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Canucks fire coach Willie Desjardins after disappointing season

Willie Desjardins’ time in Vancouver has come to an end.

The Canucks fired their coach of three years Monday after a disappointing season that produced only 69 points.

Marchand has been disciplined in the past several times for taking Cheap Atlanta Braves Jerseys out opponents’ legs.

In 2011, the NHL fined Marchand $2,500 for a slew-foot on then-Penguins Cheap Blue Jays Jerseys defenseman Matt Niskanen. More recently, he was given a two-game suspension in 2015 for slew-footing then-Rangers forward Derick Brassard.

Marchand took out Kronwall’s legs from behind, but it wasn’t technically considered a slew-foot because he didn’t put his arm on Kronwall.

Marchand, who leads the Bruins with 47 points in 51 games, will join goalie Tuukka Rask in representing the team at this weekend’s All-Star Game.

It’s unclear whether that factored into the NHL’s decision not to issue a suspension. Marchand may not have been able to participate if that was the case.

ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun noted an instance in 2012 when Alex Ovechkin skipped the All-Star Game while serving a three-game suspension.

After a 19-goal, 51-point rookie season two years ago, Draisaitl exploded Cheap Blank Hockey Jerseys in 2016-17, scoring 29 goals and 77 points, second to McDavid on the Oilers in both categories. In the playoffs, Draisaitl starred, leading the club with six goals and 16 points in 13 games.

Draisaitl is going to get paid, very well it should be added, perhaps on a long-term deal worth $7 million AAV. The bet here is that an agreement comes before training camp. The talented young German is simply too important to a team that has serious championship aspirations this season.

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the Orioles have a good track record of finding and/or making relievers.

Nothing has changed since we wrote about the possibility of the Astros trading for Britton, so if you’re an Orioles partisan, this all still applies:

… the Orioles have a good track record of finding and/or making relievers. They correctly identified that Britton’s future was in the bullpen in the first place, and Cheap Braves Jerseys they’ve been successful at polishing rough gems like Mychal Givens or liberating underappreciated pitchers like Darren O’Day. I don’t Cheap Atlanta Braves Jerseys know what a Richard Bleier is, but it apparently has a 1.60 ERA in 39 innings.

The Yankees do not have an ace right now. CC Sabathia is doing a fine impression of one, and that might be enough, but his underlying numbers suggest a season worse than the ERA he’s put up, and he also is averaging fewer than 5-2/3 innings per start. Aces aren’t leaving so much work behind for the bullpen. Luis Severino has a better claim to being New York’s top starter, but he’s 23 years old and the 120 innings he’s thrown this year are already a big-league career-high — does he have 200-plus frames in his arm? No one knows, because he’s never shown us either way.

On top of those questions, Michael Pineda is out for the year, and the Yankees have already used nine different starters in 2017. Their depth hasn’t impressed, there are questions at the top of the rotation, and while Masahiro Tanaka is once again pitchable, he’s not exactly the Tanaka of old, either. Adding Darvish would fix a lot of problems, and games where he can be paired up with New York’s recently upgraded bullpen are about as close to an automatic win as baseball allows.

Rock finally gets his due from the BBWAA. A seven-time All-Star, Raines was the subject of a famous decade-long campaign from the new school of sabremetric baseball writers, using advanced statistics to build a convincing case for him being one of the best outfielders of his generation.

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Kings, Canucks slated to play preseason games in China

For the first time, the NHL will play a game China.

The Kings and Canucks are slated to play a pair of preseason games in China as part of the 2017 NHL China Games, the league announced Wednesday.

Crosby, Price and McDavid led their divisions since the NHL opened Cheap Authentic Baseball Jerseys voting in December. Subban, who hasn’t played since Dec. 15 while dealing with an injury, surpassed Chicago’s Patrick Kane for the honor in the second round of voting.

The NHL’s All-Star Weekend opens Jan. 28 at Staples with the annual skills competition. The 3-on-3 tournament, a format that debuted last season to rave reviews, thanks in part to Scott’s storybook inclusion, will be played Jan 29.

It’s possible Subban won’t be available to carry out his captain duties as he contemplates surgery for a herniated disc in his back, Sportsnet reported.

Crosby, a 10-time All-Star selection, hasn’t played in the event since 2007 having dealt with injuries in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2015. He was a surprise snub last year.

McDavid, should he participate, would make his All-Star Game debut after missing most of his rookie season due to injury.

Do the Islanders and John Tavares finalize a contract extension any time soon?

John Tavares appears to be the most loyal, and patient, superstar in sports. However, the Islanders can not take that for granted and trust that means he will sign a contract extension Cheap Bruins Jerseys before becoming an unrestricted free agent next July 1.

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Toronto dangling Estrada out there to a team desperate for pitching

The Jays wouldn’t get a haul for Estrada, but also, they might get more for him now than if they wait around for him to pitch well enough to deserve a qualifying offer and the compensation that could come with it assuming Estrada’s new free agent deal merits said compensation. By the way, that whole system is a huge mess now if you’re trying to predict who is going to get an offer or not.

