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Claude Julien: 'Pretty special' to have known Yogi Berra

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BOSTON -- Yogi Berra transcended baseball. Everyone loved him -- even in the hockey world.

Boston Bruins coach Claude Julien spent one season (2006-2007) with the New Jersey Devils and the coach would see Berra on an almost-daily basis at the team’s practice facility in West Orange, N.