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Horvat had three assists in his last outing and has one goal and four points in his last two games. The 19-year-old was born in 1995 – the same year Jaromir Jagr won his first NHL scoring title. Jagr was born in 1972. Horvat’s mother Cindy was born in 1969. The Devils arrive in Vancouver following a 5-4 shootout loss in Calgary on Saturday. After setting a franchise record by starting the first 20 games of the season, Cory Schneider had the night off at the Saddledome for the team’s last game versus the Flames. The Devils have played an East-leading 13 road games. Overall, only San Jose (16) has played more games on the road so far this season. The Devils PK is 25/26 (96.2%) in its past six games. Tonight marks just the seventh visit to Vancouver by the Devils since 2000. They have just one victory (1-4-1) here in the past 15 years. Adam Henrique and Tuomo Ruutu have scored in back to back games. Henrique and Zack Kassian were teammates on the 2010 Memorial Cup champion Windsor Spitfires. Defenceman Andy Greene is playing career game 499 tonight while the next assist for Patrick Elias will be the 600th of his career. Jaromir Jagr will play his 1500th NHL game early next month. Of the 1494 games he has played, only 12 have been here in Vancouver. New Jersey has six players on its roster (Jagr, Patrik Elias, Bryce Salvador, Marek Zidlicky, Scott Clemmensen, Dainius Zubrus) who were born in the 1970s. With Michael Ryder (March, 1980), the Devils have seven players older than the oldest Canuck (Ryan Miller, July, 1980). Adidas Basketball Shoes Wholesale .C. -- Al Jefferson said he feels like hes playing the best basketball of his 10-year NBA career. Adidas Nmd Clearance Womens . -- Olympic medallist Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que. http://www.cheapnmdsneakersireland.com/adidas-basketball-shoes.html . Greece was on the wrong end of a 3-0 rout to Colombia in its first game of the tournament. They surrendered a goal in just the sixth minute of the contest, and despite some promising attacking play, failed to crawl back into the match. Japan, on the other hand, struck first in its match with Ivory Coast, with Keisuke Honda putting his side into the lead in the 16th minute.Scott Cullen takes a look at the stories from November 15th through November 21st in the NHL, including financial troubles for Jack Johnson, health issues for Pascal Dupuis, the Canadiens getting cap space, a wild week in Toronto and more. JACK JOHNSON BANKRUPTCY The Columbus Dispatchs Aaron Portzline reported on the financial difficulties facing 27-year-old Blue Jackets defenceman Jack Johnson. According to Cap Geek, Johnson has made more than $20-million to this point in his career, and still has three more years and $15-million remaining on his current contract, yet is filing for bankruptcy protection, facing $10-to-$15-million in debt, after his money was mismanaged. What makes the story worse is that Johnsons parents were reportedly responsible for his financial demise. There are countless stories of professional athletes being swindled or mismanaging their money -- Johnsons not the first -- but its not as common to have the trouble traced back to the family tree. As embarrassing as it might be for Johnson to have this story made public, it serves as a good warning for young players to know what is happening with their money. In a career that can be as lucrative as professional hockey, athletes that arent necessarily savvy in their financial decision-making can be prime targets. Even so, its an extra kick in the teeth when family trust gets broken in the process. VOYNOV CHARGED Los Angeles Kings defenceman Slava Voynov has been on paid leave from the team since October 20, while he was the subject of a domestic violence investigation. A month later, Voynov has been charged with one count of felony domestic violence and as the legal process plays out, there may be some end in sight to the salary cap complications that the Kings have been dealing with in Voynovs absence. When asked this week about the problems this situation has presented to the Kings, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was adamant that the Kings arent getting bailed out of this situation. All teams have to manage their salary cap, was Bettmans refrain, but it turns out that the league is willing to allow the Kings to include Voynov on the Long-Term Injury Exception for salary cap purposes. Voynov has an arraignment scheduled for December 1 and Voynovs wife expressed dismay at the charges. The Kings, for their part in this, should at least have the cap room needed to ice a full roster on a regular basis. Twice this season, they have been forced to play with only 19 players dressed. DUPUIS SIDELINED A blue-collar winger who has enjoyed some success on Sidney Crosby’s right wing in recent seasons, Dupuis battled back from a torn ACL suffered last season, and had recently rejoined Crosby on the Penguins top line, but he’s now been diagnosed with a blood clot in his lungs and that will keep him out for the next six months. Dupuis is 35-years-old, and under contract for two more seasons beyond this, but the stakes involved certainly require a cautious approach. While its not standard to lose players to blood clots, the Penguins have had more than their share of unusually serious health situations in recent years. Teams have guys suffer knee, shoulder and ankle injuries all the time but, in addition to Dupuis, the Penguins have had defenceman Olli Maatta just return from surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his thyroid, had defenceman Kris Letang suffer a stroke last season and goaltender Tomas Vokoun missed all of the 2013-14 season with blood clots. Its a strange run of serious health issues for one franchise. In Dupuis absence, the Penguins will need to dig into their forward depth and they start with Blake Comeau moving up the depth chart but, given the long-term