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What do you need to know about the weekends big stories? Scott Burnside gives us his take on the biggest and best.Love for the Jackets: Isnt it time we started to give the Columbus Blue Jackets and head coach John Tortorella some well-deserved love? Tortorella took a lot of heat, along with the rest of Team USA, for the teams lifeless performance at the World Cup of Hockey. But after losing their first two games of the regular season, the Blue Jackets have gone 10-2-2, including Sundays 3-2 win over the defending Presidents Trophy-winning Washington Capitals. That win marks four in a row for a team that leads the NHL in power-play efficiency (they scored one with the man advantage Sunday) and is second in goals scored per game. With a sterling 7-2-2 record at home, it means the accursed Columbus Civil War cannon is going off like crazy at Nationwide Arena. Sundays win wrapped up a weekend that also saw them knock off the red-hot New York Rangers on Friday night. The Blue Jackets are for real.Good time to score: In the end, it wasnt so much the goals -- although Connor McDavid was no doubt pleased to see three on the official score sheet for his first-ever NHL hat trick -- but rather the result. Of course, for the Edmonton Oilers captain and most important player, McDavids performance and the Oilers success are pretty much inexorably linked. And so it was that McDavids three goals in Saturdays 5-2 win over the disappointing Dallas Stars did break an unusually long goal-less drought (10 games), but it also helped halt an ugly skid that had seen the Oilers lose five straight and go 2-7-1 after a 7-1-0 start. The win moved the Oilers, at least temporarily, back into a tie with the Anaheim Ducks for the top spot in the Pacific Division. The key now for McDavid, second in the league with 22 points, and the Oilers is to prove this wasnt an aberration but the norm, as they host the Chicago Blackhawks and then visit the Colorado Avalanche and Arizona Coyotes in what should be two winnable road games later this week.Caution for Cunningham:?Finally, warm thoughts and wishes go out to Craig Cunningham, the captain of the Tucson Roadrunners of the American Hockey League, and his family. The 26-year-old collapsed on the ice shortly before a game between the Roadrunners and the Manitoba Moose in Tucson Saturday, and he was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he remains. The Arizona Daily Star reported Cunningham appeared to convulse on the ice and was attended to by medical staff from both teams and firefighters who were on the ice as part of a pregame ceremony. The game was postponed and will be rescheduled. 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RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll tempered some of his optimism regarding tight end Jimmy Grahams ability to be ready for the start of the season.Carroll said Wednesday that, as expected, Graham will not play against Minnesota on Thursday in the Seahawks second preseason game. Graham is recovering from a torn patellar tendon in his right knee suffered last November in a game against Pittsburgh. Graham was activated off the physically unable to perform list last week and returned to limited practice.Really were shooting for where is he at the start of the season? Carroll said. Well evaluate then how much longer it may take or he may be ready. We dont know that yet. But he feels good and hes confident its going along well.Carroll said throughout the majority of the offseason that he hoped Graham would be ready for the start of the regular seasoon.dddddddddddd. Graham had surgery almost immediately after the injury and his right knee was completely immobilized for 11 to 12 weeks. The recovery from a patellar tendon tear can sometimes take up to a year but Graham was back on the field in less than nine months.Graham finished last season with 48 receptions and two touchdowns before his injury.Hes got some tests coming up going into next week that will give us some more information and well just see how its going, Carroll said. (Were) pleased that he is upbeat about it and confident and hes working very hard to make sure he takes full advantage of the rehab time as well as the football time. Making good progress.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '