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With just a week remaining before the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League trade deadline, the Victoria Grizzlies have made a move to bolster their blueline.

Not unlike Wall Street, the Western Hockey League trade deadline finds teams either in bull or bear markets. Those clubs loaded with 19-year-olds and who feel on the verge, are looking to buy even more in order to enhance their championship hopes.

This isn’t some magic mushroom flashback from the 1970s. Another Lofthouse will indeed be skating on Blanshard Street tonight in a Western Hockey League game when the Victoria Royals meet the Tri-City Americans. But Island fans can breathe easy.

VANCOUVER - As the NHL lockout dragged on Thursday, the world junior hockey championship was a welcome distraction for some members of the Vancouver Canucks.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Less than a day after letting a self-imposed deadline pass to declare a "disclaimer of interest," NHL players began voting to restore their executive board's authority to dissolve the union.

CLEVELAND - Nick Swisher's smile was broader and brighter than the Chief Wahoo logo on his new cap. He was back in Ohio, back at home, back where it all started. "This is the place for me to be," he said. "All roads led to Cleveland.

EDMONTON - Alberta's Wildrose party has come up with a lottery scheme that it hopes will skate around the politics of funding new NHL hockey arenas in Edmonton and Calgary.

McMaster's Matt Sewell and Calgary's Kirby Fabien have one more college football game to play. The towering offensive tackles will participate in the East-West Shrine game Jan. 19 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's attorney general said she granted Gov.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Sidney Crosby's been down the road too many times during the NHL's seemingly interminable lockout to get too optimistic about the latest — and perhaps last — round of negotiations.