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Claude Giroux is coming back for more. The Ottawa Senators have re-signed the veteran forward to a one-year deal worth five million dollars, with just two million hitting the cap and three million in performance bonuses. At forty-three years old, Giroux heads into a twentieth NHL season, and that kind of loyalty to the game is hard to argue with.
Shifting to the hardwood, Jalen Brunson is going under the knife. The Knicks guard and NBA Finals MVP is having surgery on his left wrist, though sources tell ESPN he's expected to return to basketball activities later this summer. New York will be watching that recovery timeline very closely heading into the offseason.
And on a somber note, former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland has been posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE. It's another painful reminder of the long-term toll this game takes on the men who play it, and a story the NFL cannot afford to keep pushing to the margins.
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