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CRANBERRY, Pa. -- If there is such a thing as a Stanley Cup hangover, the Pittsburgh Penguins are trying to avoid it. So they came up with their equivalent of taking an aspirin before the party.The club talked a lot about taking a certain approach -- enjoy all the ceremonies and celebrations, including the banner-raising Thursday before their season opener at PPG Paints Arena, then make a point of turning the page to the new season.So far, so good.The Penguins beat Washington 3-2 in a shootout in the season opener, and felt back in the swing of things by practice on Friday as they prepared for a visit from the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night.From training camp, to the visit to the White House, to getting our rings, to (Thursday) night, when Sid (Crosby) took the Cup on the ice, to the fans, we did all that, goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, the winner Thursday after making 39 saves and stopping Alex Ovechkins shootout attempt to wrap up the win, said Friday. After that, today, it feels like a new season. Were ready to start over, start fresh and get back into the routine.With fellow goalie Matt Murray still recovering from a thumb injury, Fleury figures to get the start again.Its not clear who will start for the Ducks.John Gibson, a native of Whitehall, Pa., in suburban Pittsburgh, stopped 20 of 24 shots Thursday in a 4-2 loss at Dallas to open the season. The other option is Jonathan Bernier, who had a strong preseason.They had good chances, Gibson said of the Stars, according to the Los Angeles times. Some nights I make those saves, and (Thursday) I didnt seem to make them.Anaheim will be looking for its first win under new and former coach Randy Carlyle. The Ducks were 0-for-5 on the power play against Dallas, and Carlyle did not like his teams defensive effort in front of Gibson.How can you allow a team to score three from the top of the crease? Thats blowing coverage and thats missed coverage, and those are assignments we will definitely recover from, Carlyle told the Times. Well make sure those things dont happen again.Pittsburgh, meanwhile, almost surely will be playing without Crosby, their captain and the Conn Smythe Trophy winner who is out with a concussion.The team is happy with his progress -- which allowed him to skate, in uniform, onto the ice with the Cup during Thursday nights pregame banner-raising ceremony -- but Crosby skated separately from the team Friday.The Penguins other star center, Evgeni Malkin, had a goal and assist and added a shootout goal on Thursday.Obviously, Geno is an important guy for us, winger Chris Kunitz said. (Thursday) night he showed he can change a game. He and (defenseman Kris Letang) are two guys out team needs to win some games while Sids out.Most teams dont have that luxury. Were very fortunate.And, if the Penguins can help it, they are living very much in the present rather than enjoying the vapors of that Stanley Cup win.Playing a game 48 hours after their opener, and moving from a familiar rival to a Western Conference team that requires some extra homework, could help.The first shift (Thursday), when guys are coming at you, thats when you know its time for the games, Pittsburgh defenseman Brian Dumoulin said. Preseason games are fun -- theyre good to get back in the swing of things -- but that was a real game, especially against a good team like Washington.Its weird to start off with such a familiar team as Washington. Then I dont even remember the last time we played Anaheim. Vapormax Til Salg . Jon Montgomerys gold medal in skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre and his subsequent auctioning off of a pitcher of beer in the village square elevated him to folk-hero status. Nike Vapormax Plus Norge . 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The Spokane goaltender finished with 28 saves, including a Brandon Fushimi penalty shot in the second period that would have tied the game 1-1. Vapormax Hvit Dame Norge . Wall made the comment in a speech to a Regina business crowd that included Lesnar. The U.S. wrestler and retired mixed martial artist says he was visiting his brothers farm in Saskatchewan and decided he wanted to hear what the premier had to say. A day after arguably the worst loss in Gus Bradleys tenure, the Jacksonville Jaguars coach still had few answers for what went wrong.The Jaguars (0-2) were completely dismantled in a 38-14 loss at San Diego on Sunday, the franchises seventh straight setback on the West Coast. They trailed by three touchdowns early, failed to get back in the game and did little right in losing their fifth consecutive game.It dropped Bradleys record to 12-38 in four seasons -- the second-worst winning percentage in NFL history for anyone who has coached at least 50 games -- and renewed questions about his job security.There was not much good to take from the game, Bradley said Monday. Were well aware that as a team we did not play very well. It wasnt to our standard. You try to find some things that are positive, and Im sure there are. As a whole, when youre down 35-0 going into the fourth quarter, theres not a lot of good that took place.Its hardly anything new for the Jaguars, who started 0-2 for the fourth time in the last five seasons. Of Bradleys 38 losses, 25 of them have been by double digits.Owner Shad Khan and general manager Dave Caldwell essentially wrote off the first two-plus years of the Bradley era because the team was in the early stages of a massive rebuilding project. But this year was supposed to be different . The Jaguars were expected to, at the very least, show up in San Diego and look capable of playing winning football.Instead, they proved to be the same old Jags.Costly turnovers. Silly penalties. Porous defense. Ineffective offense. Missed opportunities. The Jaguars have experienced all of those all too often.dddddddddddd The latest lackluster effort caused the FireGus hashtag to trend on Twitter in the Jacksonville area.The question now is whether the loss will prove to be a one-week fluke or turn into a season-long funk.I think you really rely on the character of the team, Bradley said. I know weve bounced back before. The character and the pride of this team are great. I know its just conversations with them, the mindset, lets get this right. ... Whenever you go through a game like that, theres frustration.Theres frustration in the coaching staff, the players that we just didnt show up and play to the best of our abilities. Thats what is frustrating. Thats more of a feeling now talking to our players is that we know we have the capability of playing at a much higher level and we didnt.Jacksonville gets a chance to rebound Sunday against Baltimore (2-0). It might be the first must-win game in Bradleys career. If the Jaguars lose, they will head to London 0-3 to play Indianapolis. If that happens, Bradley could be coaching for his job before the bye week.We have to get right, Bradley said. The meeting we had with the players, they understand it, too. They are professionals. They all understand that we cannot have that kind of performance. We all believe that we are a good team, but we just didnt play like we were a good team. Thats what we have to get back to.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '