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DETROIT -- Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Deryk Engelland has been ejected from a game against the Detroit Red Wings because of an illegal hit to the head. Andrew Stevenson Jersey . Engelland landed his right shoulder high on Detroit forward Justin Abdelkader late in the first period Saturday night. After Abdelkader struggled to get up and had to be helped off the ice, Engelland was called for a match penalty. Boston Bruins forward Shawn Thornton was suspended earlier in the day for 15 games by the NHL for punching and injuring Pittsburgh defenceman Brooks Orpik. Thornton went after Orpik during a stoppage in play Dec. 7, knocking him down to the ice and punching him twice. Orpik sustained a concussion and was taken off the ice on a stretcher and hasnt played since that game. Austin Voth Nationals Jersey . The star receiver certainly isnt celebrating it with the Texans mired in a franchise-record 13-game skid. Wilmer Difo Jersey .com) - Marian Gaborik scored his sixth goal in the last four games to help the Los Angeles Kings top the Arizona Coyotes, 4-2, Saturday at Staples Center. https://www.cheapnationals.com/ . The 19-year-old from Westmount, Que., was edged 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 by third-seeded Alize Cornet of France. Cornet broke Bouchard twice in the last set and saved six break points in the three-hour match.WENGEN, Switzerland - Naoki Yuasa showed his best race form of the Alpine ski season on Saturday, one month before his event at the world championships.The slalom specialist from Japan had the third-fastest time in the second leg of a World Cup race, just 0.02 seconds slower than the run that propelled Felix Neureuther of Germany to victory 40 minutes later.Still, Yuasa believes he can improve during an intense month in slalom before the Feb. 2-15 worlds at Vail-Beaver Creek, Colorado.It is a very, very tough race for me, Yuasa told The Associated Press after his quick second trip down the storied slope at Wengen. But Im trying my best.Yuasas best was good enough for a 23rd-place finish. A 30th-fastest run in the morning only just qualified him for the afternoon action, though gave him first use of a course made difficult by steady falls of soft, wet snow.Now, this moment, my condition is not so perfect, the 31-year-old Yuasa said.To prepare for his medal event scheduled on Feb. 15, he has two more World Cups, both at classic Austrian venues which draw big, noisy crowds.Kitzbuehel next Sundaay is followed by Yuasas favourite, under floodlights at Schladming, where he has three previous top-10 finishes. Matt Adams Jersey. .That is my best race. I like the night race with many people there, said Yuasa, who was chasing World Cup points as a priority over medals.My first target is to go back to the top 15, he said.Scoring eight race points on Saturday lifted Yuasa to 27th in the standings, now above two-time World Cup slalom champion Ivica Kostelic of Croatia.His best result this season was 14th at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, where he earned a career-best third place two seasons ago.Yuasa acknowledged a longer-term career incentive was the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.Because the Olympics are in Pyeongchang, the World Cup will return to Japan after a 10-year gap when the circuit swings through Asia for test events on Olympic slopes.A slalom is scheduled on Feb. 14, 2016 at Naeba, which last hosted World Cup races in 1975.Yuasa was in the lineup when Japan last staged a World Cup slalom in March 2006. He placed 18th and teammate Akira Sasaki was sixth at Shigakogen. ' ' '