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Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - The Nashville Predators placed defenseman Hal Gill on waivers Tuesday. The move comes just over a year since the Preds inked the veteran to a two-year contract worth $4 million. Gill, 38, played in 32 regular-season games and failed to record a point this past season. The Providence product and former Boston Bruins draft pick played in back-to- back Stanley Cup Finals for the Penguins, winning a title the second time around in 2009. The Colorado Avalanche also placed a pair of defencemen - Matt Hunwick and Greg Zanaon - on waivers on Tuesday. St. Louis also placed defenceman Kris Russell on waivers. . Now the Minnesota Vikings have set their sights on soccer. . After rookie right-hander Alex Colome excelled in a 5-2 victory in the opener, the Rays fell to Chris Tillman and the Orioles 4-1 on Friday night. http://www.authenticduckspro.com/Giovan ... ks-jersey/. Re-signed by the club to a one-year, two-way (NHL/AHL) contract on July 5, Bass appeared in three preseason games with Columbus prior to breaking a bone in his hand on Sept. . a€“ All signs point to the Maple Leafs having their top offseason acquisition in the lineup on opening night. . -- Caris LeVert had 14 points and a career-high 11 rebounds for his first career double-double, and No.ADELBODEN, Switzerland -- Ted Ligety and Marcel Hirschers latest World Cup giant slalom duel is set to go ahead Saturday despite unseasonably warm weather in the Swiss mountains. Adelboden race chief Hans Pieren said Friday that temperatures reached 20 C (68 F) on the course the previous day, as Europe experiences warmth while North America freezes. "It will be like spring, with water splashing up from the snow on your legs," Ligety, who won the GS race here last year, told The Associated Press. Team coaches were told Friday that Adelboden had recorded its hottest January temperature since it was a venue in the debut World Cup season of 1967. "We have tried everything we can and we have enough snow," Pieren said. Sunshine and tempperatures of at least 6 C (43 F) are forecast Saturday for the two-run race, staged over fields which are cow pasture in summer.dddddddddddd Ligety, the world champion and World Cup title holder in giant slalom, and Hirscher, the Austrian two-time defending overall World Cup winner, have combined to win all four races in the discipline this season. They have been joined on the podium by Alexis Pinturault of France in five of the past seven World Cup GS races, since Ligetys victory here one year ago. Austrian head coach Mathias Berthold suggested the soft conditions could open up the race beyond the dominant trio. "It might be a little easier for the others to catch up," Berthold said. "Its kind of hard to predict." ' ' '