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The Vancouver Canucks enter the 2014-15 NHL season with a fresh mindset, after a lost season the previous year.

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The Vancouver Canucks enter the 2014-15 NHL season with a fresh mindset, after a lost season the previous year. Matt Murray Jersey . And the new-look Canucks get their first crack at game action tonight in Calgary. TSN1040 pregame show is at 5:00, John Shorthouse and Dave Tomlinson have the call at 7:00. The Canucks struggled through a 36-35-11 season last year, enduring a 1-10-1 stretch in January and February and closing with a 2-5-0 finish. They were 12th in the Western Conference to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2007-08. The rollercoaster ride also saw goalie Roberto Luongo finally be traded, while GM Mike Gillis and coach John Tortorella both lost their jobs. Later in the offseason, centre Ryan Kesler was shipped to Anaheim. But that turnover has left the Canucks hungry for change. Franchise icon Trevor Linden has returned to the club as President, and Linden has added new management pieces in GM Jim Benning and coach Willie Desjardins. All three are rookies in their current roles, but they havena€?t been shy to imprint their views on the Canucks roster. Goalie Ryan Miller was quickly signed to a three-year deal worth $18million in free-agency, centre Nick Bonino and defenseman Luca Sbisa were added in the Kesler trade, while forward Radim Vrbata, Linden Vey, and Derek Dorsett were also picked up over the summer via free-agency and trades. The end result is a Canucks roster that still relies heavily on its old core of the Sedins, Kevin Bieksa, Dan Hamhuis, and Alex Edler, but has refreshed a bit with some new blood. A promised youth infusion may still be a year away, with Nicklas Jensen and Hunter Shinkaruk sent to the AHLa€?s Utica Comets, but 2013 top pick Bo Horvat remains with the big club. Horvat will not play against the Flames, due to injury. Kevin Bieksa is also a question mark with injury, but Bieksa traveled to Calgary and will take the pregame skate. The Flames are also coming off a season without playoffs, as Calgary finished 13th in the West in 2013-14. That resulted in the Flames grabbing Sam Bennett with the fourth overall pick, but Bennett is out longterm with a shoulder injury that may require surgery. Calgary also added starting goalie Jonas Hiller in the offseason. LIKELY CANUCKS LINES: Sedin-Sedin-Vrbata Higgins-Bonino-Burrows Richardson-Vey-Kassian Dorsett-Matthias-Hansen Hamhuis-Sbisa Edler-Tanev Stanton-Weber/Bieksa PP1: Sedin-Sedin-Vrbata-Vey-Edler PP2: Bonino-Burrows-Higgins-Hamhuis-Tanev Ryan Miller Eddie Lack Conor Sheary Jersey . The weekend at Oriole Park has been less kind, with three players suffering varying degrees of injury. The worst ailment of the three, at least optically, is the deep bone bruise suffered by Adam Lind when he fouled a pitch off the top of his right foot in the sixth inning of Saturdays game. Custom Pittsburgh Penguins Jerseys . So what happens? Stevenson lands a huge left to Dawsons temple only 76 seconds into the opening round and walks away with the championship belt. "I said Id knock him out," said Stevenson (21-1). http://www.hockeypenguins.com/authentic-jake-guentzel-penguins-jersey/ .com) - The NBA will be on display overseas Thursday with the New York Knicks taking on the Milwaukee Bucks at O2 Arena in London. LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Rory McIlroy played the kind of golf Saturday that typically would put him in control at a major championship. Staked to a one-shot lead in the PGA Championship, he made three birdies over his last four holes for a 4-under 67. All that did was allow him to stay in front -- barely. More rain in the morning allowed for a deluge of birdies during a third round so wild that six players had a share of the lead at some point. McIlroy could hear it. The cheers of so many birdies resounding across the back nine made him realize it was time to get it in gear. He rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 15. His approach from 172 yards landed with a splat next to the hole on the 16th for an easy birdie, and he took a one-shot lead over Bernd Wiesberger by getting up-and-down from a front bunker on the par-5 18th. He was at 13-under 200. McIlroy loves the view from the top -- he has won all three of his majors with the lead. "Its not the biggest lead Ive ever had," said McIlroy, who led by eight, three and six shots after 54 holes in his previous major wins. "But Im still in control of this golf tournament. Its a great place to be going into tomorrow." Sunday is shaping up as a thriller, typical of the final major of the year. McIlroy would have reason to feel like a driver in pole position who looks into his rearview mirror at the start of the race. Eight players were within four shots of the lead, a group that includes Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson. Wiesberger closed with three straight birdies -- the three putts were a combined 3 feet, 6 inches -- for a 65. Playing in only his sixth major championship, the 28-year-old Austrian now gets to play in the final group at a major with the No. 1 player in the world. "From now on, its just a bonus, really," Wiesberger said. Fowler, a runner-up in the last two majors and the first player since Tiger Woods to finish among the top five in all three of them, gets one last crack. He played bogey-free for a 67 and was two shots behind. Fowler will be playing in the penultimate group with Mickelson, the five-time major champion who turned his game around with strong finish. Right when he looked to be fading from contention, Lefty turned it on with a long birdie putt on the 14th hole, two more birdies, and then he narrowly missed an eagle putt on the final hole. He had a 67 and was three shots behind. "That birdie putt on 14 was really the one that got me going, because I needed to finishh strong to get back in it," Mickelson said. Joe Mullen Jersey. Mickelson was at 10-under 203 with Jason Day, who played in the final group Saturday and had to settle for a 69. Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Saskatchewan fired a 3-under 68 to get to 8-under par and within five strokes of the lead. He made six birdies and five pars over his last 11 holes of the third round. The PGA Championship does not bill itself as the toughest test in golf. It assembles the best field of the majors and lets them slug it out over four days. Add a super soft course from morning showers, and cheers rained down from every corner. The average score was 69.6, though it felt easier to former Masters champion Adam Scott, one of nine players with a 66 or better. "Doesnt get any easier," said Scott, who was six behind. "Seems like 4 or 5 under is about even par today." For all the birdies, two pars early in the round were important. Day hooked his tee shot so badly on the second hole that it cleared the stream and landed in a bog. It eventually was found in knee-high vegetation. Day had to remove his shoes, roll up his pants and wade across the stream to get there. He blasted across the fairway into the rough, hit wedge onto the green to 8 feet and made it. The tee was moved forward on the par-4 fourth hole, making it play 292 holes. Seven players made eagle. McIlroy was not one of them. He hooked his tee shot into the woods and had to take a penalty drop to get a clear look at the green. McIlroy made a 12-footer for par to stay in the lead, and he made birdie on the next hole. Back and forth it went all day. Fowler, Day, Wiesberger and even Ryan Palmer (69) and Jim Furyk took turns joining McIlroy atop the leaderboard. Through it all, Boy Wonder never fell back. "It wasnt as easy as I expected it to be out there today," McIlroy said. "They tucked a few pins away, and obviously playing with the lead, you maybe cant play with the freedom as if youre chasing. But really happy with how I finished. To shoot another 67 without really having some of my best stuff for the round was really pleasing." And thats what makes it hard on everyone else chasing him Sunday. McIlroy is coming off a wire-to-wire win at the British Open and rallied to win a World Golf Championship in his next start. He goes after a third straight victory from a familiar position -- in the lead. Unlike his other three majors, he has hardly any margin for error and a lot more players chasing him. Wholesale Jerseys China NFL Jerseys China Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys 2019 Discount Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Throwback Jerseys ' ' '

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