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OTTAWA Authentic Lance McCullers Jersey , Ontario (AP) Tom Anselmi is out as the Ottawa Senators’ president and CEO.

The team said Friday that Anselmi, who was hired Jan. 27, 2017 Leighton Vander Esch Super Bowl LI Jersey , will be ”vacating his position.” The Senators also announced a three-year extension for general manager Pierre Dorion, saying the team’s goal remains to win a Stanley Cup.

”Having come within one goal of last season’s Stanley Cup Final, we were hopeful entering this season Dorance Armstrong Jr. Super Bowl LI Jersey ,” Senators owner Eugene Melnyk said in the team’s release. ”Obviously, our results have challenged those expectations. What remains unchanged is the dedication that goes into evaluating every aspect of this organization.”

Anselmi replaced Cyril Leeder, one of the founders of the Ottawa franchise Authentic Thomas Rawls Jersey , when he was hired as president and CEO just over a year ago.

The Toronto native worked for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for 17 years before joining the Senators. He was promoted to COO of MLSE in 1999 – the year Toronto moved from Maple Leaf Gardens to Air Canada Centre. Anselmi was named president of MLSE in 2012 and left the company in September, 2013.

Melnyk and the Senators are in the early stages of a potential move from their current suburban arena to a new downtown space that Melnyk has called ”critical” to the franchise’s success moving forward.

Ottawa is 19-25-9 this season.

”Today’s announcement reflects a renewed commitment to scouting, drafting and development Lorenzo Carter Jersey Elite ,” Melnyk said. ”It may require changes to our lineup. Rest assured, we will only tolerate pain with an end game in mind: building an organization that wins – at all levels – year in and year out.”

OTTAWA Authentic Lance McCullers Jersey , Ontario (AP) Tom Anselmi is out as the Ottawa Senators’ president and CEO.

The team said Friday that Anselmi, who was hired Jan. 27, 2017 Leighton Vander Esch Super Bowl LI Jersey , will be ”vacating his position.” The Senators also announced a three-year extension for general manager Pierre Dorion, saying the team’s goal remains to win a Stanley Cup.

”Having come within one goal of last season’s Stanley Cup Final, we were hopeful entering this season Dorance Armstrong Jr. Super Bowl LI Jersey ,” Senators owner Eugene Melnyk said in the team’s release. ”Obviously, our results have challenged those expectations. What remains unchanged is the dedication that goes into evaluating every aspect of this organization.”

Anselmi replaced Cyril Leeder, one of the founders of the Ottawa franchise Authentic Thomas Rawls Jersey , when he was hired as president and CEO just over a year ago.

The Toronto native worked for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for 17 years before joining the Senators. He was promoted to COO of MLSE in 1999 – the year Toronto moved from Maple Leaf Gardens to Air Canada Centre. Anselmi was named president of MLSE in 2012 and left the company in September, 2013.

Melnyk and the Senators are in the early stages of a potential move from their current suburban arena to a new downtown space that Melnyk has called ”critical” to the franchise’s success moving forward.

Ottawa is 19-25-9 this season.

”Today’s announcement reflects a renewed commitment to scouting, drafting and development Lorenzo Carter Jersey Elite ,” Melnyk said. ”It may require changes to our lineup. Rest assured, we will only tolerate pain with an end game in mind: building an organization that wins – at all levels – year in and year out.”

NEW YORK (AP) The Rangers face an unfamiliar challenge after stockpiling picks for the June draft: Maximizing a franchise-record 10 selections Wholesale Anthony Averett Jersey , including three in the first round.

Rebuilding means keeping options open for trades while also targeting players who best fit the team’s goals.

Assistant general manager Chris Drury says the team’s priorities are adding young, competitive players with speed and skill and ”a premium on high character.”

”It’s one thing to have all these great picks … you have to be ready and be prepared to make the right picks Wholesale Josh Sitton Jersey ,” Drury said.

The 10 picks are a high for the Rangers under the draft’s current format of seven rounds. The team also has nine picks in the 2019 draft, including a conditional first-round selection from Tampa Bay it received in a trade-deadline blockbuster for defenseman Ryan McDonagh.

New York also dealt Nick Holden and Rick Nash to Boston Adidas Justin Faulk Jersey , plus Michael Grabner to New Jersey in four separate deals, bringing back eight players and six draft picks.

General manager Jeff Gorton said the picks give the Rangers flexibility and currency.

”We have to look at both scenarios Authentic Rashaan Evans Jersey ,” he said when asked if he would be willing to trade picks for current NHL players.

”We’ll look at different positions and see what’s available. When you have three first-round picks and you’re on the draft floor, opportunity will be there Brandon Parker Jersey Elite ,” Gorton said.

The playoffs and draft lottery will shape the value of the first-round selections. Swedish defenseman Rasmus Dahlin is the consensus pick among experts as the top overall draft pick this year, and New York’s other first-round picks will depend on how Boston and Tampa Bay perform in the playoffs. Both could be serious Stanley Cup contenders.

Team officials like the early returns even for an organization that has been known to sacrifice its future for the present.

”Certainly a lot of energy moving forward to prep between now and getting to the stage in Dallas Nyheim Hines Jersey Elite ,” Drury said of the site of June’s draft.

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BLOOMINGTON Wholesale Deadrin Senat Jersey , Minn. (AP) Eli Manning is looking ahead. Who wouldn’t after the year he just had?

Manning comes off the worst season of his professional career that dates back to being the top overall selection in the 2004 draft. His Giants went from likely contender after making the 2016 playoffs to one of the NFL’s worst.

They were ravaged by injuries, dissension in the locker room, and then-coach Ben McAdoo even benched his quarterback in Week 13, ending Manning’s 210-game starting string.

McAdoo was fired the next week, the usually well-run franchise was embarrassed as badly as for any of the 13 defeats in 2017, and though Manning immediately got his job back, the Giants ended the year as one of the NFL’s biggest flops.

”It was a great reminder that nothing is guaranteed Wholesale Jordan Akins Jersey ,” Manning said Friday. ”No matter what you did the year before – win your division, make the playoffs, whatever – it has no effect on the next year.

”So there’s no reason we can’t win 11 or more games this year. We made a lot of changes and will make more, and if we stay healthy and win some of those close games you always get in, who knows?”

Besides, that lost season serves as an impetus for the future.

”When you have a tough year, you use it as motivation Wholesale Denzel Ward Jersey ,” he said. ”Get back in there and do whatever you need to do to make changes. Make a commitment again to playing at a higher level. It challenges you and makes you hungrier.”

The two-time Super Bowl MVP has a new coach in Pat Shurmur, who like McAdoo has a background as a QB guru. Unlike the rough-edged McAdoo, though, Shurmur has a smoother style and also is more open in his thinking and planning for running an offense.

To Manning, 37, an opportunity to expand the attack is much welcomed.

”We’ve talked a bit, getting to know each other Authentic Johnny Pesky Jersey , but there’s a limit how much you can meet and talk,” Manning said.

”I am excited to start learning the offense and the playbook and how Pat will use our skillsets. He’s got a combination of Norv Turner, Andy Reid and Chip Kelly in there from the places he’s been.

”There’s definitely an adjustment, but if you’ve played the game long enough, there are only so many new plays you can put in.”

Manning smiled when he said that, knowing Shurmur isn’t about to design a Russell Wilson/Cam Newton type of offense for him.

There’s been much speculation that Manning could be traded and the Giants would use the second overall pick in April on one of the highly rated quarterbacks in this draft. The choice of Shurmur and ownership’s devotion to Manning seems to have made Manning’s departure unlikely.

Asked if he’d encourage new general manager Dave Gettleman to take an offensive lineman to offer the kind of protection he doesn’t get often enough, Manning laughed and replied Geron Christian Super Bowl LI Jersey , ”I won’t complain.”

He certainly won’t complain about getting back his prime target, Odell Beckham Jr. The spectacular receiver was lost in early October to a broken ankle. Beckham is enough of a difference maker that New York might have had a few more victories had he been available all season.

”He’s a tremendous player, and when he gets back and is healthy, he impacts games,” Manning said. ”It’s tough when guys you work with all spring and summer and you lose them and have all new guys. Odell, Brandon (Marshall), Sterling (Shepard).”

Manning spent part of the day welcoming visitors to a Courtyard by Marriott experience whose contest winners will spend Saturday night sleeping in a luxury suite at U.S. Bank Stadium.

He joked that he can’t ever remember sleeping in a stadium Adidas Tyler Seguin Jersey , but that waking up the morning of the Super Bowl at the venue would be ”pretty neat to do.”

Then he wondered just how quiet the stadium would be on Super Bowl eve.

