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Red Wings centre Greg Johnson announced his retirement on Wednesday.
Johnson, 35, was diagnosed with a hereditary heart abnormality during his training camp physical. He played for 12 seasons and signed with Detroit as a free agent after playing with the Nashville Predators for most of his career.
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Wachovia Center fans this year will do a double-take when they look at the new center-ice scoreboard (/nhl/app?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=280894) that takes state of the art to a new level.

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Backup David Aebischer, left, is in net as the Canadiens wrap up a season-opening three-game road trip against Peter Forsberg and the Flyers.

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See the first two spots from the NHL's new Game On! ad campaign:

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Ryan Miller and the Buffalo Sabres look to improve to 4-0 as they travel to Detroit to take on the Red Wings (7:00 p.m. ET) on TSN.

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The New York Islanders won their first game (/nhl/app?service=page&page=Recap&gnum=46&seas=20062007&gtype=2) of the season, ending their four game road trip with a 5-4 shootout victory (/nhl/app?service=page&page=Recap&gnum=46&seas=20062007&gtype=2) over the Anaheim Ducks.

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It's a pretty special group of players who have scored 500 goals. Last night, Toronto Maple Leafs Captain Mats Sundin scored his streaking down the wing and unleashing a slapshot from just inside the blue line.

Unwanted history lesson for 'Canes (http://www2.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=281005)

A struggling start (http://www2.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=281005) has the defending champion Carolina Hurricanes making some unwanted history (http://www2.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=281005). John Kreiser has more in his By The Numbers column.




Shooting Stars remain perfect (http://www2.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=Recap&gnum=72&seas=20062007&gtype=2)

The Dallas Stars withstood a last-minute tying goal by Anaheim's Andy McDonald to defeat the Ducks in a shootout (http://www2.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=Recap&gnum=72&seas=20062007&gtype=2) and improve to 5-0-0 on the season.