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CHICAGO - New coach. Same result _ so it seemed for two periods, anyway. The Chicago Blackhawks were plodding again and seemed on their way to another loss in Denis Savard's first game as head coach. And then, everything changed.

Tuomo Ruutu took advantage of an opportunity and scored with 1:48 left to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over Dallas on Wednesday night.

Ruutu's shot trickl...

Daily Record NEWS 30 November 2006 BROWN BABY AGONY Little Fraser, 4 months, has cystic fibrosisBy James Lyons

GORDON Brown's baby son Fraser has an incurable lung disease.

The four-month-old tot is suffering from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder. Victims have an average life expectancy of 31.

The Chancellor and wife Sarah lost their first child, daughter Jennifer Jane, in...

By Andrew Seligman, The Associated PressCHICAGO - New coach. Same result — so it seemed for two periods, anyway.

The Chicago Blackhawks were plodding again and seemed on their way to another loss in Denis Savard's first game as head coach. And then, everything changed.

Tuomo Ruutu took advantage of an opportunity and scored with 1:48 left to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over Da...

CHICAGO - New coach. Same result _ so it seemed for two periods, anyway. The Chicago Blackhawks were plodding again and seemed on their way to another loss in Denis Savard's first game as head coach. And then, everything changed.

Tuomo Ruutu took advantage of an opportunity and scored with 1:48 left to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over Dallas on Wednesday night.

Ruutu's shot trickle...

Tuomo Ruutu took advantage of an opportunity and scored with 1:48 left to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over Dallas on Wednesday night.

Ruutu's shot trickled between goalie Marty Turco's pads after the Chicago center started the play by stealing the puck from Dallas star Mike Modano.

The goal, Ruutu's fifth of the season and fourth in five games, gave the Blackhawks their fourth vic...

CHICAGO - Tuomu Ruutu scored with 1:48 left to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over Dallas on Wednesday night in Denis Savard's first game as the Blackhawks' head coach.

Ruutu's shot trickled between goalie Marty Turco's pads after the Chicago center started the play by stealing the puck from Dallas star Mike Modano.

The goal, Ruutu's fifth of the season and fourth in five games, ga...

The Blues have 13 regulation losses, scoring two or fewer goals in all of them, and they're in 12th place in the Western Conference, and only two points from the bottom. A 2-0 shutout loss to the San Jose Sharks, in which they took 29 shots but barely tested Vesa Toskala, was just the latest example of the offensive slump.

Coach Mike Kitchen, whose team finished last overall in the NHL l...

Wheat Ridge's Connor Wright, tackling ThunderRidge fullback Ben Faddis in the Farmers' win against the Grizzlies in September, is among a group of Wheat Ridge seniors eager to make the most of their final season after three disappointing years as underclassmen. STORY TOOLS Email this story Print

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