Toronto dangling Estrada out there to a team desperate for pitching — read that as most teams in contention — should earn them more than holding on to the pending free agent in the hopes he rebounds for them. That, and they’ll save a bit of money by sending him off somewhere. Or they could agree to pay some of the remaining salary — Estrada makes a total of $14.5 million this year — and maybe bump up the quality of prospect return.

This one is a B+. The Royals want Estrada, and it makes sense that they would Cheap Authentic Baseball Jerseys try to get Estrada, but the Blue Jays front office might want more from him than the Royals can offer since they could always sit back and hope Estrada rebounds and they benefit from it Cheap Bruins Jerseys this offseason, either by re-signing the right-hander or through compensation. That kind of muddies the waters when it comes to the likelihood of a deal, even if from a believability standpoint, everything checks out.

The All-Star Game is an exhibition again, and that’s good! It opens the game up to be more fun, with players and the broadcast having a good time with the proceedings. There’s still a lot of regular baseball going on in the game, though, which in the 2017 edition, meant we ended up with a 1-1 game going into extra innings in a game that doesn’t count for anything that didn’t see its first pitch until 8:22 p.m. ET.

We’re not saying extra innings shouldn’t exist — exhibition or no, it’s still baseball — but the Midsummer Classic could use some tweaks to make sure we’re never again in a situation where Robinson Cano has to save the audience and the game’s managers from running out of players in extras.

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Blues fire coach Ken Hitchcock months before he was set to retire

Ken Hitchcock’s farewell tour is ending early.

The veteran St. Louis Blues coach was set to retire after this season, but general manager Doug Armstrong fired him Wednesday morning. Former Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo, added Cheap Dodgers Jerseys to Hitchcock’s staff last summer as the coach-in-waiting, will take over immediately.

The Blues fell, 5-3, at home to Winnipeg on Tuesday, their fifth loss in six games. At 24-21-5, St. Louis is fourth in the Central Division but currently sits in the second Western Conference wild-card position.

Hitchcock, 65, served as head coach of the Stars, Flyers and Blue Jackets before taking over in St. Louis in 2011. His 781 career regular-season wins trail only Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville and Al Arbour in NHL history.

Yeo, 43, went 173-132-44 as Minnesota’s coach from 2011-16; he was fired last February. His first game in charge in St. Louis will be Thursday against the Maple Leafs.

The real issue is Russell. A polarizing player in the analytics vs. eye test debate, Russell has bled shot-attempts and shots against from the blue line.

Chiarelli cited the Penguins and Blackhawks as teams with comparable Cheap Echl Jerseys cap structures and, for good reason. Next to McDavid and Draisaitl, the next-highest cap duos come from Chicago (Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, $21M) and Pittsburgh (Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, $18.2M).

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Martin Havlat retires after 14 NHL seasons

Martin Havlat is hanging up his skates.

The 35-year-old veteran winger on Wednesday announced his retirement from professional hockey after 14 NHL seasons.

I have been working with outstanding health care professionals and expect to be back in the broadcast booth after I complete my treatment, Olczyk said in a release. Having the support and encouragement from my family, the Chicago Blackhawks organization, NBC Sports and all my friends and fans means the Cheap Authentic Jerseys From China world to me and will give me continued strength to beat this.

Olczyk, who turns 51 next week, has been an analyst on Blackhawks broadcasts for the past decade. He also serves as the lead analyst on NBC’s national NHL package and has worked on the network’s horse racing coverage.

The former center played in the NHL from 1984-2000, beginning and ending his career with his hometown Blackhawks. He also played for the Maple Leafs, Jets, Rangers, Kings and Penguins.

He later served as Pittsburgh’s head coach from 2003-06.

Also consider this: defensemen Darnell Nurse and Matt Benning are each Cheap Chelsea Jerseys entering the final year of their entry-level contracts. Talbot has two years left on his deal before hitting free agency in the summer of 2019. Rookie forward Jesse Puljujarvi, who will probably be a mainstay in Edmonton’s lineup this year, has two years remaining on his ELC.

All of those guys are going to get paid, which will be difficult to do without the luxury of a whole lot of cap flexibility.

We’re ready to accept the challenge and we have the means to backfill in terms of younger talent—not necessarily right away, but we have to look at it that way… but we feel comfortable with it, Chiarelli said.

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Penguins mascot marches with real penguins before NHL Stadium Series game

Fans watching Saturday’s NHL Stadium Series game at Heinz Field didn’t expect to see real penguins.

Before the Penguins took on the rival Flyers in the outdoor interstate showdown, though, seven penguins from the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium waddled across the ice.

If Crosby’s 102-point rookie season was any indication, he was on his way to big things. Still Cheap Authentic Jerseys From China just 19 years old in his sophomore year of NHL duty, Crosby accomplished something never before seen in the NHL or in professional North American sports. In an encore performance for the ages, Crosby recorded 120 points, becoming the youngest player to win the Art Ross and the youngest athlete in the history of North American professional sports to win a scoring title. Crosby finished with 36 goals and 84 assists; he is one of three players (Henrik Sedin, Joe Thornton) with an 80-assist season since the turn of the century.

