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Anaheim Ducks general manager Bob Murray isn't interested in bringing in more new faces, at least not to start the 2014-15 season. Murray acquired a half-dozen players in the offseason who will play significant roles, and they need to be integrated quickly.

That's why Murray declared on the first day of training camp that he's not inclined to, say, beef up his defense more even though Anaheim has about $9.3 million worth of space under the salary cap, according to CapGeek.com.

"I want to get to the 20-25 game mark, where we've played enough home and road games and we've had hopefully, healthy people, and I can evaluate where this hockey team is at," Murray said.

"Obviously we have good cap space left. Obviously we have some pretty good assets if I feel a need for a change in the hockey team. But let's get to that point. Let's see what we have. There's seven new bodies in that dressing room. There's some jobs up for grabs this year. We've got some great competition for certain jobs here. You can figure out who they are and I hope the players have got it figured out."

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Ryan Kesler finished a media session with reporters after a morning skate and the conversation turned toward the weather.

Kesler has been in Southern California for about a month, and the daytime temperature rarely dipped below 85 degrees. On a day off, he rode bikes with his family around the postcard Orange County beach cities of Laguna Beach and Corona del Mar.

"It's a beautiful spot," Kesler said. "Does it ever rain here? It's amazing. No complaints. The family loves it."

Told that the locals consider 55 degrees to be seriously cold, Kesler was almost dumbfounded.

"Fifty-five? That's shorts weather," he said.

ST. LOUIS -- The last piece of the St. Louis Blues roster for the 2014-15 season stepped onto the Scottrade Center ice Monday. Now the Blues can focus on the task at hand, which is working toward winning a Stanley Cup.

Restricted free agent forward Jaden Schwartz agreed to terms Saturday on a two-year contract worth $4.7 million ($2.35 million average annual value).

Without Schwartz, who will get $2 million this season and $2.7 million in 2015-16, the Blues would have had a big void to fill after the 22-year-old had a breakout 2013-14 with 25 goals and 56 points.

Schwartz, who missed 10 days of training camp, said Monday he hopes to get caught up quickly.

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There are those who are cool under pressure, and then there is T.J. Oshie.

The St. Louis Blues wing seems to live for the high-stress moments, on the ice and off it. At his day job, Oshie has grown into a bankable NHL star thanks to his skills in the shootout. Away from the arena, Oshie has embraced becoming a fiancé, a father and a pillar of the St. Louis community in a span of months with even greater calm and confidence.

Over six NHL seasons, Oshie is 27-for-48 (56.2 percent) in shootouts, including 9-for-12 last season. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Oshie's prowess approached legendary status when he converted four of six shootout attempts to lift the United States past Russia, 3-2.

"It's the one thing in hockey where I'm very confident I'm going to score every time," Oshie said. "I think it's a big part of the game. [The Blues] used to not practice it ever, but over the last couple seasons I've been telling the coaches and goalie coaches, 'Hey, these are points, so we need to work on it.'"

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Ken Hitchcock sat at his desk recently, beginning his fourth season as coach of the St. Louis Blues, and he couldn't recall a time when his players came to training camp in better shape and in a better frame of mind.

The 62-year-old, who coached the Blues to the Stanley Cup Playoffs the past three seasons, has stood by and watched his core group of players grow up.

The Blues, who have been eliminated by the Los Angeles Kings (2012 and '13) and Chicago Blackhawks (2014) the past three seasons, in the past would often soak up all the attention received as Stanley Cup favorites. Because they hadn't qualified for the playoffs in five of the six seasons prior to this three-year run, the players became a bit overwhelmed by the attention they were receiving.

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When the St. Louis Blues skated off the ice at United Center in April following a Game 6 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference First Round, it signified another disappointing exit from the Stanley Cup Playoffs after a promising regular season.

It marked the third straight season the Blues were eliminated earlier than expected.

After losing to the Los Angeles Kings the previous two seasons and the Blackhawks last spring, the players took the onus on themselves to make marked improvements. It was time to look in the mirror.

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Duplicating last season's success will be difficult for the Colorado Avalanche following their surprising Central Division championship, franchise record-tying 52 wins and first Stanley Cup Playoffs appearance in four years.

Patrick Roy was awarded the Jack Adams Trophy in his first season as Avalanche coach after guiding the team to a 52-22-8 record and 112 points, the second-highest total in franchise history, and re-energizing what had been an indifferent fan base. The Avalanche lost in seven games to the Minnesota Wild in the Western Conference First Round, but the experience was viewed as a necessary step in a young team's development.

One year after saying he hoped the Avalanche could "shock the world of hockey," Roy said the goal this season is to qualify for the playoffs again and make a deeper postseason run despite rugged competition in the division and Western Conference.

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The goal for the Colorado Avalanche last season was to return to respectability and earn a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, targets that were achieved under former star goalie and rookie coach Patrick Roy, who guided the team to a 52-22-8 record and won the Jack Adams Award.

The objective this season is to build on that success, even if it doesn't result in another Central Division championship, and to make a deep run in the postseason.

"I know why I was coach of the year, because I have a special group," Roy said. "They're the ones who were the difference last year, the ones who came to camp with a purpose and wanted to be different. As a coach you establish some values that you want to have, and these guys did that perfectly. We certainly have different words that we use -- partnership, trust and respect -- and these guys have bought into that.

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Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog certainly didn't like the feeling he had as he skated off the ice at Pepsi Center on the final day of April.

The Avalanche had four one-goal leads in Game 7 of their Western Conference First Round series against the Minnesota Wild but couldn't hold any of them. The game ended 5:02 into overtime on a goal by the Wild's Nino Niederreiter.

The end left a sour taste after what had been an outstanding regular season that saw the Avalanche tie a franchise record with 52 victories, win their first division title since 2003 and make the Stanley Cup Playoffs one season after finishing with the second-fewest points in the NHL.