"I think a big part of that is just guys playing with the same guys for a lot of years," said Rangers forward Erik Christensen, who came up through Pittsburgh's organization. "And the more you know a guy or how well you know someone, you tend to build better chemistry."
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Borden, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from Brainerd, died Monday evening at a local hospital, said Erik Christensen, funeral director of Nelson-Doran Funeral Home in Brainerd, which is handling the services.