(SportsNetwork. Deion Sanders Jersey .com) - Armed with the knowledge they wont have the services of Corey Perry until the new year, the Anaheim Ducks try to secure a fifth straight win on Wednesday night in the opener of a home-and-home series with the Edmonton Oilers. Perry suffered a sprained knee in last Fridays win over the Minnesota Wild as he was hit into the boards by defenseman Keith Ballard in the first period. Perry had to be helped off the ice and missed Sundays overtime victory against the Winnipeg Jets. The Ducks then learned Perry would miss 3-to-4 weeks with the injury, his latest setback on the season. The forward missed five games in November with the mumps, but still leads Anaheim with 14 goals in 23 games along with 22 points. Each day since (Saturday) has gotten better, Perry said on Anaheims website. If it continues to increase at this speed, hopefully its over quicker than what were expecting. Were thankful there arent any tears. Minus Perry, the Ducks secured an overtime decision against the Jets thanks to Kyle Palmieris tally with 53 seconds to go in the bonus frame. Rene Bourque, Jakob Silfverberg and Ryan Kesler also scored and Ryan Getzlaf managed three assists. Frederik Andersen stopped 27-of-30 shots in his 13th straight start as Anaheim won for the seventh time in nine games while improving to 14-0-5 in one-goal games this season. Our group has kind of showed that all year that we have been able to play through things and keep playing. Good or bad, the one thing we have done is play a lot of overtime games this year, noted Getzlaf. We know the situation we are in and you never want to let a team get back in the last three minutes like that. We have got to learn to close those out a little better. Andersen figures to continue his games played streak tonight and beat the Oilers the only time he faced them after making 30 saves on 32 shots faced. Currently backed up by 23-year-old Igor Bobkov, Andersen could be in line for some rest down the stretch after Anaheim signed Ilya Bryzgalov for the rest of the season on Tuesday. The 34-year-old Bryzgalov began his NHL career in 2001-02 with the Ducks and was a member of the 2007 Stanley Cup championship team. He figures to serve as Andersens backup in the near future, but was assigned to the American Hockey League on a conditioning stint after signing. The Ducks will visit the Oilers on Friday to complete the home-and-home set and have won seven of nine and 17 of the last 21 meetings overall. They have taken four straight and eight of 10 at home as well. Edmonton was aiming for a second straight win last night, but lost a 5-2 decision at San Jose to earn a split of a home-and-home set with the Sharks. The Oilers snapped an 11-game losing streak (0-7-4) and 0-7-1 skid at home with a 2-1 win over the Sharks on Sunday, but lost their sixth in a row on the road on Tuesday. Jordan Eberle and David Perron scored for the Oilers, while Ben Scrivens allowed all five goals on 24 shots in the loss. We cant continue to out-chance teams and not win ... We have to start finishing and putting our chances in the net, Oilers coach Dallas Eakins said. Perron has three goals and two assists over a five-game point streak. The Oilers are expected to start former Ducks goaltender Viktor Fasth tonight. He has split two career meetings with Anaheim, posting a 2.52 goals against average and .919 save percentage. Signed Tom Brady Jersey . In his first game with Boston University, the 17-year-old Eichel picked up five assists as his Boston University Terriers thumped St. Kobe Bryant Jersey . - The Seattle Sounders busy off-season continues with the team acquiring defender Chad Marshall from the Columbus Crew in exchange for a 2015 third-round pick and allocation money. LOS ANGELES -- A judge Thursday rejected an urgent request by Shelly Sterlings attorney asking that husband Donald Sterling and his lawyers be ordered to stop harassing her legal team and doctors in their dispute over the planned sale of the Los Angeles Clippers. A petition filed by Shelly Sterlings attorneys quoted allegedly threatening remarks made by Donald Sterling in phone calls and a letter sent by his lawyer to two doctors who declared him mentally incapacitated. Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas said the matter may involve "high emotions and some litigation posturing" and urged both parties to tone down their communications. "The court does not feel that the statements set forth in the ... petition rise to the level of great and irreparable injury to a party as called for in the Code of Civil Procedure," Levanas said in a written decision. Outside court Donald Sterlings attorney Bobby Samini said, "Clearly from the courts ruling its apparent Mr. Sterling is not a danger to anybody." A trial next month will look into assertions that Donald Sterling is mentally incapacitated and determine whether he was properly removed as an administrator under the terms of the family trust, which owns the Clippers, leaving Shelly Sterling alone as trustee with authority to sell the team. A $2 billion sale to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is pending. The physicians who determined he was mentally incapacitated in May examinations with Donald Sterling could be key witnesses in the trial. A filing by Shelly Sterlings attorney stated that on June 9 Donald Sterling called Shelly Sterlings attorney, Pierce ODonnell, threatening lawsuits and said: "I am going to take you out, ODonnell." ODonnell understood that to be a death threat. The document also alleged Donald Sterling called one of the physicians, Dr. Meril Platzer, told her shes "nothing but a fraud and a liar and a cheat" and menacingly warned, "Im going to see that you lose your license." He also is said to have threatened to sue Platzer and made similar threats in a profanity-laden message left for a second doctor, James E. Spar. "Im gonna get you fired from UCLA because youre nothing but a tramp. How dare you let someone use you that way?" Sterling tells Spars voicemail. "You know, you rely on doctors. You think that theyll be above it all. But obviously youre not. Youll sell yourself for nothing. How dare you? How dare you give my records to a lawyer for the purposes of using it against me?" The filing states that Sterlings lawyer Samini, followed up with a letter to each doctor accusing them of being a part of a conspiracy. The document called it a clear attempt to intimidate key witnesses in the case. Samini said his office had been bombarded with calls from representatives of Shelly Sterling urging them to settle the case. He contended that the call cited in ODonnells papers was made by ODonnell to his office and he turned the phone over to Donald Sterling. "They wanted to have aa conversation," he said of Sterling and ODonnell, but he listened from a distance. Babe Ruth Jersey. "It was quite entertaining," Samini said. "I didnt hear any threats." Samini said he wrote letters to the doctors because he felt Donald Sterlings medical records were disseminated to the media inappropriately. He also said he believed that the doctors had been hired to give specific evaluations of Donald Sterling, which were suggested to them by Shelly Sterlings team. Samini said he has engaged other doctors to examine Donald Sterling and "the results are different and there are more to come." He said those would be released in court during the trial now scheduled for July 7. The terms of the trust state that two licensed physicians can determine a trustee "incapacitated" and both parties must co-operate in any such examination. Both Sterlings signed the terms, which also waive doctor-patient privilege and privacy rights for any "incapacitation" finding. Outside court, ODonnell said about the statement by Donald Sterling, "I took that as a threat on my life and I still do." He said Sterling used numerous expletives. "We think this is evidence of his lack of control, his impulsivity." He pointed out that the comments came the same day that Sterling went on a rant about the NBA, calling its board members "despicable monsters." He also said the doctors threatened by the 80-year-old Donald Sterling were shaken and one of them, Platzer, said she had misgivings about whether she should have gotten involved in the case at all. In her declaration she wrote that she believed Donald Sterling and his attorneys are "attempting to bully me into changing my opinion regarding Mr. Sterlings incapacity. I also do not want to be intimidated if I testify in this matter." ODonnell said he would ask for an injunction prohibiting Donald Sterling from intimidating witnesses. "This is not normal behaviour in civil litigation," ODonnell said. "This shows how erratic and volatile he is." Attached to the motion were letters from Samini to the doctors instructing them to not communicate further with anyone on Donald Sterlings medical condition or treatments without his prior consent. "Your conduct has already constituted interference with prospective economic advantage as part of a conspiracy," a letter dated June 10 said. Shelly Sterlings potentially record-breaking deal with Ballmer was struck after Donald Sterlings racist remarks to a girlfriend were recorded and publicized. The NBA moved to oust him as team owner, fined him $2.5 million and banned him for life. Donald Sterling has filed suit against the NBA for $1 billion in federal court alleging that the league violated his constitutional rights, committed breach of contract and violated antitrust laws. Sterling has also hired four private investigation firms to dig up potential dirt on the NBAs former and current commissioner and its owners for the case. ' ' '
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