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He was the Game 1 hero a year ago, scoring the biggest goal of his career to give the Winnipeg Jets a first-ever franchise playoff victory.
But as a new playoff season began Wednesday night, Joe Morrow wasn't on the team's blue line. Instead, the 26-year-old well-travelled journeyman was in the press box, a healthy scratch forced to watch from the sidelines as 20 teammates begin their quest for a Stanley Cup.