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ST. LOUIS - The Los Angeles Kings dialed it back to their Stanley Cup run last spring, and put another beating on the St. Louis Blues.

BOSTON - When goalie Parker Milner arrived at Boston College, crosstown rival Boston University was the defending NCAA and Beanpot champion and had earned the area's college hockey bragging rights in 12 of the previous 15 years.

TORONTO - Warriors on the road to start the season, the Toronto Maple Leafs finally transferred some of that success to home ice. Now they will have to wait and see at what cost.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - This one had the look of another frustrating Carolina Hurricanes loss to the New York Islanders. Then the third period came, and everything changed.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - After the Columbus Blue Jackets' biggest offensive outburst of the season, forward Brandon Dubinsky was asked if he saw it coming. "Something had to give, right?" he said.

Detroit manager Jim Leyland arrived at the Tigers' training camp Monday in Lakeland, Fla., marking 50 seasons since he first showed up there as a pencil-thin 18-year-old prospect.

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New Marlins manager Mike Redmond arrived at his office at 5 a.m. Monday ready to go long before the Florida sun was shining, his thoughts already on a date 254 days from now: Game 1 of the World Series. Ah, spring training.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Kirk Gibson is not one to take losing in stride, not as a highly self-motivated player and not as a manager who found success in his first season in charge.

PHOENIX - Shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima made a point of walking across the clubhouse to greet pitcher Bartolo Colon. The new face of the Oakland Athletics' infield, and an old, familiar one. Nakajima arrived in the desert Jan.