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Sporting News NHL preview schedule (SportingNews.com)
Notice a chill in the air? September arrives and bring the return of the National Hockey League -- on the ice, not in boardrooms, conventional halls or hearing chambers. Feel free to cheer. Sporting News notes the change in season with its 2010-11 Hockey yearbook, which previews the marathon to next June's crowning of a new Stanley Cup winner. To mark the occasion, SN provides online looks at all 30 teams, leading up to the season's start -- which again this year is in Europe. |
Wild center James Sheppard fractures left kneecap (AP)
Minnesota Wild center James Sheppard has a fractured left kneecap and there is no timetable for his return. The team disclosed the injury Tuesday. It said Sheppard was hurt in an off-ice accident on Saturday night in Vail, Colo., but did not say what happened. The timing couldn't be much worse for Sheppard, a former first-round draft pick who has been slow to develop in the Wild organization. |
Wild Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
From a work-ethic standpoint and certainly a defensive one, the assumption is the Wild did some vast improving this summer with the additions of forwards Matt Cullen, John Madden, Eric Nystrom and Brad Staubitz. But many fans are wondering just who's going to score for the Wild this season.
The Wild scored 219 goals last season, which ranked 22nd in the NHL and was the exact number of goals the Wild scored in Jacques Lemaire's final year as coach. This paltry number came in the first year of new coach Todd Richards' much ballyhooed up-tempo system.
But the Wild gave up 42 more goals than Lemaire's prior year, so the Wild's brass hopes better defense and goaltending ends the Wild's two-year absence. |
Free agent Willie Mitchell signs with Kings (SportingNews.com)
Defenseman Willie Mitchell, perhaps the top remaining unrestricted free agent not named Ilya Kovalchuk on the market, signed a two-year, $7 million contract with the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. Mitchell, 33, had made a free-agent tour over the past week and a half, visiting the Kings, San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals while retaining interest in the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he has played the past four seasons. Mitchell appears fully recovered from a season-ending concussion in mid-January. |
Unusual NHL rules proposals get an airing (SportingNews.com)
After two days of demonstrations, discussions and exchanging ideas at an ice rink in Toronto, nothing was decided -- officially. But everyone who attended the NHL research and development camp was impressed by league vice president Brendan Shanahan's creative presentation of potential rules changes, different strategies and new equipment. "My focus is on getting the hockey world to examine some things," Shanahan told The Globe and Mail. |
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