Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.
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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
Arc's five up, five down: After No. 11 Michigan State's 58-48 upset of No. 3 Ohio State, you'd be a fool to discount the Spartans' national title chances now.
Miami coach Al Golden says the worst is behind him, but his headaches figure to continue now that former booster Nevin Shapiro, now in jail, says his involvement with the Hurricanes program will result in stiff penalties.
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The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
Euro Roundup: First-place Manchester City won 1-0 at Aston Villa on Sunday on Joleon Lescott's goal in the 63rd minute, maintaining its two-point lead over Manchester United in the Premier League.
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees. Overall leader Lindsey Vonn was more than a second behind and finished eighth.
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APIn June of 2001 Hasek was traded by Buffalo to Detroit and in his first season with the Red Wings he became the first starting European goalie to win the Stanley Cup. That erased once and for all the perception that European goalies couldn’t excel in the NHL — a perception that came about in part because NHL rinks are 15 feet narrower than European rinks meaning shots would come at the goalies from a shorter distance. Also fueling this perception were questions over the mental toughness of European goalies and whether they could withstand the contact that was part of the NHL but not part of the style of play in Europe.
Part of the fun of watching Hasek play came through how aggressive he was and how he wanted to contribute in so many ways. Early in his career this led to him often leaving the net to play the puck. But the older a goalie gets the longer the trek seems from the corners back to the net and that along with post-lockout rule changes for goalies and the fact that Hasek wasn't a particularly good puck handler kept him close to home.
The appreciation of Hasek’s style and his play came not only from fans and the media. When the Red Wings go to training camp other players wanted to stand around and watch the goalie because he was so dynamic even in practice.
A coach or a general manager would get a stomach full of knots watching Hasek’s acrobatic style of goaltending but from a fan’s standpoint there was great enjoyment in doing so because of the athleticism involved and how he played as opposed to how goalies with a butterfly style perform. Butterfly goalies generally present a picture of composure while Hasek generally presented a picture of being out of control. But he also presented a picture of greatness — one which will be missed.
Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.