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Short shifts: High-end NHL teams typically loaded with stud defenncemen
- Los Angeles Kings head coach Darryl Sutter on the value of high-end defencemen: “The best teams in the league have four defencemen who could be everybody else’s Nos. 1 and 2. It’s not minutes played...
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Canada can’t afford to not have exuberant Subban on Olympic team
If you thought there was an outcry when Bobby Ryan (four 30-goal seasons) didn’t make Team USA for the Sochi Olympics, watch the shots blowing hard if P.K. Subban doesn’t make Canada’s squad. But it...
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SHORT SHIFTS
Anaheim Ducks assistant general manager David McNab admits that the Ryan Getzlaf-Corey Perry tag-team is something special 10 years after they were both drafted after the 15th pick in Round 1 in 2003....
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Shorts shifts: Oilers can go Faulk or Subban routes for new Justin Schultz deal
- If the Edmonton Oilers give Justin Schultz a long-term deal like they did Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle, they’ll probably use Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Justin Faulk’s new...
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Short Shifts: Tyler Myers stands tall again for Buffalo Sabres
Tyler Myers’s game in Buffalo has picked up considerably this year because Josh Gorges is mentoring him, but as one pro scout said, “how can a guy playing those minutes (24-1/2 per game) have no...
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Edmonton Oilers options on defence dwindling as teams lock up likely candidates
If Peter Chiarelli had any hair to pull out, he might be yanking it out in clumps the last few days with Anaheim signing right-shooting defencemen Sami Vatanen to a huge deal and Colorado saying their...
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Oilers Game Day: Ducks biggest test yet
Edmonton Oilers (9-6-1) at Anaheim Ducks (7-6-3); 8 p.m., TV: Sportsnet, radio: 630 CHED The Oilers are 2-3 in their last five games and are coming off a trio of losses — 3-1 to the New York Rangers on...
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Oilers' Matt Benning and Ducks' Josh Manson roomed together on road in college
ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s a small world after all, and we’re not just talking about the song and kid’s ride at Disneyland a few miles down the road from the Honda Center, where the Ducks call home....
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Eight positives & eight negatives for Oilers against Ducks
Mike Johnson of the NHL Network is picking the Anaheim Ducks over the Edmonton Oilers in six or seven games. Pierre Lebrun of ESPN has the Ducks in seven. Two sharp gents there. Hate to say it, but...
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Few personify Masterton qualities more than Andrew Cogliano
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Former Edmonton Oilers first-round draft pick Andrew Cogliano might not be the favourite for the Masterton trophy because Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson has been playing while...
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Ducks Brandon Montour a two-sport athlete
ANAHEIM — The scrum around Anaheim Ducks defenceman Sami Vatanen was six deep Friday morning with everybody keen for a medical bulletin on his suspected sore shoulder. At the other end of the dressing...
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