ay nine games in the NHL before teams must engage the first year of their entry-level deals or send them back to their junior clubs. In addition to Strome, defenseman Jakob Chychrun has

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- San Jose Sharks coach Peter DeBoer and Arizona Coyotes coach Dave Tippett endured similar challenges early this season.Both had a group of players report late to training camp after playing in the World Cup of Hockey. Both played one home game before embarking on lengthy road trips -- the Sharks for five games, the Coyotes for six.I think our five-game road trip was a little bit of a reflection of the lack of preparation we had with the group, DeBoer said Monday after practice at Gila River Arena as his team readied to face the Coyotes on Tuesday.We had seven guys away, so we didnt get a chance to get our group together for very long. We really only had one exhibition game where we actually had our group together and maybe a couple practices.The difference for DeBoer is that he coaches a veteran-laden, star-studded team that advanced to the Stanley Cup Final last season. Tippett coaches a team with four rookies and four second-year players on its 22-man roster.That gap is reflected in the standings. San Jose entered Tuesdays game with a 6-3 record, in second place in the Pacific Division, and Arizona was 2-6, in last place in the Pacific and NHL standings.The surprising one for me is our record, Tippett said. I expected us to be better than this. These close games, those are the frustrating ones because we should be finding ways to get more points than we have.The Coyotes last four losses have all been one-goal games, with New Jersey adding an empty-net goal with 14 seconds remaining to win 5-3 on Oct. 25 at Prudential Center.With so much youth in the lineup, along with four new faces added in free agency, Tippett is still tinkering with his lines to find the right mix.That tinkering continued Monday when the Coyotes assigned rookie center Christian Dvorak to Tucson of the American Hockey League to make room for 2015 first-round pick (No. 3 overall) Dylan Strome, who has played in just three games this season.Arizona has three junior-eligible players on whom it must make decisions soon. Per the CHL-NHL agreement, junior-eligible players can only play nine games in the NHL before teams must engage the first year of their entry-level deals or send them back to their junior clubs. In addition to Strome, defenseman Jakob Chychrun has played seven games and left winger Lawson Crouse has played five.Optionality is a good thing so Im not going to close any options; thats for sure, Coyotes general manager John Chayka said when asked about plans for those players. Youre trying to balance whats best for the players and their long-term needs with the needs of the team and where that player is in all of that.Youve got to define exactly what it is that player needs to play at the NHL level and excel and be the player you drafted or acquired him to be. Then you ask whats the best place for that development to occur. Some things are better served to be worked on in the NHL; some things are better served to be worked on in juniors.San Jose is more concerned with fine-tuning than major roster decisions. While much of the team that advanced to the Stanley Cup Final is back, DeBoer is still trying to find a home for free-agent signing Mikkel Boedker, a former Coyote who signed a four-year, $16 million deal with the Sharks in the summer.Its always tough to find skill guys the right kind of chemistry and sometimes its not even finding the right chemistry, its letting that chemistry develop, keeping him with the same guys, DeBoer said.Boedker, who has just one goal in nine games, began the year playing on a line with center Logan Couture and left winger Joonas Donskoi. Now he is playing on the top line with center Joe Thornton and right winger Joe Pavelski.Youve got to get accustomed to it and theyve got to get accustomed to the way I play, Boedker said. Big Joe is an amazing player and Pavs is a goal scorer, so youve got to fill in where you need to fill in. I guess on that line it will be a lot of hunting the pucks down and making sure I get it to them and then going in and making sure I create some room.Martin Jones is expected to make his fifth straight start in goal for San Jose. Louis Domingue will start for Arizona in place of injured starter Mike Smith (left leg).Smith skated on his own for the first time since suffering the injury on Oct. 18 in Ottawa and is still listed as week to week. Arizona defenseman Michael Stone is also questionable for Tuesdays game with an upper-body injury suffered Thursday in Philadelphia. Kevin Johnson Jersey . With Parker having a quiet game for once, Nicolas Batum and Boris Diaw provided the scoring as France won its first major basketball title by beating Lithuania 80-66 on Sunday. It was a victory that ended a decade of frustration for Parker and a talented French generation, which lost the final against Spain two years ago and took bronze in 2005. 