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• Young Scorer Changes Goals

I want to do what I do best, but sometimes you've got to take a step back and realize what the main goal is and contribute into a team system," [John Tavares] said Monday after stepping off the plane at the Calgary airport. "That's a lot of what I learned and want to bring to the table in Calgary and hopefully in the Czech Republic. It's nice to know what it takes -- accepting a role and understanding what I have to do in a team system to win. "It was hard for him and I think he learned a great lesson, because the pucks weren't going in for him and yet he was still a very valuable part of the team because he was playing that two-way game. You don't just have to score to be a part of a successful program."

...26 in Pardubice and Liberec, Czech Republic. The team will be sele...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009