Bridgeport Dental Implants: 11 Ways to Keep Your Original Smile ...

An Introductory Note on Bridgeport Dental Implants

Bridgeport dental implants offer the most sophisticated and long term replacement solution for patients that present with single or multiple missing teeth. These fantastic dental devices have been available for many decades now, but recent advantages in medical technology and surgical protocol have made it possible for qualified and experienced oral surgeons and prosthodontists to achieve unprecedented feats in total oral rehabilitation. Nowadays, patients that have lost all of their original adult teeth to periodontal or gum disease - an incredibly prevalent health issue in the United States - are able to get a full set of immediately functional non-removable teeth that are virtually indistinguishable from a full set of natural healthy teeth.

And modern surgical protocol for the placement of Bridgeport dental implants almost always makes this possible in a single day with a single surgery and at a cost that is tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than traditional dental implant techniques!

But having said all of this and in spite of the fantastic benefits and advantages of Bridgeport dental implants as a tooth replacement technology, nothing can rival your own original adult teeth. For this reason, we should be doing everything in our power to keep our pearly whites as healthy as possible: so that they might serve us until well into our late adulthood and beyond. In this four-part article series on preventing the need for Bridgeport dental implants, we shall be discussing the 11 different habits and lifestyle changes that are necessary to keep your oral health and hygiene in the best possible condition. In doing so, you can prevent the host of illnesses, dental conditions and oral diseases that are known to cause tooth loss.

How to Avoid the Need for Bridgeport Dental Implants # 1: Get Brushing Right!

We begin this series on Bridgeport dental implants with perhaps the most obvious point in maintaining a high standard of oral health and hygiene. While you may be aware of the importance of twice-daily brushing, most people just aren?t doing it correctly! You should be brushing at least twice a day (morning and night) for two minutes at a time, dedicating 30 seconds per quadrant of the mouth. You should also brush your tongue. Its rough surface offers a perfect home for bacteria, which, 8 times out of 10, is the cause of bad breath. If you really want to avoid tooth loss and the need for Bridgeport dental implants, you should actually brush your teeth 30 minutes after eating or drinking anything. Oral bacteria are incredibly opportunistic and their numbers soar after every meal. Waiting 30 minutes after a meal allows the PH levels in your mouth to return to normal and your teeth a chance to remineralize. This prevents the erosion of the dental enamel in the long term.

How to Avoid the Need for Bridgeport Dental Implants # 2: Floss Everyday, no Exceptions

Flossing is perhaps the most neglected of all our hygiene practices. Most people see it as an ?additional? or ?extra? to brushing, when in fact, it is just as important! Your toothbrush cannot reach between your teeth to eliminate the plaque (soft, sticky deposits of bacteria) and food that accumulate there throughout the day. Simply leaving it allows bacteria to gain a foothold in the mouth that puts your oral health at a greater risk of infection (in the short term) and disease (in the long term). Avoiding the need for Bridgeport dental implants is done most effectively by maintaining a rigorous home oral hygiene routine, which includes daily flossing; preferably before you go to bed at night.

Tip: Keep a canister of floss in a convenient location, such as on your bed-side table or even next to your favorite chair in front of the TV.

Bridgeport Dental Implants: Stay Tuned!

Stay tuned for the second installment of this four-part article series to read more tips on how to prevent the array of nasty oral ailments that cause tooth loss and the need for Bridgeport dental implants.

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'Rock Of Ages': The Reviews Are In!

Tom Cruise rescues rock and roll musical that 'wins no prizes for originality,' critics say.
By Kara Warner


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It's relatively safe to say "Rock of Ages" has built-in appeal: It's based on a hit Broadway musical of the same name and features a slew of A-list actors singing and dancing along to some of the biggest hits of the 1980s.

Despite all those charms, including the top billing of action star turned rock star Tom Cruise, the whimsical musical is not quite a surefire hit among critics and sits at a less-than-fresh rating over at Rotten Tomatoes. Sing along as we take a walk through the "Rock of Ages" reviews.