By the time Crosby entered his fifth NHL season, he had plenty of hardware in his trophy case, but was still able to add a new accolade that season. For the first time in his career, Crosby reached the 50-goal plateau and, in doing so, led the NHL in goals for the first time, garnering his first Maurice Richard Trophy. Crosby shared the award with Lightning forward Steven Stamkos in an exciting race that saw both superstars finish with 51 goals, and Ovechkin nipping at their heels with 50.

It truly was a competition between three all-world players that came Cheap China Jerseys down to the wire. On April 6, 2010, five days before the end of the regular season, all three players scored (Ovechkin scored twice), leaving Ovechkin and Crosby with 48 goals apiece and Stamkos with 47.

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Rangers want to trade Yu Darvish, then sign him again

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I know what you’re thinking. But I miss baseball! and Four days without Cheap Authentic Jerseys games that count is too many! Well, you’re being selfish. There. I said it. Someone has to.

Players don’t get that many days off throughout the season — it was even a topic the MLB Players Association brought up during the last collective bargaining agreement negotiations. And things kick off in February in spring training, too, so the season is longer than just April through September — and even longer still if a team makes the postseason.

Now if you’re one of the many All-Stars selected in a given year, you don’t even get those four days off. You’re flying into whatever city is hosting the game following your afternoon game on Sunday, put through a day of media availability and whatever activities MLB has planned for you, and then play in the Cheap China Jerseys All-Star Game and maybe even the Home Run Derby. That doesn’t sound like much of a break.

Players need a longer break, but fans could use it, too. Sure, it seems hard on Thursday night when you need the baseball fix you’re used to, but it’s the (non-mathematical) halfway point of the season. Take in the first half, give yourself time to relax and reset, and go see a movie or something. Spider-Man: Homecoming was great, and I’m particularly thrilled with Sony/Marvel’s decision not to make the titular character’s struggle involve The Plight of the Entire World. More of that in the future, y’all. Not everything needs to be apocalyptic to get your audience invested.

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MLB trade rumor grades: Sonny Gray to the Astros?

‘Tis the season for trade deadline rumors. They’re flying around like June bugs, they are, and you keep swatting at them, but they keep coming. You need to figure out which ones are just June bugs and which ones are secretly chocolate June bugs that are covered in foil, edible, and delicious. We’re here to Cheap Authentic Jerseys help you by grading …

Let me start over. Webster’s defines rumor as …

Whatever, forget the introduction. We’re here to grade trade rumors. This one is about Sonny Gray and the Houston Astros. Jon Morosi says things are heating up. Which, whoa, maybe I’ll turn off this MLB Network broadcast and switch to Cinemax for the updates.

The Home Run Derby participants were announced on Monday night, with four players from each league slated for the July 10 power display. The American Leaguers are Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge — the major league leader in home runs — as well as Sanchez, Minnesota Twins slugger Miguel Sano and Kansas City Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas.

Morrison is hitting .256/.366/.579 this season with 24 home runs, tied with Moustakas for third in the AL, behind only Judge and Houston Astros outfielder George Springer. Sano has 20 home runs.

Springer declined an invitation to the Derby, as did his Astros teammate Carlos Correa, the AL All-Star starting shortstop with 17 home runs under his belt.

On Tuesday, Morrison expressed disappointment by not getting selected for the Home Run Derby. But he seemed resigned to his fate.

The next home run Cody Bellinger hits will give him as many home runs as any Giants hitter has hit in a season since Barry Bonds left. Corey Seager will be an MVP candidate Cheap College Basketball Jerseys for the next 10 years, and Justin Turner is somehow getting even better at age 32.

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Penguins’ Sidney Crosby hits Sabres’ Ryan O’Reilly where it really hurts

What do Penguins center Sidney Crosby and Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green have in common? Video evidence shows them both taking a cheap shot at another man’s Cheap Dog Jerseys cojones.

If you didn’t take Spanish, that’s the delicate area between a man’s legs.

It’s cool, though. After striking O’Reilly, Crosby scored an insane highlight-reel goal later in the period. He now leads the NHL with 41 goals and is second in points only to the Oilers’ Connor McDavid (82) with 81 points.

But a year later, Crosby and the Penguins were right back in the Cup Final, again pitted against the Red Wings. In the rematch, it was Crosby and Co. who got the better of Detroit, taking the series 4-3. Crosby produced the bulk of his playoff scoring prior to the Detroit series, with 28 points in 17 games. He finished the Cup Final with a goal and two assists going up against Hall of Fame defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom.

Crosby has scored plenty of highlight-reel goals during his career, but this one against the Canadiens was especially special. After skating into a crowd of four Montreal players, Crosby muscled his way into a pocket of open ice and, while falling down, swatted the puck past David Aebischer (the top play in the video below).

Crosby’s foil since he was selected first in the 2005 NHL Draft has been Alex Ovechkin. Taken with the first pick by the Capitals a year earlier, Crosby and Ovechkin debuted the same year following the 2005 lockout. The two superstars have always been compared to each other, marketed next to each Cheap Elite Jerseys other, and each matchup — in the NHL or internationally — the narrative is always Crosby vs. Ovechkin.