nature of Dupuis absence, Pittsburgh should be in the trade market for a scoring winger. VORACEK TAKES OVER SCORING LEAD Philadelphia Flyers 25-year-old right winger Jakub Voracek is off to a great start to his seventh season in the league, and hes moved into the scoring lead with 27 points in 18 games, one ahead of (in one more game) a healthy Sidney Crosby. Voracek and Claude Giroux drive the Flyers attack and theyre dominating territorial play at an elite level, so even if (when?) Voracek falls off from his current 123-point pace, hes looking at a dramatic upgrade from last seasons career-high 62 points. HABS CREATING CAP SPACE The Montreal Canadiens dealt inconsistent winger Rene Bourque to the Anaheim Ducks for veteran mind-the-store defenceman Bryan Allen. Neither is likely to be a difference-maker. Allen is a passable depth defenceman and Bourque is a winger with good size who can be a force, but all too often is invisible. But the story of the deal is that Montreal gets additional cap space. Allens on an expiring deal and Bourque has an extra year remaining, so the Habs get cap room sooner andd while the unrestricted free agent market hasnt offered many great solutions in recent years, having the extra room leaves Montreal in better position to negotiate extensions with restricted free agents Alex Galchenyuk and Brendan Gallagher. Shop Adidas Basketball Shoes. LETS PLAY TWO On Tuesday, Florida Panthers prospect Rocco Grimaldi played a rare 10:30 am game for San Antonio in the American Hockey League, a special start time for school children, then left that game after the second period when he was called up to the NHL to fill in for an ill Aleksander Barkov in the Florida lineup at Los Angeles that night. Grimaldi, who is a California native, was a second-round pick in 2011 and has yet to record a point in six NHL games as a first-year pro. He does have six points in 13 AHL games. CONCUSSION LAWSUIT The National Hockey League has responded to a concussion lawsuit with assertions that NHL players should have used publicly-available information and put two and two together when it comes to the effects of concussions. While this isnt a comment on whether the league is liable for the damage inflicted to players throughout their careers, suggesting that the onus rested on the players to know the long-term neurological effects doesnt come across as a realistic alternative. The issue facing the National Hockey League when it comes to the concussion lawsuit is that this has already been playing out in the NFL and and NFLs handling of it tends to make the public distrustful of the legal maneuvering that a sports league can go through to get the best possible settlement. LECLAIR, LINDROS HONOURED The Philadelphia Flyers inducted John LeClair and Eric Lindros -- two-third of the Legion of Doom line -- into the Flyers Hall of Fame Thursday night. They, along with Mikael Renberg, formed one of the best lines in hockey in the 1990s, with Lindros and LeClair combining to score 623 goals for the Flyers. From 1995-96 through 1999-2000, LeClair recorded five straight seasons with at least 40 goals, while Lindros was a force of nature when healthy for the Flyers. From the time he entered the league, in 1992-93 through 1999-2000, Lindros scored 290 goals in 486 games, his 0.60 goals per game ranking third behind Pavel Bure and Teemu Selanne, and his 1.45 points per game (659 points in 486 games) ranked second only to Jaromir Jagr. A WILD WEEK IN THE BIG SMOKE The week for the Toronto Maple Leafs started on the wrong foot, with a 2-1 loss at home to Pittsburgh, but that wasnt the end of the world -- it was a competitive game against a really good team. It got dramatically worse the next night, when the Leafs lost 6-2 in Buffalo, getting blown out by the worst team in the league. That cloud hovered over the team until their next game, at home against Nashville Tuesday, when the Leafs dropped a 9-2 decision. At that point, the wolves were howling at the door, wondering whether a coaching change was coming for a team that looked listless in back-to-back embarrassing defeats. Then, Toronto went out and beat a quality Tampa Bay team 5-2 Thursday night, which should have calmed everything down but, for whatever reason, the Leafs decided that was the time to veer from their previous tradition of saluting the fans after a win on home ice so, suddenly, that became the story. If the idea was to shake up routine, it didnt make much sense after the fact. The game was over and result already known, so thats doing superstition backwards. Maybe it was more about establishing an us-against-the-world mentality, which is not unusual for a team coming under fire, but the Leafs were coming under fire for results that could only be viewed in a negative light. There was no positive way to spin the Buffalo and Nashville debacles, but somehow the narrative over the week got to be about the pressure of playing in Toronto, with the media taking a bunch of blame for the teams troubles. HALL OF FAME CHANGE Following the induction of this years outstanding Hall of Fame class, Pierre LeBrun reported that the Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame was altering its eligibility rules, making it possible for a player who had not played for three years to be eligible. Previously, a player had to be retired for three years, but some players, most notably Chris Pronger, are stuck on long-term injured reserve year after year while their contracts wind down. The change in criteria should put Pronger in the Hall sooner than previously expected. He last skated for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2011-12 and his on-ice credentials warrant it. He won a Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007, played in the 2006 Final with Edmonton and 2010 Final with Philadelphia, won the Norris Trophy and Hart Trophy in 1999-2000. Hes also the best player I ever played against, which isnt quite as big an honour for him. ' ' '