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Hockey Canada has named the honourary captains for the 2015 World Junior Championship, which will be held in Toronto and Montreal beginning Dec. 26, 2014. Wendel Clark and Gary Roberts will represent Toronto, while Martin Lapointe and Marc Denis will represent Montreal. Clark, who was known for his grit and physical play throughout his NHL days, helped Canadas national team take the gold medal at the 1985 World Junior Hockey Championships. The defenceman-turned-forward played left wing for Team Canada and scored the game-tying goal in the tournaments final game versus Finland to clinch the gold medal. Roberts played his final junior season in 1985-86, a season in which he played with the Canadian junior team at the 1986 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Roberts finished second on the team with six goals for the silver medal-winning Canadians. Lapointe is one of just seven players to ever compete in three World Juniors for Canada. Despite preferring to call on 18 and 19-year-olds for the tournament, the Canadian coaching staff saw something special in the 17-year-old Lapointe heading into the 1991 WJC in Saskatoon. Denis backed up Montreal Canadiens netminder Jose Theodore when Canada won gold at the 1996 World Junior Championship then was named the top goaltender at the 1997 tournament after leading his country to gold the following year. Montreal and Toronto will co-host the 2015 and 2017 IIHF World Junior Championships, marking the 11th and 12th times Canada has hosted the event. Past Canadian host cities include Calgary and Edmonton, Alta. (2012); Regina and Saskatoon, Sask. (2010); Ottawa, Ont. (2009); Vancouver, Kamloops and Kelowna, B.C. (2006); Halifax and Sydney, N.S. (2003); Winnipeg, Man. (1999); Red Deer, Alta. (1995); Saskatoon, Sask. (1991); Hamilton, Ont. (1986) and Montreal, Que. (1978). Both cities will host a preliminary round group at each event, with Toronto hosting the medal round in 2015 and Montreal hosting the medal round in 2017. Canadas National Junior Team will be based in Montreal for the round robin in 2015, and in Toronto in 2017. The IIHF World Junior Championship will also be hosted in Canada in 2019 and 2021 as a part of an agreement that Hockey Canada worked out with the International Ice Hockey Federation and was approved at the IIHFs congress in 2009. Tracy Walker Lions Jersey . Zdeno Chara scored with 13 seconds left in regulation after David Krejci tied it late, lifting the Bruins to a 3-2 win over Pittsburgh on Saturday night in a game that saw Orpik taken from the ice on a stretcher. Levine Toilolo Lions Jersey .I get texts: Do you know Drake? Have you met Drake? 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The ones away from the rink are already much more dramatic especially because they are about to say goodbye to the only rink the once-proud franchise has ever known.Nassau Coliseum has only one NHL season left in it, and Long Island is about to lose the biggest sports team it has called its own. The Islanders moved into the Coliseum when the team was born in 1972, won four straight Stanley Cup titles as the primary tenant, and then drifted into mediocrity and worse after the dynasty core faded away.But with captain John Tavares back after an Olympic knee injury robbed him of a second half of a season that had showed much promise, a seemingly solid goaltending tandem in place, and more firepower up front, the Islanders might have enough to pump up the old building one more time before the team moves to Brooklyn next season.There are a lot of loyal fans here, and we want to make it special for them, though obviously its not something were going to think about every day, said coach Jack Capuano, who is starting his fifth season behind the Islanders bench.New York has reached the playoffs only once in Capuanos and Tavares tenures, a six-game loss to division rival Pittsburgh in 2013, and just twice overall since 2006 a€” a far cry from five consecutive trips to the finals in the glory days of the early 1980s.The 24-year-old Tavares was near the top of the NHL scoring leaderboard last February when he severely hurt his knee while playing for Canada at the Sochi Olympics and missed the final quarter of the season. He still finished second on the team with 66 points a€” including 24 goals a€” despite playing in only 59 games.Now he feels fully recovered and says had the Islanders qualified for the playoffs, he would have been out there with his teammates.It is great, he said heading into training camp. I had a normal off-season, and the injury has been put behind me for a good three months now.Im really anxious to dive right back into it. The nerves and energy getting ready for the season were there. If I ever lose that feeling, I shouldnt be playing. This is what I love to do. I couldnt be more excited.If he is back to full strength, then perhaps the biggest question mark surrounding the Islanders will be eliminated before the first puck is dropped on opening night at Carolina on Oct. 10.New York finished 34-37-5 last season, which landed the Islanders last in the eight-team Metropolitan Division and 14th in the 16-team Eastern Conference.___Here are other things to watch in the Islanders upcoming season:NABBY NO MORE: After three seasons of Evgeni Nabokov as the No. 1 goalie, the Islanders hhave moved on to a new duo of Jaroslav Halak and Chad Johnson.dddddddddddd They will have the responsibility of replacing Nabokov, who played at least 40 games in each of his seasons in New York and posted a goals-against average under 3.00 in every campaign. Halak won a total of 29 games last season while splitting time with St. Louis and Washington, and has 144 career wins in eight NHL seasons. Johnson has played in only 37 NHL games, but 27 were last season with Boston when he went 17-4-3 with a 2.10 GAA. He has a career mark of 20-6-6 but has never made a post-season appearance.SECONDARY SCORING: Assuming Tavares is back to full strength and takes his place at the top of the teams scoring list, New Yorks offence will need solid production from the group behind the captain.Kyle Okposo picked up the slack last season and finished with career bests of 27 goals and 42 assists for a club-leading 69 points. Frans Nielsen was second with 25 goals and third with 58 points.There was then a steep drop-off as Josh Bailey was fourth in scoring with 38 points, but only eight goals. Michael Grabner slipped to only 12 goals in 64 games after posting 20, 16 and 12 goals in the previous three seasons.LEAF COLLECTION: Islanders general manager Garth Snow made big investments in free-agent forwards Mikhail Grabovski and Nikolai Kulemin, reuniting the former Toronto Maple Leafs teammates with four-year deals.Grabovskis contract is worth $20 million, while Kulemin will make $16.75 million.The 30-year-old Grabovski, from Belarus, had 13 goals and 22 assists in 58 games last season for Washington. He has 107 goals and 145 assists in eight seasons with Montreal, Toronto and Washington.The 27-year-old Kulemin, from Russia, had nine goals and 11 assists in 70 games last season for Toronto. He has 84 goals and 111 assists in 421 games in six seasons, all with the Maple Leafs.Grabovski and Kulemin were Toronto teammates from 2008-13 and spent time as linemates, too. Grabovski gives the Islanders depth at centre behind Tavares, and would seem to be a good fit on a line with left winger Kulemin.New York will also have returning centres Frans Nielsen, Brock Nelson and Ryan Strome providing strength up the middle.OWNING UP: Not only will the Islanders be changing locations in the near future, the people calling the shots will be undergoing a makeover, too.In August, the club announced that owner Charles Wang sold a minority stake of the team to a former Washington Capitals co-owner and a London-based investor who will become full owners in two years. Jon Ledecky and investor Scott Malkin agreed to buy a substantial minority interest and will take over full ownership from Wang.On Tuesday, the NHL board of governors unanimously approved the minority stake purchase. The overall purchase remains subject to completion of documentation and further league review before the transaction is closed. 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