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The Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs today announced Thursday that former Detroit coaches Scotty Bowman and Barry Smith will be behind the bench against former Toronto coaches Red Kelly and Pat Quinn at the 2012 Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings Alumni Showdown on New Years Eve at Comerica Park, part of the NHLs Winter Classic festivities. The winningest bench boss in NHL history with 1,244 career victories, Bowman has been a part of 12 Stanley Cup-winning teams, including a league-record nine as a head coach. Bowman helped direct the Red Wings to three Cup titles (1997, 1998 and 2002) and retired from coaching while skating with the Cup following Detroits 10th Stanley Cup in 2002. Smith was with the Red Wings from 1994-2005 and was part of three Stanley Cup championship teams with Detroit following two titles as an assistant with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Red Kelly, the eight-time Stanley Cup winner and first James Norris Memorial Trophy recipient, coached Toronto to four consecutive playoff appearances from 1973 to 1977. He will join forces with the NHLs fourth winningest coach and two-time Jack Adams Award winner Pat Quinn, who also led Team Canada to back-to-back world titles with a gold medal in the 2002 Olympics followed by the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. Player thus far announced for Detroits roster include 50-goal scorers Mickey Redmond and John Ogrodnick; Hall of Famers Luc Robitaille, Dino Ciccarelli, Chris Chelios, Larry Murphy and Mark Howe; all four members of The Grind Line – Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, Darren McCarty and Joe Kocur; Stanley Cup-winning goaltenders Chris Osgood and Mike Vernon; and Red Wings legends Ted Lindsay and Alex Delvecchio. Members of the Toronto Maple Leafs alumni currently scheduled to participate on New Years Eve at Comerica Park include: Hockey Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler; 50-goal scorer Rick Vaive; fan favorites Darcy Tucker, Felix Potvin, Mike Palmateer and Kevin Maguire; Stanley Cup champions Dave Andreychuk and Doug Gilmour; rough-and-tumble winger Wendel Clark; 454-win goaltender Curtis Joseph; and Maple Leafs legends Johnny Bower, Ron Ellis and Jim McKenny. Cheap NFL Jerseys From China ." The Blue Jays came through with an impressive solution in the final game of the series. Brett Lawrie and Colby Rasmus each homered and drove in three runs and Toronto rallied from an early four-run deficit to beat Atlanta 12-4 on Sunday. Cheap NFL Jerseys China . There is no argument that the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were the best team after the first eight games of the 2011 season, with a 7-1 record. http://jasonhavens.org/cheap.html . Buck Pierce, New Mexico State (8th CFL/3rd Winnipeg) How can you not pull for a guy like this? A true warrior, that has no regard for his body and leaves it all on the field everytime he plays. MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins have filled another hole in a staff that was full of them last season, when their starters posted the second-worst ERA in the majors and 12 pitchers took at least five turns in the rotation. After finalizing a $10 million, two-year contract with Kevin Correia on Thursday, general manager Terry Ryan acknowledged theres no guarantee the right-hander will strengthen the group. Ryan said hes still looking for candidates after casting a wide net at last weeks winter meetings. "Anybody who represented a starting pitcher, I think we talked to that agent, and that was quite a few," Ryan said. "They were coming out of our suite in a rapid-fire fashion." The 32-year-old Correia was an All-Star in 2011 with Pittsburgh. He went 12-11 with a 4.21 ERA, 46 walks and only 89 strikeouts in 171 innings this year, losing his spot in the rotation when the Pirates traded for Wandy Rodriguez. Correias best season came in 2009, his first of two with San Diego, when he went 12-11 with a 3.91 ERA and 142 strikeouts in 198 innings and 33 starts. "He knows what hes doing on the mound. Hes a guy weve seen quite a bit," Ryan said. "When you start cracking his numbers, theyre very respectable." Correia, primarily a reliever with San Francisco at the beginning of his career, has pitched in parts of 10 major league seasons. He will make $4.5 million next year and $5.5 million in 2014, his first time in the American League. Correia said hes enjoyed pitching on young staffs with the Padres and Pirates, part of the reason he was attracted to the Twins. Minneapolis was the only major league city he hadnt been to, until now. "Thats fun for me to see, seeing guys progress and get better. I think with the guys we have we can surprise some people. I like that kind of team," Correia said. Ryan raised the concern of Correias adjustment to hitters he hasnt faced much, or at all, plus the addition of the designated hitter to opponent lineups in his transition between leagues. "But this guys been around long enough, where I dont think thats going to affect him," Ryan said. Ryan also noted Correias low strikeout figures, particularly in the last two years, realizing theres some risk in this investment. "Im not banking on big strikeout totals by him, because he is a big command guy," Ryan saiid.dddddddddddd Correia, though, downplayed the statistic that gets so much attention. "When I was younger, I was concerned about ERA and strikeouts and those kinds of things, but the past few years Ive been worrying about one thing, and thats winning baseball games," he said. "If Im putting up wins, the teams doing better." He added: "I can pitch different ways in different situations. If I need a strikeout, I think I have that capability, but I dont put a ton of stock of seeing how many guys I can strike out." This is the type of pitch-to-contact and rely-on-defence starter the Twins have had success with in the past but have struggled with recently. After seasons of 99 and 96 losses, the organization has begun to steer away from that mould, acquiring top prospects Alex Meyer and Trevor May in separate trades during the last two weeks with Washington and Philadelphia. But those moves are more for 2015 than 2013, so Ryan still needed to find some experience on the market. Twins starters went 39-75 with a 5.40 ERA last year, ahead of only Colorado. After adding right-hander Vance Worley in the deal with the Phillies that forced the Twins to give up centre fielder Ben Revere, they appear to have three-fifths of the rotation filled, with left-hander Scott Diamond the only returner assured of a spot. Nick Blackburn, Samuel Deduno, Cole De Vries, Liam Hendriks and P.J. Walters are among the holdovers who will get another chance to join them in spring training, but none of them did enough to put themselves in any more of a favourable position than anyone else. Kyle Gibson, the teams first-round draft pick in 2009 who is coming back from elbow ligament-replacement surgery, is a candidate but will probably be on an innings limit. Last year, the Twins signed veteran right-hander Jason Marquis to be their fifth starter, but he stumbled badly, posting an 8.47 ERA in seven starts with nine home runs allowed in 34 innings. He was released. Ryan said he didnt care to compare Marquis and Correia. "Sometimes the fit just wasnt meant to be, and I dont have an explanation for that," Ryan said. "But when he left here and went to the Padres, he did fine." Marquis went 6-7 in 15 starts for San Diego with a 4.04 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 93-plus innings. ' ' ' 

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