The Story
" 'Rock of Ages,' a rags-to-riches rock 'n' roll musical set mostly in a music club on Sunset Strip, wins no prizes for originality. A lot of it is zesty entertainment, with some energetic musical numbers; several big names (Tom Cruise, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin) prove they can sing well enough to play the Strip if they lose the day job. The two leads are Diego Boneta, as a bartender in the Strip's hottest club, and Julianne Hough, as a naive kid just off the bus from the Midwest. They're both gifted singers and join the others in doing covers of 1980s rock classics. Of course they also fall in love. Of course they have heartfelt conversations while standing behind the 'Hollywood' sign. Of course they break up because of a tragic misunderstanding. Of course their mistake is repaired and (spoiler!) they're back together at the end. Has ever a romance in a musical been otherwise?" — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The Music and Singing
"It looks like Disneyland and sounds, well, like a bad Broadway musical, with all the power belting and jazz-hand choreography that implies. To put it another way, there's way too much Journey on the soundtrack, and Foreigner. There's also an REO Speedwagon ditty, a few from Twisted Sister, Def Leppard and Poison, and at least two hits that were released after 1987 ('More Than Words' and 'I Remember You'). All the songs are sung, mostly without shame or distinction, by the actors themselves, who slide into the warbling as if into a conversation. A grizzled, bewigged Mr. Baldwin enunciates through his songs, in the Rex Harrison mold, to play a rock survivor, Dennis Dupree, who runs the Bourbon with his sidekick, Lonny (Mr. Brand). They make their stale buddy routine and romance amusing and, as with the rest of the adults, make the movie bearable. A whispering and writhing Mr. Cruise makes it watchable." — Manohla Dargis, New York Times

The Cruise Factor
"The real reason to see 'Rock of Ages,' though, is Tom Cruise. He doesn't sing much, and the one big onstage number he's given — shredding Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' under a rain of shaken-up beer from the audience — relies heavily on postproduction and backup singing, probably to mask his vocal shortcomings. But especially in his scenes with [Paul] Giamatti and Malin Akerman (as a Rolling Stone critic who's the only one with the guts to call Stacee on his ersatz-Marlon Brando B.S.), Cruise goes to a deep, dark, almost deliberately repellent place I'm not sure he's ever been before (in 'Magnolia,' maybe, and in a comic mode as the profane studio head Les Grossman in 'Tropic Thunder'). The isolation and paranoia brought on by extreme fame is something Tom Cruise clearly understands from the inside out — and what we know, or think we know, about the actor's personal eccentricities can't help but color our understanding of Stacee as well. When Cruise and Akerman have lurid (but still PG-13) sex atop an air-hockey table while singing Foreigner's 'I Want to Know What Love Is,' Cruise's expressions of erotic anguish are like something out of Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama 'Shame,' with a hint of tragic drag queen thrown in. Cruise's portrait of the rock star as empty-eyed nihilist doesn't really belong in this gaudy pop trinket of a movie — it's both too outsized and too inward — but that's precisely what makes for its fascination. 'Rock of Ages' is only recommended for audiences with a taste for highly processed cheese, but it did leave me hopeful that the next decade may see the rise of Weird Tom Cruise." — Dana Stevens, Slate

The Final Word
" 'Rock of Ages' is an effulgent celebration of fakeness. It isn't trying to be real; it's trying to be faker than any fake thing has ever been before. Compared to this fake musical set in a fake version of the past that spins a ridiculously fake narrative of pop-culture history, 'Mamma Mia' (the last jukebox musical to be vilified by critics and embraced by the public) is pretty much a mumblecore movie. 'Rock of Ages' is so remarkably fake it's almost ur-fake or meta-fake; you can watch the globs of trans fats congealing on its preternaturally bright surfaces as it cools. This movie could hardly seem more weirdly artificial if it had been jointly hatched by David Lynch and John Waters, and raised in a lab on a steady diet of Foreigner hits and original Broadway-cast recordings. I'm not claiming this movie is good for you, Lord knows. It's a little bit like eating a Happy Meal at 4:30 in the morning after a long night of Jagermeister and nitrous oxide. But not to put too fine a point on it, if you ain't lookin' for nothin' but a good time, why should you resist? Some people who claim to understand the public appetite smell an expensive flop here, and that well may be. But I'm here to tell you that this movie is almost too weird to be believed, and that if you share even a fraction of my taste for perversity you should check it out." — Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

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Roberto Unger, Obama's Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President 'Must Be Defeated'

One of President Barack Obama's former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video.

"President Obama must be defeated in the coming election," Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."

Unger said that Obama must lose the election in order for "the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life."

