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Celeste's only change come playoffs is that they try to pick it up and move faster. They'd like to be known as a player who can rise to the occasion and meet the stresses and pressures of the playoffs head on, and to them that means moving faster, thinking faster, doing faster. The regular season is a long haul, so they try their best to pace themself, but the playoffs are a blitz, hard and fast and harsh, and if you can out-move the skaters on the other team to create more opportunities, you've got a better chance at going further. Of course, they're rusty at all of this now after two seasons on the outside of the postseason and an early trip home, but they're hopeful that that won't be an ongoing pattern in the near future. All they can do for now is train, working toward keeping up their speed for the next time they get a shot at playoffs.

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