”You’re right there in the dome and get to see all the behind-the-scenes stuff,” he said. ”Then you wake up on Super Bowl Sunday right there. Has to be a wonderful experience.”

Considering he is 2-0 in the big game, Manning knows about wonderful Super Bowl experiences.

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Fact is, Rutgers’s Anthony Cioffi and BYU’s Micah Hannemann were the only white corners to start for a BCS school recently. Cioffi had earned his way into that coveted corner spot after a stellar high school career in Springfield, N.J., where his family runs a popular deli established 60 years ago by Anthony’s Italian immigrant grandparents, and by winning the 2012 state title in the 100 meters with a time of 10.86. In the spirit of Italian sprinter Piettro Mennea, who in 1979 broke the world 200 record by running it in 19.72 (still the best time by a nonblack athlete), Cioffi defeated the favorite in that state title race, Anthony Averett, who now starts at cornerback for Alabama.

“I do think it will end Kevin Hogan Jersey Elite ,” Cioffi said of the Sehorn streak. “God willing, when my four years [at Rutgers] come up, I’ll get a shot at it.” But that was two years ago, before Cioffi and Hannemann were each moved to safety.

Then again, Ethan Kilmer played corner in the NFL without playing a single snap at the position at Penn State. Kilmer’s claim to fame at State College: all the times he humored his teammates by leaping and touching the 12-foot ceiling in the locker room. The Bengals drafted the explosive but raw receiver in the seventh round in 2006, and in Week 11 of that season, with Kaesviharn starting at safety for a secondary wracked by injuries, Kilmer watched from the sideline as Cincinnati’s last healthy corner, Keiwan Ratliff, was hurt returning a punt. That’s how Kilmer got shoved onto the field to play a position he had only dabbled at in practice—except now he was going against the Saints’ league-best passing offense.

On second-and-short Wholesale Tracy Walker Jersey , Drew Brees tried to dump a pass to a running back out in the flat, but the former Penn State walk-on intercepted Brees with nothing but green turf in front of him. A diving Brees almost caught Kilmer at the 20, which would have heaped shame on the tiny fraternity he didn’t realize he had just joined, but Kilmer scooted by and thus turned his first snap as an NFL cornerback into a 52-yard touchdown.

“Forget starting,” Dustin Fox says. “That’s no longer the goal. Forget getting snaps. Just get a practice rep. Just make the team! Just be on the roster with CORNERBACK next to your name instead of SAFETY.”

Lisowski couldn’t get there inside a Trojan Horse, as Kilmer did. Lisowski was a committed corner. He still remembers arriving for work on Aug. 26, 2012, and going through his ritual of checking Seattle’s special teams depth chart, which he had been climbing. But that day his name wasn’t on the sheet at all. Maybe the Seahawks had caught on to the right-shoulder injury he’d suffered during his first practice that spring. (“I tried to hide it, but they had to know I was in the training room every morning.”) Whatever the reason James Daniels Jersey Elite , he was politely asked to turn in his iPad and told to stay in shape because someone else was sure to call him soon.

Eighteen months and zero calls later, as Lisowski watched Sherman and fellow corner Walter Thurmond leave Super Bowl XLVIII with injuries, he was surprised to feel the same butterflies behind his ribs that he used to feel when he was about to run onto the field. He thought he had gotten over it.

“I could have played in the NFL,” says Lisowski, who is still in top condition due to his recent enlistment in the Navy, where he will work as a medical corpsman. “I proved in the most competitive practice environment in the league, working with the best secondary in the league, that even with one good arm, I’m right there with them.” He turned down a CFL contract after Seattle released him, then he dabbled in Arena and semi-pro ball before realizing “there’s more to life than getting to the NFL. I proved to myself that I can compete at that level Wholesale Richard Rodgers Jersey , and that’s all that matters.” A few months later, knowing that 4.38 speed doesn’t grow on trees, he reconsiders. “Did some thinking. … Interested in playing again,” he texts.

Pending that, the status quo holds. The successors to Pat Fischer (56 NFL interceptions from 1961 through ’77) are as difficult to find as Bobby Fischer. The league’s next Roger Wehrli (one of two white corners in the Hall of Fame) might as well be named Shirley.

“Forget starting,” says Fox. “That’s no longer the goal. Forget getting snaps. Just get a practice rep. Just make the team! Just be on the roster with CORNERBACK next to your name instead of SAFETY.”

