“If they are good at self evaluating, they can look at it and figure out what they need to get better at,” Blashill said Saturday. “What they can control is self evaluating, what do I need to get better at to earn a spot. That’s what you get by being around the NHL guys and by practicing with them. Then the other part of it, you get a lot of one-on-one attention with our skills development group.”

My favorite taxi squad featured Andy Kaufman.

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Trebek, 80, died on Nov. 8, almost two years after revealing he had pancreatic cancer.