halftime and never built a comfortable lead against lowly Jacksonville,

Thumbs up to Joe Louis Arena, which received its death notice this week. It is scheduled for eventual demolition as the Detroit Red Wings point to a 2017 move to a new arena. I wont lament the passing of the building itself, except for the memories it contains and the name it honours and displays--Joe Louis. It must be an old arena to be named after a person, an heroic figure who meant so much to Detroit when he was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Every NHL arena built since the coming of Joe Louis Arena in 1979 bears the name of a corporation. We know what naming rights are worth and theres no point lobbying for a return to the old days. But consider this: NHL hockey is being played in buildings known as BB and T Center, Amalie Arena, PNC Arena, and SAP Center and you likely dont know where they are. You know where Joe Louis Arena is. Its in Detroit. And its the Joe. Priceless. Thumbs down to a bunch of NHL general managers. Oh, I dont know exactly how many, but lets say several teams could have used Johnny Boychuk and Nick Leddy and only one team--the New York Islanders--seized the opportunity to take two good defencemen off the salary-cap-strapped hands of the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks respectively. Isles GM Garth Snow did that because he had to do that--he had to make moves to boost his teams chances of making the playoffs because missing the playoffs would create the possibility of Buffalo landing Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel with a draft pick obtained from the Islanders in the historically-bad Thomas Vanek trade. But if Snow had the best reason to go after Boychuk and Leddy, others should have been similarly motivated. That one team was able to get both players and give up nothing from its NHL roster and no first-round draft picks suggests there were general managers asleep at the switch. If youre wondering why I didnt just say thumbs up to Garth Snow, well, Ive avoided sending praise in his direction this long, Ill keep that slate clean. For now. Atlanta Falcons Jerseys . According to USA Today the Finns have tapped forwards Jarkko Immonen and Sakari Salminen to replace injured forwards Mikko Koivu and Valtteri Filppula at the Sochi Games. Steve Bartkowski Youth Jersey .com) - Intrastate rivals collide Saturday as the Texas State Bobcats hit the road to take on the eighth-ranked Texas Longhorns in a non-conference battle at Frank Erwin Center. http://www.thefaclonsshoponline.com/Youth-Julio-Jones-Falcons-Jersey/ . Jamies number grades given are out of five, with five being the best mark. Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers (5) - Simply put, Lundqvist was brilliant. Kaleb McGary Youth Jersey . Colorado came up big against Chicago last spring, and repeated that performance Tuesday night. Varlamov stopped 36 shots and Paul Stastny had a goal and an assist for the Avalanche in a 5-1 victory over the Blackhawks. Calvin Ridley Youth Jersey .That is precisely what they got Sunday.The Ravens trailed at halftime and never built a comfortable lead against lowly Jacksonville, yet did just enough to squeeze out a 20-12 win to stay in the thick of the AFC playoff race.QUEBEC -- Mikhail Grigorenko scored two goals and assisted on two others as the Quebec Remparts topped the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada 7-5 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action on Tuesday. David Hunter and Nick Sorensen had a goal and an assist apiece for Quebec (34-15-9), Francois Godin, and Fabrice Herzog also scored, and Adam Chapman added an empty netter with two seconds left in the game. Anthony Duclair contributed with four assists.dddddddddddd. Christopher Clapperton scored twice and helped on two, and Samuel Hodhod, Dominic Talbot-Tassi, and Philippe Sanche rounded out the Armada (37-11-9) offence with a goal and an assist apiece. Francois Brassard started in net for the Remparts and gave up four goals on 17 shots before being replaced by Callum Booth, who stopped 8 of 9. Blainville-Boisbriands Etienne Marcoux made 22 saves in the loss. ' ' '