Mueller, the bleached Richard Sherman clone, married a Stanford track star with whom he plans to start a family, so one might imagine that he has thought about siring the next Sehorn. “My wife is African-American,” he says with a laugh Wholesale Calvin Ridley Jersey , “so I don’t think it would count.”

Maybe a white cornerback will emerge from all the attention that Mueller’s college teammate has brought to the position over the past few years. Sherman has made playing corner cool again, the way Deion Sanders did after his selection by the Falcons in the 1989 draft pushed (white) cornerback Scott Case to safety for the remainder of his Atlanta career.

Any kid out there who’s pulling on a pair of Sherman’s Iversonesque forearm sheaths to start the revolution might want to know that, for road games, Sherman prefers his sleeves white.

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FOXBOROUGH Nathan Shepherd Jersey Elite , Mass. (AP) The New England Patriots added to their recent domination over the Miami Dolphins. Tom Brady and company are starting to look like the team to beat in the AFC – again.

Brady, looking like an MVP candidate at age 40, tossed four touchdown passes to help the Patriots roll to a 35-17 victory Sunday.

It was New England’s seventh straight win. Next up is a closing stretch of four division opponents in five games.

The Patriots also have won at least nine games for 17 consecutive seasons. That is the most consecutive winning seasons since the 1970 merger.

”I was a kid growing up in San Mateo when the (San Francisco 49ers) were doing that too,” Brady said. ”The expectations are really high because of what teams in the past have done and I think the guys that come and sit in these chairs right here and look up at coach (Bill) Belichick and understand kind of what we’re playing for and the history of the team.”

One of New England’s final five games will be a second meeting against Miami (4-7) in two weeks Authentic Randall Telfer Jersey , a team that has now lost five straight overall and nine consecutive times in New England by a combined score of 290-126.

The Dolphins’ season isn’t a total lost cause yet, but it’s certainly nearing that tipping point as they slosh through their worst losing streak since 2011 .

Coach Adam Gase said he believes there is still fight in his team.

”I think they are still battling,” he said. ”That’s the frustrating part, more than anything. And it’s not translating to Sunday. …They have to trust what they are being told and do exactly what they are supposed to do and that’s when we will start having better results.”

It will be even tougher going forward. With starting quarterback Jay Cutler continuing to work his way back from the concussion protocol Jonathan Cooper Jersey Elite , the Dolphins also lost running back Damien Williams on Sunday. He was carted off the field in the third quarter with a shoulder injury.

ROUGH START

Miami quarterback Matt Moore struggled to find a rhythm in his second start of the season. He completed 23 of 34 passes for 215 yards and a touchdown, but also had two interceptions. He was sacked seven times.

”Obviously going to have to reevaluate where we are at right now,” Gase said. ”Probably have to move some pieces around. I don’t even know how bad everyone is right now.”

REDUCED PENALTIES

Miami entered Sunday as the second-most penalized team in the NFL, committing 84 penalties in its first 10 games.

It had only six for 52 yards against the Patriots Authentic Dallas Goedert Jersey , but two of them helped set up New England’s third score of the game.

”There’s self-inflicted wounds that kind of reared their ugly heads,” defensive lineman Cameron Wake said. ”They cost you plays, which in turn cost you position on the field, which in turn costs you points on the board. And DaeSean Hamilton Jersey Elite , obviously, that sways the course of the game.”

BATTERED BRADY

Moore wasn’t the only player taking some hits on Sunday.

Though Brady was only sacked once by the Dolphins defense, he took eight total hits.

He acknowledged after the game that he was expecting Miami’s defense to try to rough him up.

”Yeah, I definitely took some shots. They’re a tough D-line Authentic Derrius Guice Jersey ,” Brady said. ”They’ve obviously made a lot of investments in that group and those guys play really hard. … They got some good shots on me today but I’ll be back at it and be ready to go Wednesday.”

RARE TURNOVERS

Brady’s interception and his fumbled snap that was returned for a touchdown were the Patriots’ first turnovers since their Oct. 15 win over the Jets.

Brady had just two interceptions in 2016.

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ASHBURN Authentic Kerry Wood Jersey , Va. (AP) No team in the NFL has faced a tougher schedule so far than the Washington Redskins.

Through nine games, Redskins opponents have a combined record of 52-30, and four of Washington’s five losses have come against first-place teams. They bear the scars from that rough road, but don’t want to be graded on a curve.