He acknowledged that if a Republican wins the presidency, "there will be a cost ... in judicial and administrative appointments." But he said that "the risk of military adventurism" would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama, and that "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction."

"Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is sure to be modest," he said. "This is less a project than it is an abdication."

The professor went on to list his complaints:

  • "His policy is financial confidence and food stamps."
  • "He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices."
  • "He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money."
  • "He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice."
  • "He has reduced justice to charity."
  • "He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight."
  • "He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle."

Unger also criticized the nation's current economic policies in a recent YouTube video called "Beyond Stimulus."

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Medal of Honor: Warfighter Gets Special Military Edition

By News Staff | Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 1:13:GMT+5

As part of a new Project HONOR initiative by EA, a special military edition of Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be released exclusively for active, reserve and former U.S. military. The Project HONOR program is said to be aimed at raising awareness and generating charitable contributions for martyrs from the Special Operations Community.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Military Edition

During the game?s reveal in February this year, EA had disclosed that the its story has been written by Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas. The military edition of Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be made available only through GovX, and will contain exclusive in-game unlocks, one of them being a special Project HONOR camouflage pattern. It can be pre-ordered now for the same price as that of the standard game.

John T. Carney, Jr., Special Operations Warrior Foundation President, shared, ?This partnership with EA and Medal of Honor will raise awareness on the work we do to help the families of fallen Special Operations warriors and facilitate contributions that help provide college scholarships for surviving children and financial assistance to families of severely wounded special operations warriors. This is a great way to give back to some of our country?s greatest warriors.?

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Under the Project HONOR initiative, elite weapon and gear manufacturers that include Kaenon, London Bridge Trading, Magpul, SureFire, Mechanix Wear and more would also be making donations to the Navy SEAL Foundation and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. The products of these manufacturers will be featured in the game. Moreover, some companies will even be selling exclusive Medal of Honor themed merchandise to donate 100% proceeds of their sales to the Navy SEAL Foundation, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and other charities.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be released for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on October 23, 2012. While its military edition is exclusive to armed forces, the standard version can be pre-ordered currently at 59.99 USD (approx. Rs. 3,350).

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Cancer's next magic bullet may be magic shotgun

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Network approach to drug design may yield more effective and less toxic cancer drugs, UCSF study suggests

A new approach to drug design, pioneered by a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Mt. Sinai, New York, promises to help identify future drugs to fight cancer and other diseases that will be more effective and have fewer side effects.

Rather than seeking to find magic bulletschemicals that specifically attack one gene or protein involved in one particular part of a disease processthe new approach looks to find "magic shotguns" by sifting through the known universe of chemicals to find the few special molecules that broadly disrupt the whole diseases process.

"We've always been looking for magic bullets," said Kevan Shokat, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. "This is a magic shotgunit doesn't inhibit one target but a set of targetsand that gives us a much, much better ability to stop the cancer without causing as many side effects."

Described in the June 7, 2012 issue of the journal Nature, the magic shotgun approach has already yielded two potential drugs, called AD80 and AD81, which in fruit flies were more effective and less toxic than the drug vandetanib, which was approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last year for the treatment of a certain type of thyroid cancer.

Expanding the Targets to Lower a Drug's Toxicity

Drug design is basically all about disruption. In any disease, there are numerous molecular interactions and other processes that take place within specific tissues, and in the broadest sense, most drugs are simply chemicals that interfere with the proteins and genes involved in those processes. The better a drug disrupts key parts of a disease process, the more effective it is.

The toxicity of a drug, on the other hand, refers to how it also disrupts other parts of the body's system. Drugs always fall short of perfection in this sense, and all pharmaceuticals have some level of toxicity due to unwanted interactions the drugs have with other molecules in the body.

Scientists use something called the therapeutic index (the ratio of effective dose to toxic dose) as a way of defining how severe the side effects of a given drug would be. Many of the safest drugs on the market have therapeutic indexes that are 20 or highermeaning that you would have to take 20 times the prescribed dose to suffer severe side effects.

Many cancer drugs, on the other hand, have a therapeutic index of 1. In other words, the amount of the drug you need to take to treat the cancer is the exact amount that causes severe side effects. The problem, said Shokat, comes down to the fact that cancer drug targets are so similar to normal human proteins that the drugs have widespread effects felt far outside the tumor.

