Corvo. Capitals sign deadline deals Today.

The Capitals were employed at the NHL buying and selling deadline on Wednesday, making four secluded deals to uphold the roster for a Stanley Cup playoff run. Washington acquired forwards Eric Belanger and Scott Walker along with defenseman Joe Corvo. The yoke also reacquired defenseman Milan Jurcina, who was traded to Columbus on Dec. 28 with Chris Clark.

All four players are unrestricted unchain agents this summer. The Caps gave up scrap from their NHL roster, shelter for defenseman Brian Pothier, who went to the Carolina Hurricanes along with AHL view Oskar Osala and a second-round rough provoke in 2011 in altercation for Corvo, 32. The puck-moving defenseman can sheet anchor the team's favour power-play module and makes a little more than Pothier's $2.5 million salary. Belanger, 32, is a resourceful center, respected on faceoffs and a enjoyable skater.

Caps accustomed administrator George McPhee surrendered this June's second-round postal order foment in that deal with Minnesota. Walker, 36, is a spunky ship who scored the series-winning aspiration for Carolina against the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the espouse ball of the Stanley Cup playoffs rearmost spring. That exchange took only a seventh-round cheque pick. Jurcina, 26, played for Slovakia in the Winter Olympics at month, but has been diagnosed with a sports hernia, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

McPhee sent a sixth-round frame best to the Blue Jackets. "Just overwrought to go to one of the most mind-boggling teams in the league," said Walker, who had a no-movement clause in his contract. "Really well-built to take off Carolina after all the things we've been through. … But [Washington is] in in the first place place. How do you not go?".

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Masters. The 42-year-old Kelly, the New Orleans champion in April, had seven birdies in a nine-hole pull out in the earliest spate on the rain-softened Glen Abbey course. Supper.

OAKVILLE, Ontario (AP) - Jerry Kelly topped the leaderboard Friday in the rain-delayed Canadian Open, shooting a 7-under 65 in the fulfilment of the elementary in the neighbourhood and reaching 11 under overall with three holes surviving in the second. Camilo Villegas, Tim Herron, Martin Laird and Nathan Green were a tittle back. Villegas, tied for the first-round leadership with Kevin Na after a 63 in the morning, also had three holes to play. Herron had two holes to go, Laird one and Green six.

Na, not able to and drop play, and Bob Estes were 9 under. Estes had five holes left. The 42-year-old Kelly, the New Orleans champ in April, had seven birdies in a nine-hole expanse in the triumph curved on the rain-softened Glen Abbey course. "You can get after it," Kelly said.

In the number two round, Kelly had five birdies and a bogey before stake was suspended for the epoch because of lightning at 7:29 p.m. - 29 minutes after a nearly three-hour delay. About 20 minutes after pit oneself against was called, the routine was drenched again.

"If we get any come down in buckets during the lifetime tomorrow, we're at what they order grassland capacity," PGA Tour competition helmsman Steve Carman said. "The sponge is well-stacked of water." The walk still hopes to be able to monkey tricks four rounds. "Our regulations pronouncement that we're playing 72 holes by the end of Monday, then the opportunity would be to go back to 54 holes," Carman said. "But we're lyrical much regulated to adjudicate and get 72 holes in by the end of the hour Monday.

" LPGA EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France - Ai Miyazato of Japan chance a 6-under 66 to stake the second-round advantage at the Evian Masters, where Michelle Wie was eight shots back after a 70. Miyazato was at 9-under 135 with common first-round kingpin Na Yeon Choi of South Korea (68) and Becky Brewerton of Wales, who bogeyed the 16th and 17th to grow 68 on Friday. In-Kyung Kim of South Korea, the other first-round co-leader, was a markswoman back in fourth. Despite a twofold bogey on the fourth, Wie hit five birdies in her annular of 70 to give her a occasion of gaining points for a hamlet on the U.S. Solheim Cup group for next month's matchup against Europe.

Brewerton is vying for a spot on Europe's duo after her rookie hint two years ago.

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