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UFA, Russia - Goaltending coach Ron Tugnutt mused aloud during the Canadian junior hockey team's selection camp in Calgary that travelling 13 times zones to pursue a gold medal might not be a disadvantage for the team.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Former AL MVP Miguel Tejada has reached a minor league deal with the Kansas City Royals and says he is ready to return to the majors. The 38-year-old infielder got a one-year contract that will be worth $1.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Just steps from the massive celebration in Times Square, top NHL executives spent New Year's Eve reviewing a collective bargaining proposal that could save a shortened season.

UFA, Russia - Jonathan Drouin's stock is rising on sa国际传媒's junior team, and likely for the next NHL draft too.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will return to the air on New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home.

DAVOS, Switzerland - sa国际传媒's Patrice Bergeron silenced the raucous crowd at the Vaillant Arena in the opening minute of the Spengler Cup final. He then made sure that host HC Davos never recovered.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - As the NHL and NHL Players' Association continue to creep perilously close to another lost season, the union now finds itself wielding a fair amount of influence over where things are headed.

DAVOS, Switzerland - The Canadian team at the Spengler Cup is a mix of European league players and locked-out NHLers who have had little time to get used to playing with each other. You wouldn't know it by the results on the ice.

UFA, Russia - They were the first players selected in the last two NHL drafts by the same club, but the first time sa国际传媒's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Russia's Nail Yakupov step on the ice together, they'll be combatants.

UFA, Russia - Malcolm Subban stepped up for sa国际传媒 in a big way on Sunday. The goaltender made 36 saves as the Canadians defeated the United States 2-1 to stay perfect after three games at the world junior hockey championship.