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New?Anaheim Ducks?coach Randy Carlyle doesnt expect his team to look all that different, systematically at least, from last year.The difference will come in its lineup construction and deployment. Carlyle thinks it needs more youth and energy.You always have to transition youth into your lineup, he said during a recent phone conversation. Were a budget hockey club; were going to be forced to use younger players.With youth comes a little more pace. Its usually the veteran players who know how to slow the game down and make it work at their speed. Ryan Getzlaf is as good at that as anyone.But during offseason phone conversations between Carlyle -- who coached the Ducks from 2005-06 until early in the 2011-12 season and won a Stanley Cup with the franchise -- and his former players, like Getzlaf and Corey Perry, the pace of play became the central part of discussions.They play more of a pace game. Theyre veteran players. Thats one of the things were going to ask them -- to play the game at a higher pace, Carlyle said.He doesnt need any more proof they can do it. Carlyle watched the pair play for Team Canada in the World Cup and saw the kind of skating hes going to require from his veteran players, especially Getzlaf.And Corey Perry is in the best shape hes ever been in, Carlyle said. They put the work in. Its a tribute to them.Best new facesGM Bob Murray was aggressive in addressing his roster needs before last season, and the result was a team that took half of a season to get going. The biggest change this time around is behind the bench, while the main pieces of the roster have been essentially untouched -- except for one position.Frederik Andersen is gone as the starting goalie, with John Gibson now expected to get a majority of the starts. Gibson has long been regarded as a great, young goalie, but now comes the moment of truth. He had a .920 save percentage in 38 starts last season, even earning enough votes to finish tied for seventh in the Vezina.After the Maple Leafs gave Jonathan Bernier his signing bonus, the Ducks grabbed him in a trade for a conditional draft pick. It was a shrewd move for a budget-conscious team that has cap space but gets Bernier at a discount, after Toronto paid his bonus.Bernier had his best season as a starter while playing for Carlyle in Toronto, finishing the 2013-14 season with a .923 save percentage. He struggled last season, but playing for a bad team tends to do that to goalies.Everybody in the league is looking more to the 1A and 1B situations, Carlyle said. Yes, Gibby is highly rated. Its hard not to give him an opportunity. Goaltenders have to earn it. You have to earn it night in and night out. We feel we have a capable option in Jonathan Bernier.Biggest unknownsIts not particularly great that the Ducks had two restricted free-agent no-shows at the start of training camp, with Hampus Lindholm and Rickard Rakell?both still unsigned when camp began. Not only was Rakell unsigned, he was dealing with complications that followed his appendectomy in September.Even if both of those situations get settled, you never know how a player is going to react following an intense contract negotiation.The bigger concern in Anaheim is the possibility of a decline coming from its aging stars. The Ducks are very dependent on the trio of Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan Kesler. When theyre on and playing well, the Ducks can beat anybody. Theyre also at the collective age where its not unreasonable to expect some depreciation, especially considering the style in which they play. As the league speeds up and gets younger, its quite possible that trio will get old in a hurry. Maybe not this year ... but the clock is ticking.Sure thingsHeres one --?Sami Vatanen is going to outplay the value of his contract. During an offseason in which teams struggled to get deals done with their restricted free agents, Vatanen was off Anaheims to-do list quite early. He signed a four-year deal worth $19.5 million in mid-June.With an average annual value of $4.875 million, his contract is going to look good in a hurry.I wanted to be there, Vatanen said. That was the main thing. I saw the GM and coaches -- they wanted me there. It helped a lot. Im very happy about that.They wanted the 25-year-old defenseman for good reason. He has pushed 40 points each of the last two seasons, is offensively gifted and is a right-handed shot. Lindholm is the best pure defenseman on the roster, good enough to challenge for a Norris Trophy at some point. But Vatanen is the kind of defenseman you need behind your top guys to keep the puck moving in the right direction.PredictionThe Duck have concerns. Is John Gibson ready to be a full-time starter? Will the contract issues linger into the season? How will the team respond to the return of Randy Carlyle?But, ultimately, this team has too many good defensemen and star power up front to decline too far below their 103-point total from last season. The Ducks will clear the playoff hurdle but maybe not as easily as theyd like to. Second place in the Pacific.Wayne Chrebet Youth Jersey . Wilson hit Schenn from behind during Tuesday nights game in Philadelphia, earning a five-minute major for charging and a game misconduct. He has a phone hearing with the department of player safety, which limits any potential suspension to five or fewer games. Quinnen Williams Womens Jersey . 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World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 237.71 points, Moore-Towers and Moscovitch followed at 208.45 and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were third at 187.SAINT-LO, France -- Featuring two individual time trials and a lot of mountains, the Tour de France route suits titleholder Chris Froome very well. The British allrounder, however, believes pure climbing specialists will excel in the heat of the French summer.Its a route that is very much a climbers route, Froome told The Associated Press in a TV interview ahead of the Tour starting at Mont Saint-Michel on Saturday. Even though we have two time trials, they are very hilly time trials.Those two stages take place in the second half of the 3,519-kilometer three-week race. The first one, on Stage 13, is on 37.5 kilometers of rolling terrain in the Ardeche region, and comes a day after the daunting ascent of Mont Ventoux, where Froome made his mark in 2013 for his first Tour triumph.The second time trial, in the Alps, will be the Tours first mountain time trial since the 2004 ascent of lAlpe dHuez.The guys who climb well should go right in them, Froome said.Careful of maintaining a sense of suspense until the very end of the race, Tour organizers have chiseled a well-balanced route with many opportunities for Froomes main rivals, Nairo Quintana, Alberto Contador, and Fabio Aru, as well as the French duo of Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet.The race features 28 mountain passes and four very hard stages in four days in the final week, where the trio of main contenders is expected to be amonng the leaders and on the attack.ddddddddddddIn 2013 and 2015, Froome lost time to Quintana in the closing mountain stages. But he has slightly changed his schedule this year in order to maintain his peak longer, especially as he will be competing in the road race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.If that different approach bears fruit, Froome should be in a better shape come the third week of the Tour.Hes coming up to top form a bit later, and hell try to hold onto that through to the Olympics and the second part of the season, Team Sky boss Dave Brailsford said. He is in great shape.In his quest to become just the eighth rider to win three Tours, Froome will be helped by the strongest team of the field. Team Sky features Sergio Henao, Mikel Landa, Woet Poels, and Geraint Thomas, who will be key assets during the nine mountain stages.Weve got a fantastic team. Ive got a lot of confidence in my teammates, Froome said at his team hotel in Normandy. I feel privileged to be in a position to be leading a lineup of guys like that. Guys who can be leaders in their own right have come here to support me. Its something that gives me a lot of confidence coming into the Tour de France.---Associated Press writer Hernan Munoz Ratto contributed to this report. ' ' '