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Resurgent Hawks far from satisfied

The defending Stanely Cup champs are riding high for the first time in a long time

Updated: April 23, 2011, 7:35 PM ET
By Melissa Isaacson | ESPNChicago.com

CHICAGO -- Winning, a brilliant philosopher once said, is more fun than losing.

And so it was a relatively happy Blackhawks' team de-planing its flight from Vancouver on Friday, confident, they said, but not cocky; resurgent but not satisfied; maybe still a little angry but not necessarily just at the Canucks.

As the team's stars awake from a slumber that came over them at various times during this up-and-down season and in the first three games of their first-round ...

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