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MONTREAL — It's not quite the same as throwing his body in front of a 100 m.p.h. slapshot. But Blake Wheeler tried to help his team with another big block on Thursday.
The Winnipeg Jets captain stepped in front of the cameras and microphones in a clear attempt to try and absorb some of the pressure on teammate Patrik Laine, who was kept away from doing media interviews by the team's public relations staff for a second straight day while wallowing in the worst scoring slump of his young career.