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A source told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun of ESPN.com that Kris Letangs camp informed the Penguins on Thursday night that they were turning down an eight-year contract offer worth about $56 million. LeBrun added that whether more contract talks are coming or whether the Penguins put Letang on the trade market remains to be seen. LeBrun was also told by a source that Letangs camp counter-offered with a long-term deal which would pay less than $8 million - but more than $7.5 million - and the Penguins said it was too high. Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported on Wednesday that Letang preferred the Toronto Maple Leafs atop a potential list of teams to go to should he be unable to sign an extension with the Penguins. One year ago, the Penguins traded Jordan Staal to the Carolina Hurricanes after he also declined a long-term contract extension. Where possible trades are concerned, Letang himself has no final say on who his next team would be. Rossi told TSN Radio 1050 on Wednesday, "Ive been told that if the Penguins couldnt reach some sort of understanding with Letang, and the belief was they wouldnt be able to sign him to some sort of deal, that Toronto has emerged as a preferred landing spot - perhaps by Letang. It would be a place that he would be willing, if dealt, to perhaps sign a long-term deal." Replica Jerseys . 4 Villanova with a 96-68 drubbing on Monday. Wragge hit 9-of-14 from behind the arc, matching Kyle Korvers school record for 3-pointers in a game set in 2003, as Creighton (16-3, 6-1 Big East broke a conference record with 21 treys in the rout. Fake Jerseys From China . No. 13-seeded John Isner and No. 21 Philipp Kohlschreiber were among six players who dropped out of the tournament on Tuesday, joining No. 12 seed Tommy Haas and two other players who withdrew on Monday. https://www.fakejerseys.us.com/ . 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The new retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium was not closed.I played extremely well. Tactically, played a good match, Murray said. And I served very well when I was behind in the games. Got a lot of free points with my serve, and that was important.He was credited with one serve at 141 mph, which he said would be the first of his career that topped 140.I served one at 145 in San Jose, but the next day, Murray said with a smile, they recalibrated the gun because it was completely wrong.The 2012 champion at Flushing Meadows will face No. 6 seed Kei Nishikori in the quarterfinals Wednesday. Nishikori earned a straight-sets victory over No. 21 seed Ivo Karlovic.Nishikori, the 2014 runner-up, won 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Monday in the last singles match at the current Louis Armstrong Stadium, which will be torn down after the tournament. A new venue to be built to replace it.Karlovic, 37, was the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam round of 16 since Jimmy Connors at the 1991 U.S. Open. At 6-foot-11, Karlovic set a tournament record with 61 aces in a five-set win in the first round.Unlike Murray and Nishikori, two-time major champion Stan Wawrinka had a tougher road to the quarterfinals.Wawrinka blew a lead and smashed a racket, but he eventually pulled out a four-set victory to reach a fourth straight US Open quarterfinal.After saving a match point in a five-set win in his last outing, Wawrinka was cruising against 63rd-ranked Illya Marchenko, who was playing in his first Grand Slam round of 16. Serving for the match in the third set, the third-seeded Wawrinka was broken and then lost a tiebreaker.After going down a break early in the fourth set, Wawrinka took his frustrations out on his racket. He proceeded to win the next four games to regain control oon the way to a 6-4, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 victory Monday.ddddddddddddMarchenko had dropped the first set of his third-round match against 14th-seeded Nick Kyrgios but won the next two as the Australian struggled with a hip injury that eventually forced him to retire.Wawrinka next faces 2009 US Open champ Juan Martin del Potro, who beat Wawrinka at Wimbledon this year.Del Potro is back in the quarterfinals after Dominic Thiem retired in the second set of their match.The eighth-seeded Thiem took a medical timeout to have trainers look at his right knee after the sets fifth game. He returned to the court for one point before deciding he couldnt go on.Thiem said his knee started hurting three days earlier, and he speculated it was the indirect result of blisters on his feet -- he needed to alter his gait to compensate. Late in the first set Monday, it started getting worse. He didnt want to take any risks with a knee injury and planned to get an MRI.I couldnt bend it too much the last three days, he said. So I was all the time a little bit handicapped.Del Potro had won the first set 6-3 and was up a break in the second.Thiem, who turned 23 on Saturday, has had a breakthrough year, reaching the French Open semifinals and cracking the top 10. But the long season was starting to wear on his body.Del Potro knows all about that. He missed the tournament the past two years after surgeries on his left wrist. But his stunning run to the Olympic silver medal signaled that he is a contender again.Del Potro got a huge break Monday when he spent only 72 minutes on court. He has played just 10-plus sets through four rounds, but still expects to be the underdog.[Wawrinka] will be the favorite to win in that match, del Potro insisted, before adding: But anything can happen in this event for me. I got the power from the crowd in every match.At No. 142, del Potro is the lowest-ranked US Open quarterfinalist since Jimmy Connors in 1991.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '