharks and has been contested largely without input from St.