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October 11, 2010
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Washington
FORGET ABOUT wearing their emotions on their sleeves. As training camp opened, their motivation was printed on their backs as a reminder of last spring’s hiccup. “Stay angry…believe in yourselves” read the slogan on the backs of camp T-shirts. The Capitals will look back on the disastrous upset loss to Montreal as an incentive. Coach Bruce Boudreau isn’t burying the past, nor is he condemning the team for their post-season transgressions. He’s using them for inspiration. “We’ve got an anger still of what went on and how we lost,” he said. “And I hope we’re carrying that chip on our shoulder throughout the course of the year.”…
POLL RESULTS
Was Roberto Luongo right to give up the Canucks captaincy? Yes 95% No 5%…
Edmonton
WHEN A team finishes 30th in the NHL, it probably isn’t leading the league in revolutionary thinking. And the Oilers weren’t. But after spending all year in the basement and losing an incredible 531 man-games to injury, the club is taking a new and scientific approach to just about everything it does. They dissected the organization from top to bottom, investigating sleep studies, re-examining travel and practice schedules and bringing in nutritionists – anything that might shed some light on what they’ve been doing wrong. Assistant athletic therapist Chris Davie said, without dwelling on the man-games lost, the team took a hard look at what it has been doing. “We put it on the table and said, ‘What are we doing that is just tradition, but doesn’t make sense? Let’s look at every category,’…
LOCKE’S STOCK
IT USED TO BE only about the dream. Now it’s about the dream and the money, but as long as the dream is still part of the equation, Corey Locke isn’t going anywhere. Except to the NHL, he hopes. “Until I give up the dream, I’ll stay here in North America trying to fulfill my dreams,” said Locke after signing a free agent deal with the Ottawa Senators back in July. In his sixth pro year, the 26-year-old center was the AHL’s most offensively productive player of 2009-10 after Hershey’s incomparable duo of Keith Aucoin and Alexandre Giroux. Locke’s 31 goals and 85 points for the Hartford Wolf Pack brought his tally to 86 goals and 236 points in 231 games the past three seasons. All of it merited him four NHL games. Three…