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While expectations might be raised by the Columbus Blue Jackets finish to last season, they dont have the kind of talent that will attract significant fantasy interest this season. Top Picks: Marian Gaborik is coming off a poor season -- his 0.57 points per game his lowest output since his rookie yearin 1998-1999 -- but hes also one year removed from a 41-goal season, and has scored 30 or more goals seven times. Add in a little contract year motivation and hes an easy No. 2 right wing. The biggest reason that the Blue Jackets were nearly a playoff team last season was the play of G Sergei Bobrovsky, who had a .932 save percentage. In three NHL seasons, his career save percentage is .917 so regression is virtually assured, but if Bobrovsky even matches his career numbers while starting 65 games, hell be a valuable fantasy goaltender. The warning here, though, is to take him as your No. 2 and not before. Value Plays: C Brandon Dubinsky scored just two goals in 29 games last season and his offence has been heading the wrong way since a couple of 20-goal seasons, but he still plays a sound two-way game. A little bit of offensive resurgence, combined with his physical game (hits and/or PIMs) makes Dubinsky a fringe fantasy player. While hes a minus machine -- a league-worst minus-85 since the start of the 2007-2008 season -- D Jack Johnson plays a ton and has 135 points since the start of 2009-2010, ranking 21st among defencemen. Balancing out the plus-minus risk, hes still okay as a No. 3 or No. 4. LW Artem Anisimov has offensive upside, but he has yet to score 20 goals or 45 points in a season, so hes likely one to watch on the waiver wire. Sleepers/Breakthrough: Smallish scoring winger Cam Atkinson has 32 points in 82 NHL games, which is a fine start to his career, but he also has 49 goals in 89 AHL games since coming out of Boston College, a pedigree that suggests he should be able to keep scoring. Since he was drafted fourth overall in 2010, Ryan Johansen has shown flashes, putting up 33 points in 107 NHL games (33 points in 40 AHL games last season), but hasnt been able to maintain enough consistency to be a productive player. The 21-year-old has enough potential to warrant a look in deep leagues. He has a hard time staying healthy and is minus-28 over the last three seasons, but D James Wisniewski is productive enough when hes in the lineup, scoring 48 of his 92 points over the last three years on the power play. The Blue Jackets have a collection of forwards who, from time to time, may have some appeal, a group that includes Nick Foligno, R. J. Umberger, Mark Letestu and, once hes healthy, Nathan Horton, but theyre not going to have draft day appeal in most formats. Rookies: Theres no guarantee that C Boone Jenner will start the year in Columbus, but hes coming off a fine season, scoring 82 points in 56 games with Oshawa in the OHL, adding nine points in 13 (regular season plus playoff) games in the AHL at the end of the season. If he does stick, he could contribute some offensively with a physical game, though it may not be enough to deserve fantasy consideration. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. Phillies Jerseys China . PETERSBURG, Fla. Philadelphia Phillies Shirts . The Oilers jumped into the free agent market early by signing defencemen Keith Aulie (six-foot-six, 228 pounds) and Mark Fayne (6-3, 210 pounds) and left-winger Benoit Pouliot (6-3, 197-pounds). 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The three-time world champion crushed the competition to win the event by more than 30 points on Saturday -- eclipsing his own best scores in the short program and free skate and beating his best combined mark. The 22-year-old from Toronto knows his composure will be tested much more at the Winter Games. "A score like that -- if I put that up at the Olympics I think it will be very, very hard to beat," he said. "This is a grand prix event Ive been to many times. The Olympics is only the second time (for me) and Im competing against the best skaters in the world so its a very different circumstance, a very different atmosphere." Meanwhile, American skater Ashley Wagner successfully defended her title despite finishing second in the free skate. "Tonight was a pretty decent night for me," Wagner said. "I think theres still room for improvement." Chan scored 196.75 in the free for an overall mark of 295.27 -- smashing his previous best combined score (280.98) and his free record (187.96) from the 2011 worlds. Japans Yuzuru Hanyu tallied 263.59 overall to finish second, and American Jason Brown scored 243.09 for his first senior medal. Both are 18. Chan expects a much fiercer challenge in Sochi, where he will need all of his mental strength. "Its going to be a goal of mine to be able to click and think about moments like today and yesterday to do the exact same thing at the Olympics," he said. Chan chose his favourite piece of music to skate to -- Concerto Grossos "Four Seasons" -- and performed with such grace and precision that the Paris crowd rose as one to give him a deafening ovation as he blew kisses back to them. "Its a piece of music that really meshed well with me," he said. "I could time my knee bends, my breathing to the music." Chan will be hard to stop at the Dec. 5-8 Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, Japan. He nailed his opening quad toeloop-triple toeloop, his quad toeloop and his triple axel jumps with remarkable ease. "I felt truly ffree and I was really able to have ownership of every moment I could skate," Chan said.dddddddddddd "Thats why we compete. Not for the medals or the money. You kind of feel unbeatable and indestructible. I was happy, free and light." Chan usually scores so highly in the short that he has room for error in the long. "Today was a challenge because Ive done very well in the short program in the past and havent had a good track record with the long," he said. Hanyu recovered brilliantly after a nervous start where he stumbled on his opening jump -- a quad salchow -- and then fell attempting a quad toeloop. He shook his head as he left the ice as the crowd warmly cheered him. Wagner, who was second at Skate America behind Japans Mao Asada last month, scored 194.37 and beat Adelina Sotnikova -- who had the best score in the long -- by five points. The 15-year-old Anna Pogorilaya was 10 points back in third spot. Both Russians and Wagner are qualified for the GP Final. Earlier, Olympic runners-up Pang Qing and Tong Jian won the Trophee Bompard pairs for the first time in their final season. World bronze medallists Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmerton, Ont., finished second, securing their place for the Fukuoka event, which will feature the top six skaters in each category. "Were incredibly proud of ourselves to make the final with the pressure we put on ourselves," Radford said. Americans Caydee Denney and John Coughlin took the bronze medal. Also, Olympic champions Tessa Virtue of London, Ont., and Scott Moir of Ilderton, Ont., followed up their success at Skate Canada by winning the ice dance. The Canadians were nine points better than European runners-up Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia, who beat Cup of China winners Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France by less than a point. "We felt like it was a strong skate," said Moir. "There were some great moments and it was a better skate than at Skate Canada especially the ending. Still we left some points out there. Technically we cant afford to do those little mistakes." Nicole Orford of Burnaby, B.C., and Thomas Williams of Okotoks, Alta., were eighth. ' ' '