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the club assigned goaltender Joacim Eriksson to the AHL Utica Comets on
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still not healthy enough to play against Tampa Bay on Wednesday night.
Eddie Lack drew his third straight start and fourth appearance since Luongo got
hurt, while Eriksson was given the backup assignment. Speaking to reporters for
the first time since he was sidelined, Luongo revealed how he got hurt, but
would not disclose the extent of the injury, other than to say it was a
lower-body problem. "It was an Evander Kane shot down the wing that originally
got me a little bit," said Luongo. "I tried to stay in the game a few more
minutes and then kept feeling it during the play and felt it again on another
shot." Luongo left the game late in the first period during a TV timeout after
consulting with trainer Mike Bernstein. The Canucks were 1-2 without Luongo in
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Champs-Elysees.PHOENIX -- The Arizona Diamondbacks have extended the contracts
of manager Kirk Gibson and general manager Kevin Towers. Contracts for both had
been set to expire after the coming season. The team would not divulge the
lengths of the contracts or even whether the lengths were the same for both.
Team President Derrick Hall said after Mondays announcement that Gibson and
Towers asked that the length of the deals be kept secret. "I dont understand why
the contracts of people in management are public knowledge," Towers said. "Its
between myself, Derrick, (managing general partner) Ken (Kendrick) and Gibby."
Last October, the team declined to exercise options to extend both contracts,
but Hall said he has felt all along that the Diamondbacks shouldnt go into the
season with the two facing the last year of their deals. "Theres constant
distraction and a labeling of whos on the hot seat," Hall said, "Are they
feeling the pressure?" Besides, Hall said, "These are guys I have a lot of
confidence in." In fact, Hall said he probably would have preferred to have the
extensions in place sooner. He said that when the contracts werent extended last
fall, it was with the understanding that there would be talks on a new deal for
both. Gibson and Towers have had three full seasons together, and their most
successful was their first. The Diamondbacks won 94 games in 2012 and took the
NL West title before falling to Milwaukee in five games in the divisional
playoffs. Arizona has gone 81-81 each of the past two seasons. "Im certainly
very excited," Towers said, "as is Gibby. This is a place where we hope we get
to spend the rest of our careers at." Gibson, a standout football player at
Michigan State, played 17 seasons in the majors, 12 with the Detroit Tigers. He
signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988, earning the NL most valuable player
award. In the pllayoffs that season, he hit one of the most memorable home runs
in World Series history.
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one leg because of a severe knee injury, Gibson hit a game-winning, two-run home
run off Oaklands Dennis Eckersley in Game 1, limping around the bases and
pumping his fist in triumph. The Dodgers went on to win the series. Gibson was
hired as Arizonas bench coach in 2007 and was named interim manager when A.J.
Hinch was fired on July 1, 2010. Towers, former GM of the San Diego Padres, came
on board as general manager in September of that year, and one of his first
decisions was whether to keep Gibson as manager. He did and the team went on to
have that highly successful 2010 season. But the Diamondbacks stumbled the next
two seasons in the vastly improved NL West, with pitching-rich San Francisco
winning in 2012 and the just-plain-rich Dodgers taking it in 2013. Towers said
he wants to develop "a ball club that not only has a chance to win the NL West
but hopefully go deep into the post-season." "I dont take these things lightly,"
he said. "There are only 30 of these jobs." He said that the jobs "arent easy"
and require the confidence of the clubs top executives and ownership. Towers
said that going into the final year of a contract probably would have been more
of a distraction for Gibson, given the high public profile of the managers job
and his duties directing a teams day-to-day operation. Pitchers and catchers
report for spring training at the Diamondbacks Scottsdale facility on Thursday.
They are the first team to begin spring training because of Arizonas early
season-opening two-game series against the Dodgers in Australia. Towers has said
the team wants to acquire a No. 1 starter, but added on Monday "theres not too
many of those guys out there." "The markets not the same as it was two months
ago," he said.
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