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We had a little discussion of what made sense and who gets the home game, who gets the road game and thats what we came up with, Lalonde said.

Early on we foresee both of them getting the net, a lot of the net and probably an equal share of the net and let it play out from there. We want a healthy competition, and it feels like its playing out that way from preseason, camp....

Veteran newcomers David Perron and Ben Chiarot will wear the As as alternate captains tonight and two different players will wear the As Saturday, Lalonde said.

Thats going to be a work in progress, Lalonde said. That could be months, that could be weeks, that could be days. I think in a good way its complicated because we have options. And it will take a little more time simply because (Andrew) Copp has been injured, not in (preseason) games. We foresee him being a big part of that and he hasnt been part of our everyday team yet.

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