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After all, he had a game to pitch.He wound up leaving Fort Bragg Field with the memory of a lifetime -- a victory in front of thousands of cheering troops.Conley pitched six strong innings and the Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 5-2 on Sunday night in a game played in a temporary ballpark on a U.S. Army post.I know, for me, this has been my favorite place to ever pitch in my life, Conley said. This is the most memorable place Ive ever pitched. ... An absolute honor that it falls on my day and that I get to start here.J.T. Realmuto homered and drove in two runs and Christian Yelich also finished with two RBI. He and Realmuto had run-scoring singles during a two-run fifth.Martin Prado added an RBI single in the seventh to help the wild card-contending Marlins earn a split of the four-game series and win the first regular-season game -- in any sport -- held at an active military installation.This game was played at a ballpark built from scratch in less than four months at the sprawling Army post thats home to 55,000 service members, including the famed paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.Conley (5-5) allowed four hits in the Marlins best outing by a starter in a week. In Miamis previous five games, each starter allowed at least four earned runs and none finished the sixth.Matt Wisler (3-8) had six strikeouts for the Braves, giving him 15 in his last two starts, but he allowed three earned runs in six-plus innings.It was just, two strikes, he couldnt put a guy away, interim Braves manager Brian Snitker said.Realmuto led off the ninth with a towering homer to center field off reliever Tyrell Jenkins to put the Marlins up 5-0.They pulled within 1 1/2 games of the NLs second wild card and improved to 4-8 against the last-place Braves -- a mark thats still their worst against an NL East opponent. Two of those wins belong to Conley, who threw eight innings in a 3-0 win over Atlanta on June 22 in Miami.The Braves scored two runs in the ninth off A.J. Ramos on Erick Aybars RBI double and A.J. Pierzynskis sacrifice fly before Ramos struck out Jace Peterson to end it.In a joint effort from Major League Baseball and the players association, an overgrown golf course was cleared outt and transformed into a major league-caliber field surrounded by temporary stands that were packed by 12,582 service members -- most of whom cheered and chopped for the local favorite Braves.ddddddddddddThe bad part is, we lost the game, Snitker said. The good part is, its something Ill never forget the rest of my life.Looking rather comfortable in such a setting, Wisler breezed through the first four innings before running into trouble in the fifth.Adeiny Hechavarria led off with a triple off the fence in center, then scored two batters later on Realmutos single to right that fell in front of a diving Nick Markakis. Prado then singled to center and Yelich followed with his RBI single to right that scored Realmuto.Prado made it 3-0 with his RBI single in the seventh and Yelich added a run-scoring sacrifice fly off Jenkins an inning later.HE SAID ITEarlier in the day, players from both teams took part in several military activities, including a parachute-packing exercise and some special operations that Pierzynski was asked about.His response: Were not allowed to tell you. Well have to kill you. (He was joking.)HE DID ITNew Marlins reliever Fernando Rodney pitched a perfect eighth, then did a hands-on-his-hips dance as he came off the field and the Rednex song Cotton Eye Joe blared on the loudspeaker.TRAINERS ROOMMarlins: 1B Justin Bour was out of the lineup a day after injuring his right ankle on a play at first base.Braves: IF Gordon Beckham went 2 for 2 with a double in a rehab start late Saturday night with Single-A Carolina, which plays 80 miles northeast of Fort Bragg in Zebulon. Beckham has been out since June 2 with a strained left hamstring.UP NEXTMarlins: RHP Tom Koehler (6-7. 4.45 ERA) faces the New York Mets in the opener of a three-game series. Hes lost two straight starts and has given up at least four earned runs in each.Braves: RHP Joel De La Cruz (0-1, 4.50 ERA) makes his second career start in the first game of a three-game series at Philadelphia. He gave up three runs in seven innings of a 3-0 loss to Cleveland on June 29.---Follow Joedy McCreary at http://twitter.com/joedyap. 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