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The Vancouver Canucks sent highly touted first-round draft pick Cody Hodgson back to his junior hockey team on Tuesday.
Hodgson, selected 10th overall in the 2008 NHL Draft, was widely expected to make the Canucks as a 19-year-old center after earning Canadian Junior Hockey Player of the Year honors last season while playing for Brampton in [...]

The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed forward Fredrik Modin on injured reserve and made several other moves to reduce their roster to 23 players heading into Saturdays opener against Minnesota.
General manager Scott Howson announced Tuesday that the veteran Modin, who has a knee injury, will start the year on IR.
The Blue Jackets also placed left [...]

Forward Maxim Afinogenov and defenseman Mark Popovic, who played in the preseason with the Atlanta Thrashers on pro tryouts, have signed with the team.
Afinogenov had one goal and an assist in three preseason games. The nine-year NHL veteran has 334 career points, including 134 goals, with the Buffalo Sabres. The 30-year-old native of Moscow also [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have returned forward Nazem Kadri to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League.
Kadri was the seventh overall pick in this years NHL draft. He had three goals and two assists in six preseason games.
The Leafs on Sunday also assigned forward Christian Hanson and defenseman Jonas Frogren to the Toronto Marlies [...]

Team-by-team capsules for the Eastern Conference, listed in 2008-09 season order of finish.
ATLANTIC DIVISION
NEW JERSEY DEVILS
LAST SEASON: 51-27-4, 106 points. Lost to Carolina 4-3 in first round.
COACH: Jacques Lemaire, 6th season, 199-122-57 (1993-1998); 16th overall, 540-414-177.
ADDED: C Rob Niedermayer. G Yann Danis, D Cory Murphy.
LOST: RW Brian Gionta, C John Madden, D Niclas Havelid, C [...]

The Vancouver Canucks have released NHL veteran forward Mark Parrish from a training camp tryout contract.
Parrish had two assists in four preseason games before being cut Friday. He was trying to re-ignite a career that saw him average 26 goals a season for the New York Islanders from 2001- 2006, then sign a five-year, $13.25 [...]

Team-by-team capsules for the Western Conference, listed in 2008-09 season order of finish.
CENTRAL DIVISION
DETROIT RED WINGS
LAST SEASON: 51-21-10, 112 points. Lost to Pittsburgh 4-3 in Stanley Cup finals.
COACH: Mike Babcock, 5th season 213-77-38; 7th overall, 282-139-71.
ADDED: D Doug Janik, D Andy Delmore, RW Patrick Eaves, RW Jason Williams, RW Todd Bertuzzi.
LOST: RW Marian Hossa, RW [...]

With a four-year contract, new Phoenix Coyotes coach Dave Tippett might be the most stable piece in the organization.
The Coyotes are waiting for a judge to decide their next owner.
They dont know where theyll play after this season.
Ticket sales are so slow that the team slashed prices in a desperate effort to sell out the [...]

Montreal Canadiens defenseman Patrice Brisebois retired Thursday, ending his 18-year NHL career with plans to drive on NASCARs Canadian series.
An emotional Brisebois marked the occasion by wearing the Stanley Cup ring he won with the Canadiens in 1993.
I wore it today for the first time since 1993 because I told myself that Im a winner, [...]

Long before everyone started calling him Archie, long before he became an established goaltender in the NHL, Arturs Irbe was a young Latvian trying to make his name on a strange continent with barely a word of English in his vocabulary.
I got lucky. I had a friend who played college hockey here in North America [...]