”You benefit if you can get those games and then you win them,” tight end Vernon Davis said Wednesday. ”But you make it tough on yourself when you don’t win. You put yourself in a position to fall short.”

Washington is 4-5, with victories against the top two teams in the NFC West. But the schedule doesn’t get any easier Sunday at the New Orleans Saints (7-2) Alex Cappa Jersey Elite , who have won seven in a row and lead the NFC South.

It’s the latest high-pressure test for a team accustomed to being the underdog.

”Nobody said we were going into Seattle and win, either,” running back Chris Thompson. The Redskins need to ”just be the team that we know we’re capable of being. The results can fall either way.”

Quarterback Kirk Cousins knows results can fall either way and for some time has said there’s not much difference between 10-6 and 6-10 teams because of the thin margin of error. But the Redskins have shown they could push the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, and don’t consider any opponent to be out of their league.

”We’ve stood toe to toe with a lot of good teams in this league,” Cousins said. ”In some of those tight games we’ve come out on top, and some of them we haven’t. Hopefully here in this stretch of seven games Dontae Johnson Super Bowl LI Jersey , we can be the ones that come out on top.”

After letting a game slip away last week against Minnesota, the Redskins cannot afford another inconsistent performance like that as they try to remain in the NFC wild-card hunt. Defensive lineman Ziggy Hood considers each game a ”redemption week,” with sights set on more than just contending with top teams.

”We’re always going to have the confidence of going out there and playing like that,” Hood said. ”We’ve just got to finish.”

Sometimes the Redskins have finished. And sometimes they haven’t. Regardless, injuries have piled up.

Coach Jay Gruden figures time will tell whether the tough schedule will pay dividends down the stretch.

”This is a week-to-week league, for sure Jeremy Kerley Jersey Elite ,” Gruden said. ”As far as how that will treat us later in the season, we’ll have to wait and see.”

NOTES: LT Trent Williams (knee), TE Jordan Reed (hamstring) and WR Jamison Crowder (personal reasons) didn’t practice Wednesday. Gruden said Reed is ”progressing” and the team will know more about Williams on Thursday. … LB Zach Brown (Achilles tendon), OT T.J. Clemmings (ankle), WR Ryan Grant and TE Niles Paul (concussion), S DeAngelo Hall Authentic Matt Kemp Jersey , RG Brandon Scherff and DL Anthony Lanier (knee), C Spencer Long (knees), LG Shawn Lauvao (stinger), S Montae Nicholson (shoulder) and DL Matt Ioannidis (hand) were all limited at practice. Gruden thinks Ioannidis has a chance to play against the Saints. … RB Samaje Perine will get the bulk of the carries after Rob Kelley was placed on injured reserve with knee and ankle injuries. The team signed Byron Marshall off the Eagles’ practice squad to be the third running back. … After putting Will Compton on IR, the Redskins signed LB Zach Vigil, who was in camp and then spent time on Buffalo’s practice squad.

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ANAHEIM Derrius Guice Super Bowl LI Jersey , Calif. (AP) No expansion team in NHL history has put together a streak like the one the Vegas Golden Knights are enjoying.

Cody Eakin scored to snap a second-period tie and Vegas beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 on Wednesday night for its fifth consecutive victory.

Vegas defenseman Shea Theodore scored against his former team for the first time and William Karlsson also had a goal for the Golden Knights (24-9-2), who lead the Western Conference with 50 points. They’ve earned at least one in 10 straight games by going 9-0-1 during that stretch.

It’s the longest point streak for a team in its inaugural season, eclipsing the record of nine games in a row set by the 1993-94 Florida Panthers (5-0-4).

”It’s one game at a time and that’s a great thing for us, and we try and battle and work hard every night and tonight we found a way Tarvarius Moore Super Bowl LI Jersey ,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. ”We didn’t start the game off great. I thought the first eight minutes we were sloppy but after that I thought we played a great game and a great road game and we found a way to get two big points.”

Malcolm Subban made 27 saves for the Golden Knights, and David Perron added an empty-net goal.

Rickard Rakell scored early for the Ducks, who won their previous two games. John Gibson stopped 24 shots as Anaheim opened a three-game homestand that follows a six-game road trip.

”They frustrated us. We found ways to self-destruct,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said.

After a slow first period in which they were outshot 15-8 and allowed the first goal in the opening two minutes Antonio Callaway Jersey Elite , the Golden Knights took over in the second and third.

