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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- After a short two-game trip to Florida, the Columbus Blue Jackets return home for a Tuesday night game against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Nationwide Arena. This is the second meeting in four days for the teams, having last met Friday, a 5-3 Blue Jackets win at Amalie Arena.The Blue Jackets (11-5-4) earned three of a possible four points on the road trip and currently hold the first wild card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 26 points. They currently have a 7-3-1 record at home.We hung in there, found a way to get a point, Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella told the clubs website. Five games in seven nights here at 2-1-2...well go home feeling pretty good about ourselves.We picked up right where we left off last night with how quick we were playing and how quick we were going north. You always want the extra point, but to grind away here on the road and get one (point) on a back-to-back, well take it.The Lightning (13-9-1) are third in the Atlantic Division with 27 points and have won seven of the last eight games against Columbus at Nationwide Arena. They are strong away from home, notwithstanding the 4-1 loss at TD Garden on Sunday.There (are) so many ebbs and flows, Lightning head coach John Cooper told the teams website. The lows arent that low in the big picture and the highs arent really that high. Youve got to kind of just stay the course.Its no different than when our goal scorer doesnt score in 10 and everybody uses the gripping the stick too tight (excuse). Keep going to work and eventually the goal scorers will score and guys that set up guys will set up guys and good goalies will stop pucks. Its what happens, just got to weather through it.Tortorella guided the Lightning to its only Stanley Cup Championship in 2004. He was with the Lightning for seven seasons.Former Blue Jackets head coach Todd Richards is an assistant coach to John Cooper in Tampa. In his five seasons with the Blue Jackets, Richards compiled a record of 127-112-21 to become the winningest coach in Blue Jackets history.Both teams have a potent power play, with the Blue Jackets ranking first in the league and have a 28.3 percent conversion rate. The Lightning rank fourth, converting at 23.5 percent.The Lightning are without center Steven Stamkos (out four months with a Lateral Meniscus tear in right knee), defenseman Anton Stralman (day-to-day with an upper-body injury) and right winger J.T. Brown (day-to-day with an upper-body injury).The Blue Jackets are without defenseman Dalton Prout and left winter Matt Calvert (both day-to-day with upper-body injuries).In net, Sergei Bobrovsky is expected to start for the Blue Jackets, with Ben Bishop likely to start for the Lightning.The Blue Jackets announced Monday that they traded defenseman Cody Goloubef to the Colorado Avalanche for D Ryan Stanton, with both players reporting to their new respective AHL-affiliated clubs. Nmd_r2 Sko Norge . Pirlo limped out of Sundays 1-0 win over Udinese after just 13 minutes. Juventus says Pirlo underwent tests on Monday which revealed he has "a second-degree lesion to the collateral medial ligament in his right knee. Nmd Sko Udsalg . The Australian is competing in his final season in Formula One and still looking for his first win this year. He will look to end Vettels run of six straight race wins on Sunday. Webber, who is fifth in the championship, earned his second pole from the past three races and 13th of his career. http://www.nmdnorgesalg.com/ . Pettersen, winner of last years Evian Championships, had nine birdies and three bogeys, holding off a series of challengers led by Marion Ricordeau of France. The second-ranked Norwegian made her season debut after missing the LPGA Tours opening event last month in the Bahamas because of a shoulder injury. Nmd Sko Salg . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. Billig Nmd Sko . The CFLs leading rusher kept adding to his gaudy numbers this season and scored the winning touchdown with just over two minutes to play. The New Westminster, B.C., native plowed three yards into the end zone for the last score of a heated, see-saw battle between the two teams with the best records in the CFL. LONDON -- Russia faces being kicked out of the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in the latest disciplinary action by a sports body infuriated at growing evidence about the countrys state-sponsored doping program.The International Paralympic Committees decision Friday to start suspension proceedings against Russia came two days before IOC leaders decide whether to exclude the countrys entire team from the Olympics next month in Brazil.The IPCs strong condemnation of Russias years of doping deception, including the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, pulls back on the support it gave the country last month. It follows the publication of a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren into Russias state-backed doping which found samples from Paralympic athletes were made to disappear or were swapped.The report revealed an unimaginable scale of institutionalized doping in Russian sport that was orchestrated at the highest level, IPC President Philip Craven said. McLarens findings are of serious concern for everyone committed to clean and honest sport.The IPC decried a prevailing doping culture endemic within Russian sport at the very hhighest levels and said the countrys Paralympic body appears unable or unwilling to ensure compliance with and the enforcement of anti-doping measures.dddddddddddd The IPC is sending 19 samples from the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games for immediate further analysis after McLarens investigators said they could have been doctored by Russian authorities.Russia finished second in the medal standings at the 2012 London Paralympics and has 267 athlete slots for Rio in 18 sports.A decision is expected in the week commencing Aug. 1 whether to ban Russia from the Sept. 7-18 Paralympics. Russia would have 21 days to appeal.We have started proceedings to consider the suspension of their membership of the IPC, Craven said. This decision was not taken lightly but ... Russia appears unable to fulfil its IPC membership obligations in full.Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Craven with Russias Order of Honor after the March 2014 games.---Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports ' ' '