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Didlick/2006 Getty Images)  Eric Duhatschek  Tanguay out to
prove himself all over again Add to ...  In the NHL, anyone can
have a bad season. It happens to journeymen and it happens to
the league's stars - a year when every puck seems to bounce the
wrong way, or where every little nagging injury develops into
something more. The accumulated effect of such a year on a
player can occasionally force some needed introspection. The
smart ones go home, crawl under a rock, heal, train harder and
prove - to the world - that an off year is just that, a blip on
an otherwise successful career trajectory.  Now, two bad years
in a row, that's a different story. Two bad years in a row
suggest there may be some erosion in his overall game and that
the talent once present is slipping away.  This then is the
situation facing Alex Tanguay, one of two new/old players
recruited by the Calgary Flames in the off-