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Hockey: World Cup players going to camps after short summer

Hockey: World Cup players going to camps after short summer

Pavelski is used to spending much of the summer in Wisconsin, but he had to pack up the family and head back to California because his 5-year-old son started school in mid-August."Normally, I would still be at the lake now," Pavelski said.Eight teams will be on frozen sheets of ice this week in the U.S., Canada and Europe to prepare for a best-on-best hockey tournament.
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Almost everything you need to know about the World Cup

Almost everything you need to know about the World Cup

Steven Stamkos, Evgeni Malkin, Drew Doughty, Zdeno Chara, Brandon Saad, Tuukka Rask, Ryan McDonagh, Henrik Lundqvist, Sidney Crosby, Anze Kopitar and Dave Pastrnak during a media event for the World Cup in September 2015.- Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY SportsLightning participants, full TV schedule and more as camps get underwayThe Lightning will send the most number of players to represent their respective countries (or continents) when the World Cup festivities officially get underway with training camp opening in North America and Europe on Monday and Tuesday.Twelve members of the team — close to half of them on Team Russia — will participate, and that number doesn't include Ryan Callahan, who pulled out for Team USA because of an injury.
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'It's going to be game on': Team Canada prepares for intense, high-stakes hockey at World Cup

'It's going to be game on': Team Canada prepares for intense, high-stakes hockey at World Cup

OTTAWA — They are Team Canada moments frozen in time and entrenched in our memories:— Paul Henderson's dramatic goal to win the 1972 Summit Series vs. the Soviet Union;— Wayne Gretzky's feed to Mario Lemieux, who fired home the winning goal with 1:26 left to give the country a 6-5 victory over the Soviets in the 1987 Canada Cup in Hamilton;— Joe Sakic's four-point effort on Feb. 24, 2002 in Salt Lake City to lead the country to a 5-2 victory over Team USA to capture the gold medal at the Winter Olympics;— And, of course, Sidney Crosby's golden goal on Feb. 28, 2010 to break a 2-2 tie to give Canada the Olympic gold medal on home soil in Vancouver.Every goal has its own story.RelatedAs the 23 players chosen for Team Canada report for training camp Monday in Ottawa, to participate in the World Cup of Hockey that gets under way Sept. 17 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, this group of players is hoping to make more memories in a tournament that has been surrounded by its share of skepticism.
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Canada ready for World Cup training camp at CTC

Canada ready for World Cup training camp at CTC

They are Team Canada moments frozen in time and entrenched in our memories:• Paul Henderson's dramatic goal to win the 1972 Summit Series vs. the Russians.• Wayne Gretzky's feed to Mario Lemieux, who fired home the winning goal with 1:26 left to give the country a 6-5 victory over Russia in the 1987 Canada Cup in Hamilton.• Joe Sakic's four-point effort on Feb. 24, 2002 in Salt Lake City to lead the country to a 5-2 victory over Team USA to capture the gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
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World Cup of Hockey breathes life into sleepy September

World Cup of Hockey breathes life into sleepy September

World Cup of Hockey breathes life into sleepy SeptemberThe World Cup of Hockey is not the Olympics, and likely never will be, no matter how badly the NHL wants it to be.It's a made-for-TV, jersey-selling cash grab that will give the NHL a national spotlight — back on ESPN for the first time sine 2004 — during the thick of baseball pennant races and the start of football season.But that doesn't mean it won't be a heck of a lot of fun.
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