Shiffrin bumped to third in GS as Vlhova wins in Jasna
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Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova returned the favor on Sunday, knocking Mikaela Shiffrin of Edwards down to third in Sunday’s giant slalom on Vlhova’s home snow in Jasna, Slovakia. A day earlier, Shiffrin had bumped Vlhova for the slalom win.
Shiffrin was leading Sunday’s GS after the first run but was knocked down to the third and final step of the podium by both Vlhova’s stellar second run for the win and a mind-blowing second run by Alice Robinson of New Zealand for second.
A star is born: Kaprizov looks the part early in his NHL career
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Kirill Kaprizov is adept at scoring goals. He sees the game as well as some of the NHL s best playmaking forwards. By all accounts, language barrier be damned, he s already turned himself into a locker room favorite with teammates.
But according to nearly every Wild player and coach, to a man, what makes the Wild rookie forward so good is a quality that it seems every superstar player in the NHL seems to have: he works just as hard in practice as he does in games.
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