At the 15:12 mark of the second period, Eakin jumped out of the penalty box, beat Ducks defenseman Hampus Lindholm down the ice and then Gibson with a shot through his legs to give Vegas a 2-1 lead.

Just 28 seconds into the third, Karlsson took a feed from Jonathan Marchessault and sent a shot past Gibson to make it 3-1.

”It’s a hard building to come into Wholesale Natrell Jamerson Jersey ,” Eakin said. ”You know they’re going to come out strong and fast and put everything behind you. You know at that point when they have the momentum in the first you want to just manage it, get your legs back, continue to do the little things, get it in deep.”

The Ducks fired 13 shots on goal in the last two periods combined and bemoaned how they didn’t match Vegas’ intensity after the first frame. Rakell’s team-leading 11th goal was all Anaheim could muster.

”They raised their level of play and we didn’t Authentic Chad Thomas Jersey ,” forward Ryan Getzlaf said. ”Most of all, we quit playing. Simple as that. We didn’t come out and play with the urgency we needed to after those first 12, 14 minutes of the hockey game, which is weird.”

NOTES: Ducks forward Ryan Kesler played in his first game of the season following summer hip surgery. He was held without a point and took three shots on goal. … Referee Dan O’Rourke took part in his 1 Authentic Archie Bradley Jersey ,000th NHL game.

UP NEXT

Golden Knights: Head down the freeway to face the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.

Ducks: The Calgary Flames visit the Honda Center on Friday, their first game in the building since ending a 29-game losing streak there.

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DETROIT — The New York Rangers will be without one of their best players when they play the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.

The team announced Thursday that forward Chris Kreider will be out indefinitely with a blood clot in his right arm. He was having more tests done.

Kreider Da'Ron Payne Jersey Elite , who had 11 goals and 22 points in 37 games this season, left Wednesday night’s win over the Washington Capitals after the first period, in which he played 5:04.

“The only thing that I know is, just before the first period he felt some swelling in his arm,” Rangers coach Alain Vigneault told the New York Daily News on Thursday. “Docs checked him out Authentic Logan Forsythe Jersey , didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Then in between the first and second, it got to a point where this was out of the ordinary. So they sent him to the hospital and found it out.”

According to the New York Post, Kreider, 26, will likely miss six-to-eight weeks.

New York recalled forward Vinni Lettieri from the Rangers’ American Hockey League affiliate.

The Rangers will visit the Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena.

The teams have a history of playing close Wholesale Cordy Glenn Jersey , low-scoring games against each other.

Eight of the past 14 games between them have been decided in overtime, with New York winning six times; 16 of the past 19 between the clubs have been decided by one goal.

New York (20-13-4) has won three in a row in the series, including a 2-1 OT victory at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 24.

Goalie Henrik Lundqvist has a better career goals-against average (1.90) and save percentage (.938) against the Red Wings than any other team. He is 13-7-4 against Detroit, including four shutouts.

The Rangers got a little practice in the above-mentioned kind of games in their win Wednesday, a 1-0 shootout victory over the Washington Capitals at Madison Square Garden.

Backup goalie Ondrej Pavelec made 30 saves for his first shutout since March 22 Ed Dickson Jersey Elite , 2016, and Mika Zibanejad and Mats Zuccarello scored in the shootout. Pavelec stopped T.J. Oshie and Alex Ovechkin.

Detroit (13-16-7) lost 3-1 in New Jersey on Wednesday night. The Red Wings have lost three in a row and have won only three of their past 16 games.

The Wings have scored only one goal in each of their past two games and are 0-for-7 on the power play.

Rookie forward Tyler Bertuzzi will start the game on the top line with center Henrik Zetterberg and right winger Gustav Nyquist. Bertuzzi will also replace right winger Anthony Mantha as the net-front presence on the second power-play unit.

“It’s an honor playing with Zetterberg, and then Gus is always on his line for a reason,” Bertuzzi said on www.mlive.com. “They have good chemistry and hopefully I can bring energy to the line.”

Bertuzzi was called up from AHL Grand Rapids to replace forward Luke Glendening, who is out for about a month after suffering an upper-body injury in a 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers last week.

Mantha Bo Scarbrough Jersey Elite , who has three goals and two assists in his past 17 games, will start on a line with center Dylan Larkin and left winger Tomas Tatar.

