BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins won twice and lost once during their season-opening trip despite missing center Patrice Bergeron because of a lower-body injury.When they host the New Jersey Devils at TD Garden in their home opener Thursday night, the Bruins are expected to have their scoring leader back.Bergeron, an alternate captain and a three-time 30-goal scorer, practiced with the Bruins on Wednesday at Warrior Ice Arena for the first time since he suffered the injury near the end of practice Oct. 12. Theres a strong possibility he will be back in the lineup against the Devils.Of course. I want to be (back) as fast as possible, Bergeron said. Thats the talk Ive had all week with (the medical staff). But at the same time you have to respect their opinion that theyre the ones that are putting the team and my interest in front and making sure were all taking care of that. So well see what happens. Obviously Id like to be on the ice, but ... hopefully I feel good tonight and tomorrow morning and we can go from there.Bergeron said he felt fine after going through the entire practice and not being limited in his activities. He wouldnt get more specific about his injury and would only say, It was in practice. I just hurt myself.Bruins coach Claude Julien expects to have Bergeron in the lineup.Unless Im told otherwise today or tomorrow when he comes in and feels any different, I think were hoping hes going to be in the lineup, Julien said.The Bruins made do without Bergeron by moving David Backes from right wing to center between Bergerons expected linemates Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak. The line of Backes, Marchand and Pastrnak combined for 16 points in the Bruins three games. Bergeron is expected to get his old spot back with Backes moving to another line.The Bruins, who start a three-game homestand against the Devils, were 17-8-6 last season and their home struggles contributed to their missing the Stanley Cup playoffs for a second straight season. Coming off a relatively successful road trip, Boston knows it needs to exercise some home dominance to prove its an improved team.We all know weve still got to improve as a hockey club, Julien said. And theres areas where we need to be better. But the fact that we were able to get through this road trip with a bunch of new players, the first road trip, and come out of there with a winning record is a good thing. So weve got to follow it up with this short home stretch here and hopefully we can build on that.Having Bergeron back should help the Bruins attempt to keep improving. Cheap Air Max For Sale . 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From filmmaker Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes), The Price of Gold revisits the saga that rocked the figure skating world ahead of the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games: the assault on Nancy Kerrigan, and the plot that led its way back to her rival Tonya Harding.The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Friday that Benito Floro is the new head coach of Canadas mens national team. Floro takes over the reigns from Stephen Hart, who resigned after Canadas 8-1 loss to Honduras in World Cup qualifying in October 2012. Floro has over 30 years of coaching experience, including a stint in charge of Real Madrid from 1992-94, and will bring with him a wealth of knowledge gained from around the world. His career has taken him from clubs at the highest level of Spanish football, to coaching positions abroad at clubs in Japan, Mexico, Ecuador and Morocco. Critics of this hire will point to the fact that this will be Floros first job coaching a national team; that he has never had to prepare a team to compete without the relative luxury of the daily contact that is afforded to coaches at the club level. I dont believe that this argument carries much weight; an experienced coach like Floro will be able to adapt to the intricacies of international football with relative ease. In my opinion, his strengths – decades of coaching experience, multi-lingualism (this is a big plus, given the multicultural nature of our country) and a wealth of experience as a coach educator – far outweigh this weakness. Victor Montagliani, President of the CSA, told me this: "Its not just about the 20 or so guys he will be coaching at any point in time on the mens team. He is one of the top coach educators in Spain. While that is not going to be his mandate, he is going to be a fantastic resource for Tony Fonseca in coach education. "He has a presence. Certain guys, when they walk in the room, you take notice. Benito Floro has presence." The presence that Montagliani refers to will help Floro when it comes to coaching the mens team, but I believe that his background in coach education could be where Canadian soccer will see its biggest gain. Floro will be restricted to working with "what he has" on the mens national team, as he will not be in a position to develop players quickly enough to affect qualifying for the World Cup in 2018. He will, however, be in a position to leave a legacy behind if he can also play a role in developing the next generation of Canadian coacches.dddddddddddd. It is this area where his knowledge and experience will be a considerable asset to Tony Fonseca, the CSAs Technical Director, as Fonseca looks to improve the CSAs coach education program. A key component of that program will be a brand new national curriculum - something that is currently being assembled, and should be fully completed by the end of the calendar year. This is big news. Canada has never had a national curriculum – a resource for coaches across the country to use in training and developing the next generation of Canadian players. All that is about to change. Up until now, player development in Canada has been by chance, not by design. Players had to fight their way through a broken, fractured mess of a development system, which saw too many talented youngsters slip through the cracks. With a national curriculum in place - coupled with the implementation of high-performance youth leagues in our major provinces (to begin with) - we may finally start to see Canadian players being developed by design, rather than hoping for the best. What I like about the way Fonseca is assembling the national curriculum is this: it is being done collaboratively. Fonseca is not force-feeding a document to the provincial associations that was developed in secrecy. Instead, he has enlisted the provincial association technical directors to help write the content. He will have final approval over that content, but much of the workload in creating the curriculum is being shared by the provincial TDs. This allows the provincial associations to take ownership of the document, knowing that their technical staff played a big role in its creation. It also makes it far easier to implement, as the provincial associations will be much more inclined to buy in to something that they played a direct role in creating. The hiring of Benito Floro and the creation of a new national curriculum are positive moves from the CSA, but it is important to take a long-term approach when measuring the benefits of those moves. No one – including Floro – can solve all of our problems overnight. But on Friday, Canadian soccer took a big step forward. And for that, the CSA should be applauded. ' ' '