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Joe Pavelski, finding success in competition:

ST. LOUIS -- There's a statue outside the rink here of the player who most influenced a young Wisconsin kid named Joe Pavelski years ago when it came to becoming the type of goal scorer he is today: A player with an incredible ability to redirect pucks for goals or snipe others from the slot on one-timers.

"Brett Hull," the San Jose Sharks captain responded Monday night when I asked him which player he tried to model himself after as a young athlete. "His hands in front of the net were just so good."
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"It's incredible," Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer said of Pavelski's tipping ability. "You think back to some of the best scorers ever. His ability to get his stick on pucks in the offensive zone, in front of the net, different angles, is as good as anybody I've ever seen.

"But it's a great lesson. He works at it. He works at it every day. He gets Burnsy or one of the other D, gets them to fire 100, 200 pucks. I'll watch him from the boards with the other coaches. He'll get a piece of every single one. It's something that he has worked at.

"It's a great lesson for kids out there that want to play. You have to work at those things to become really good. He's got some God-given ability too. His biggest asset is he works at it."

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