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TORONTO -- And so we begin.The first World Cup of Hockey in a dozen years is set to open to all kinds of bells and whistles Saturday in the center of Canadas hockey universe: Toronto.Eight teams, representing six countries and two continents, and the largest collection of NHL talent ever assembled in one tournament are set to try to put the World Cup of Hockey back on the international hockey radar.Consider this: Of the 184 players on the eight rosters, 169 played in the NHL last season. Two others, Team North Americas Auston Matthews and Finlands Patrik Laine, went Nos. 1 and 2 in last Junes draft and are likely to play in the NHL this season.The players in the tournament, jointly organized by the NHL and the National Hockey League Players Association, have combined to play 73,299 NHL regular-season games and have a total of 47 Stanley Cup championships to their credit.The Tampa Bay Lightning leads all NHL teams with 12 players taking part, with representatives on seven of the eight teams. It would have been 13 if Ryan Callahan?hadnt withdrawn from Team USA because of injury. Lightning head coach Jon Cooper is also an associate coach with Team North America.Speaking of Team North America, it has quickly become the darling of the tournament. Many believe the collection of highly skilled players from Canada and the United States under the age of 24 has the goods to advance to the elimination portion of the tournament.Team North America features a bevy of players who represent the future of the game, including team captain Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers and Jack Eichel?of the?Buffalo Sabres.?The duo represents the top two picks in the 2015 draft. McDavid, 19, has been hailed as the greatest young talent to join the NHL since Sidney Crosby arrived more than a decade ago.And though Team North America is young, it does boast a two-time Stanley Cup winner in Brandon Saad of the Columbus Blue Jackets, and goalie?Matt Murray, who backstopped the Pittsburgh Penguins to a Cup win in June.The tournament will start with two four-team pools in round-robin play (Canada, United States, Czech Republic and Europe make up Group A; Sweden, Finland, Russia and North America are in Group B). The top two teams from each group will advance to the semifinals, with the No. 1 teams playing the second-place teams from the opposite pool. The winners of those one-game semifinals will meet in the best-of-three finals.Pool play begins Saturday with Team USA taking on Team Europe (3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2), another hybrid team featuring players from non-competing European nations. Team Canada?opens against the Czech Republic on Saturday (8 p.m. on ESPNEWS).The preliminary round will follow standard NHL regular-season protocol. If a score is tied at the end of regulation, there will be a five-minute, 3-on-3 overtime. If nobody scores in OT, the game will be decided by a shootout. Teams will accumulate two points for a win of any kind and one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Regulation wins are favorable because they will factor into the tiebreaking process used to determine which teams advance to the elimination round in the event teams are tied in points after the three preliminary games.NHL playoff rules will come into effect in the semifinals and final, with overtime games played 5-on-5 until a resolution, regardless of how long that might take.Heading into the games, there are plenty of storylines to watch.The host Canadians will be without Jeff Carter, Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin and Duncan Keith, all of whom withdrew because of injury. Guess what? It doesnt matter. The Canadians are loaded, and they are led by Pittsburghs Crosby, who is coming off his second Stanley Cup run, and Montreal Canadiens netminder Carey Price, who is attempting to return from a core body injury that cost him most of last season.The biggest decisions facing Team Canada head coach Mike Babcock might be about whom to scratch for each game because one goalie, one defenseman and one forward from each teams 23-man roster will not dress.The Swedes are as complete a team as there is in the tournament, even though they will be without Henrik Zetterberg and Alexander Steen. The Russians, led by Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin and Crosbys longtime teammate Evgeni Malkin, are explosive.Team Europe, whose players represent eight European nations not included otherwise, got off to a rocky start before rebounding to win their final pretournament game over Sweden. Europe is noteworthy for, among other things, completing the eighth father-son combination to take part in Canada Cup/World Cup of Hockey competition. Skilled Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl follows his father, Peter, who skated for Germany in the 1996 tournament.As for Team USA, its a hard-nosed, veteran group led by 2015-16 NHL scoring champion and MVP Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks. Two-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings will get the start in goal. Team USA, 20 years after its seminal win over Canada in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, hopes to rebound from a disappointing showing at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.?Each team played three pretournament games. If the results tell us one thing, its that no team can be fully counted out of the running. Each squad won at least one game, and none went undefeated. 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On a day filled mostly with qualifying matches, fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain also entered the second with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia, while Guido Pella of Argentina defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 6-4 to advance. Courtland Sutton Jersey . The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didnt like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose.The Los Angeles Rams selected Jared Goff with the first pick of the NFL Draft as the franchise prepares for a new era. The Rams are relocating from St Louis ahead of the 2016 season and they made a big splash earlier this month when trading multiple picks to the Tennessee Titans for the first selection in the rookie draft. Goff v Wentz Profiling the first and second picks of the NFL Draft Most assumed the trade was made to add a quarterback - either Goff or Carson Wentz - and confirmation came on Thursday when commissioner Roger Goodell announced California product Goff as the opening pick of the first round in Chicago. Just truly a dream come true, Goff said. Im taking it as an honour and Im going to have to prove them right, that they made the right decision.If youre a first-round quarterback, theres going to be pressure regardless. Im very excited, very ready to go, ready for the challenge. Carson Wentz will kick off his professional career with the Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles also traded up to get hold of the second pick, knowing they would get whichever quarterback the Rams passed on - North Dakota States Wentz as it predictably turned out. Carson Wentz talks to Richard Graves about his selection by the Philadelphia Eagles Im happy to be an Eagle, said Wentz. Im bringing it. Theyre getting a passionate player. Im pumped to be an Eagle and ready to go to work.The rest of the draft was less predictable, starting with the San Diego Chargers passing on Laremy Tunsil and instead selecting defensive lineman Joey Bosa. Laremy Tunsil was finally able to celebrate being selected when Miami picked him 13th Tunsils drop would continue all the way to the 13th pick, where the Miami Dolphins selected him to bring an end to a night that had seen his stock affected by a social media post. Sky Sports presenter and Miami Dolphins fan Neil Reynolds reacts to the controversial pick of Laremy Tunsil The offensive tackle was shown in a video with a gas mask on, smoking throughh what appeared to be a bong, and it led to a number of teams removing him from their draft board completely.dddddddddddd Laremy Tunsil drops to number 13 pick after a video is posted on twitter of him apparently smoking something through a gas mask After being picked by the Dolphins, he said: It was a mistake. It happened years ago, like I said before. Somebody hacked my Twitter account and thats how it got on there.Its a crazy world. Things happen for a reason. Im glad to be in Miami. Im going to work my butt off and give it all I got. Ezekiel Elliott was picked fourth by the Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys selected running back Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth pick of the draft, with the top five being rounded out by cornerback Jalen Ramsey, selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars.There were also four trades completed during the evening, with possibly the most interesting seeing the Denver Broncos move up five slots to pick Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch. Cornerback Eli Apple tells Richard Graves why he almost didnt pick up the phone call from the New York Giants The draft continues on Friday night with rounds two and three, with the remaining selections to be made on Saturday.First round selections:1.01 Los Angeles Rams: QB Jared Goff1.02 Philadelphia Eagles: QB Carson Wentz1.03 San Diego: DL Joey Bosa1.04 Dallas: RB Ezekiel Elliott1.05 Jacksonville: DB Jalen Ramsey1.06 Baltimore: OT Ronnie Stanley1.07 San Francisco: DE DeForest Buckner1.08 Tennessee (via trade): OT Jack Conklin1.09: Chicago (via trade): OLB Leonard Floyd1.10 New York Giants: DB Eli Apple1.11 Tampa Bay: DB Vernon Hargreaves1.12 New Orleans: DT Sheldon Rankins1.13 Miami: OT Laremy Tunsil1.14 Oakland: DB Karl Joseph1.15 Cleveland (via trade): WR Corey Coleman1.16 Detroit: OT Taylor Decker1.17 Atlanta: DB Keanu Neal1.18 Indianapolis: C Ryan Kelly1.19 Buffalo: DE Shaq Lawson1.20 New York Jets: LB Darron Lee1.21 Houston (via trade): WR Will Fuller1.22 Washington: WR Josh Doctson1.23 Minnesota: WR Laquon Treadwell1.24 Cincinnati: DB William Jackson III1.25 Pittsburgh: DB Artie Burns1.26 Denver (via trade): QB Paxton Lynch;1.27 Green Bay: DT Kenny Clark1.28 San Francisco (via trade): OG Joshua Garnett1.29 Arizona; DT Robert Nkemdiche1.30 Carolina: DE Vernon Butler1.31 Seattle (via trade): OT Germain Ifedi Also See: First round recap NFL Draft could be on move ' ' '