“I think Mantha and Larks have had some success together,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. “So, we’ll see how it goes.”

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Tom Brady has never lost in Minnesota Authentic Larry Doby Jersey , with his latest game in the land of lakes this weekend at the Super Bowl of course looming as the largest yet.

Well, long before all this football success, Brady actually endured a couple of memorable failures in the state. They came during those treasured visits to his family’s farm outside the tiny town of Browerville.

First, there was his grandfather’s dog, Tippy. Little Tommy ignored the advice of his elders one day and decided to feed Tippy a bone.

”I bent down to give him a kiss, and he bit through my lip,” Brady said. ”That was pretty rough.”

Then there was his ill-fated debut with chewing tobacco, which he persuaded his uncles to let him sample during the half-hour ride back to the farm from their fishing expedition on the lake.

”They said, `Look, if we give it to you Authentic Tremaine Edmunds Jersey , you can’t spit it out until you get home,’ Of course they give it to me, and within five minutes I’m outside of the car, throwing up all over the place,” Brady said. ”And I don’t think I’ve had much chewing tobacco since then.”

Brady spent plenty more time in central Minnesota as he aged into a star quarterback and eventually one of the most famous people on the planet. He still makes a priority to visit in the offseasons with his wife and children, trying to continue a tradition he reflected upon fondly and often during news conferences this week.

”I’ve come here my entire life since I was a baby. I’ve been coming to Minnesota in summers and winters. I loved the experience. I loved the life here,” Brady said. ”Some of my greatest memories as a kid were coming here and milking cows with my grandpa; hanging out in his silos and in the haystack above his barn; going out to where he would pasteurize the milk and pull the cream off the top of the milk in the morning; and shooting his (.22-caliber rifle) at targets in the backyard, and catching sunfish with my uncles. It was great. I love being here. It’s a great state. Obviously, I love the people. Being that my mom’s from here, I’m proud of that.”

Galynn Johnson was the middle child between two boys Authentic Joel Iyiegbuniwe Jersey , the 1961 homecoming queen at Browerville High School who moved to California and met Tom Brady, who would later add senior to his name when a certain five-time Super Bowl winner was born. The couple returned to Todd County, where the prairie meets the forest a little less than a 2+-hour drive northwest of downtown Minneapolis, in 1969 for their wedding.

Brady and the Patriots will play the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, when several family members will be in attendance at U.S. Bank Stadium.

”These tickets are pretty tough to come by,” Brady said. ”But I’m trying my best to accommodate everyone. It is very special.”

The group will include Paul Johnson, who at age 50 is 10 years older than his quarterback cousin. He’s an entrepreneur who has stayed around his whole life. After CBS announcer Jim Nantz mentioned Browerville to Brady during New England’s AFC championship celebration, Johnson has been the subject of a barrage of media coverage that’s highly unusual for a quiet burg of 793 people.

”It’s fun. I wouldn’t want to be a celebrity, I know that,” Johnson said Wholesale Minkah Fitzpatrick Jersey , conducting an interview with The Associated Press from his ice-fishing shack on one of the region’s bounty of frozen lakes, with the clinking of his propane tank audible in the background. ”We’re just so proud of him.”

The Johnsons of Browerville quickly became Patriots fans after Brady was drafted in 2000, veering away from the home-state Vikings.

”We clearly remember the game where Drew Bledsoe got hurt,” Johnson said, ”and the rest is history.”

Johnson’s 22-year-old son, Benton, is a University of St. Thomas senior in St. Paul who was fortunate enough to get on the ticket list for Sunday, too. This will be his first in-person Super Bowl, but he and his 25-year-old sister, Kenley Adidas Corey Crawford Jersey , have been lifelong fans of the Patriots.

”It was probably the coolest thing on earth to say that Tom Brady was your cousin,” said Benton, who always carried photo evidence of his relation to disprove any doubting peers at school.

Even for young Benton, visits to Browerville from the Brady clan made a major impression.

”It was always like, `Mom, when are they coming?”’ Benton said. ”I always told my parents I would move to California because I just loved seeing them and the stories they would tell.”

Brady’s mother underwent breast cancer treatments in 2016 and made a stirring appearance on the field this season before New England’s game against the Atlanta Falcons . Brady has beamed this week every time he’s spoken about his family, proudly reporting that his mom remains cancer free.

”My parents mean everything to me,” Brady said. ”They’ve been here by my side every step of the way.”

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