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The Winnipeg Jets start their final week of regular season play on home ice tonight with a 7:00pm ct face-off against the Minnesota Wild at MTS Centre. Klay Thompson Swingman Jersey . Michael Hutchinson will start in goal for the Jets. Its his first NHL start after playing with the ECHLs Ontario Reign and AHLs St. Johns Ice Caps this season. Jets Projected Lines: Kane-Little-Frolik Tangradi-Jokinen-Wheeler Setoguchi-ODell-Halischuk Klingberg-Slater-Peluso Enstrom-Postma Stuart-Trouba Pardy-Redmond Head Coach Paul Maurice announced today Dustin Byfuglien will miss the final three games due to a torn muscle. Andrew Ladd will not play due to an upper body injury. He is listed as day-to-day. Olli Jokinen has scored in back-to-back games. Tonight is Jim Slaters 500th NHL game. Minnesota enters this game with a 3-0-1 record in their last four games earning seven of a possible eight points. The (40-26-12) Wild have 92 points and currently hold a Western Conference Wild Card playoff spot. Ilya Bryzgalov will start in goal. Wild Projected Lines: Parise-Koivu-Coyle Moulson-Haula-Pominville Cooke-Brodziak-Fontaine Veilleux-McCormick-Niederreiter Suter-Spurgeon Prosser-Brodin Blum-Scandella Erik Haula has scored in back-to-back games and has two goals and an assist in his last three games. Charlie Coyle has one goal and three assists in his last three games. Tonight is the final of a five-game regular season series between these teams. Mikko Koivu has three goals and one assist so far, and has led the Wild to a 3-1 record vs. Winnipeg. Harrison Barnes Jersey . Beating Real Madrid in the Champions League final on Saturday may finally put that moniker to rest. Atletico was on the cusp of winning the European Cup on its first appearance in the final in 1974, leading Bayern Munich 1-0 in extra time after Luis Aragones curled home in the 114th-minute at Heysel Stadium. Jason Thompson Authentic Jersey . The Basque club improved to four points better than fifth-place Villarreal in the duel for the last Champions League qualifying place. Celta should have come away with more from the high tempo game.WASHINGTON -- General manager George McPhee and coach Adam Oates lost their jobs with the Washington Capitals on Saturday, about two weeks after the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007. "We were left with the overall impression that the team wasnt trending toward being able to compete for a Stanley Cup," Capitals owner Ted Leonsis said in a news conference at the clubs arena. "And that was just a clear signal and why it was time to make those changes." McPhees contract was up and the team announced it will not give him a new one after his 17 years as the GM, which included drafting Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom in the first round. Oates was fired with one season left on his three-year deal. A former star player for the Capitals, he was in his first job as an NHL head coach. Washington finished this season with the ninth-most points in the Eastern Conference, one spot out of a playoff berth. "You have to do something to pivot the team to be an ongoing strong team," Leonsis said. "And I just felt that new leadership at this time was needed, and lets start it with a clean slate." Asked whether any player would be untouchable as part of upcoming changes -- a chance, perhaps, for Leonsis to mention captain and top scorer Ovechkin -- the owner replied: "Im not the general manager. So If the general manager comes with something, we would listen to the general manager." Ovechkin has won three league MVP awards and again led the NHL in scoring this season with 51 goals, but the Capitals havent made it past the second round of the playoffs during the Russian wings career. Dick Patrick, the president of the Capitals, said the team already has drawn up a list of potential GM candidates. "Typically, youd like to have a general manager in place and have him choose a coach," Patrick said. The Capitals reached the Stanley Cup finals in 1998, McPhees first year on the job, and were swept by the Detroit Red Wings. Later, MMcPhee oversaw a "rebuild" ordered by Leonsis, including jettisoning top players with big contracts such as Jaromir Jagr. Andrew Bogut Authentic Jersey. "Lets not forget that rebuilding process was dramatic. And I watched a great executive go through really, really hard times and really rebuild that team quickly. We just didnt get there," Leonsis said. "At some point, you just have to try something different." While McPhee eventually built a young roster filled with offensive stars, he never placed as much emphasis on constructing a rugged, defensive-minded blue line crop. He hired a succession of coaches with zero previous NHL experience running a team, including Glen Hanlon, Bruce Boudreau, Dale Hunter and Oates. Led by Ovechkin, the Capitals produced terrific regular-season results for a half-dozen seasons, without similar success in the post-season. Four years ago, Washington won the Presidents Trophy for having the most points during the season, then lost in the first round of the playoffs to the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens. Leonsis called McPhee, who built seven division-winning teams, "a talented man, a great friend," but that it was time for "a fresh set of eyes." The Capitals went 65-48-17 under Oates in his two seasons. In a brief statement released via the team, Oates called it "a tremendous honour to coach the Capitals these past two seasons" and said he was "grateful for the opportunity." In his first season in charge, which was shortened because of a labour dispute, Washington reached the playoffs with a late surge before losing in the first round to the New York Rangers in seven games. "We were a continuously improving playoff team until we werent. And the last two seasons showed us that we need to improve. And thats what it came down to," Leonsis said. "Dick and I said, We have to make that gut check. Do we have to change? And where do you start? And you start with the coach and the general manager." Cheap China Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NHL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys From China China NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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