While suffering the side effects of drugs is a reality that many people with cancer bravely face, finding ways of minimizing this toxicity is a big goal pharmaceutical companies would like to solve. Shokat and his colleagues believe the shotgun approach is one way to do this.

The dogma that the best drugs are the most selective could be wrong, he said, and for cancer a magic shotgun may be more effective than a magic bullet.

Looking at fruit flies, they found a way to screen compounds to find the few that best disrupt an entire network of interacting genes and proteins. Rather than judging a compound according to how well it inhibits a specific target, they judged as best the compounds that inhibited not only that specific target but disrupted other parts of the network while not interacting with other genes and proteins that would cause toxic side effects.

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The article, "Chemical genetic discovery of targets and anti-targets for cancer polypharmacology" by Arvin C. Dar, Tirtha K. Das, Kevan M. Shokat and Ross Cagan appears in the June 7, 2012 issue of the journal Nature. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11127

This work was supported by the American Cancer Society, The Waxman Foundation, and the National Institutes of Healththrough grants R01CA109730, R01CA084309, R01EB001987 and P01 CA081403-11.

UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.

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jason.bardi@ucsf.edu
415-502-6397
University of California - San Francisco

Network approach to drug design may yield more effective and less toxic cancer drugs, UCSF study suggests

A new approach to drug design, pioneered by a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Mt. Sinai, New York, promises to help identify future drugs to fight cancer and other diseases that will be more effective and have fewer side effects.

Rather than seeking to find magic bulletschemicals that specifically attack one gene or protein involved in one particular part of a disease processthe new approach looks to find "magic shotguns" by sifting through the known universe of chemicals to find the few special molecules that broadly disrupt the whole diseases process.

"We've always been looking for magic bullets," said Kevan Shokat, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. "This is a magic shotgunit doesn't inhibit one target but a set of targetsand that gives us a much, much better ability to stop the cancer without causing as many side effects."

Described in the June 7, 2012 issue of the journal Nature, the magic shotgun approach has already yielded two potential drugs, called AD80 and AD81, which in fruit flies were more effective and less toxic than the drug vandetanib, which was approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last year for the treatment of a certain type of thyroid cancer.

Expanding the Targets to Lower a Drug's Toxicity

Drug design is basically all about disruption. In any disease, there are numerous molecular interactions and other processes that take place within specific tissues, and in the broadest sense, most drugs are simply chemicals that interfere with the proteins and genes involved in those processes. The better a drug disrupts key parts of a disease process, the more effective it is.

The toxicity of a drug, on the other hand, refers to how it also disrupts other parts of the body's system. Drugs always fall short of perfection in this sense, and all pharmaceuticals have some level of toxicity due to unwanted interactions the drugs have with other molecules in the body.

Scientists use something called the therapeutic index (the ratio of effective dose to toxic dose) as a way of defining how severe the side effects of a given drug would be. Many of the safest drugs on the market have therapeutic indexes that are 20 or highermeaning that you would have to take 20 times the prescribed dose to suffer severe side effects.

Many cancer drugs, on the other hand, have a therapeutic index of 1. In other words, the amount of the drug you need to take to treat the cancer is the exact amount that causes severe side effects. The problem, said Shokat, comes down to the fact that cancer drug targets are so similar to normal human proteins that the drugs have widespread effects felt far outside the tumor.

While suffering the side effects of drugs is a reality that many people with cancer bravely face, finding ways of minimizing this toxicity is a big goal pharmaceutical companies would like to solve. Shokat and his colleagues believe the shotgun approach is one way to do this.

The dogma that the best drugs are the most selective could be wrong, he said, and for cancer a magic shotgun may be more effective than a magic bullet.

Looking at fruit flies, they found a way to screen compounds to find the few that best disrupt an entire network of interacting genes and proteins. Rather than judging a compound according to how well it inhibits a specific target, they judged as best the compounds that inhibited not only that specific target but disrupted other parts of the network while not interacting with other genes and proteins that would cause toxic side effects.

###

The article, "Chemical genetic discovery of targets and anti-targets for cancer polypharmacology" by Arvin C. Dar, Tirtha K. Das, Kevan M. Shokat and Ross Cagan appears in the June 7, 2012 issue of the journal Nature. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11127

This work was supported by the American Cancer Society, The Waxman Foundation, and the National Institutes of Healththrough grants R01CA109730, R01CA084309, R01EB001987 and P01 CA081403-11.

UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.

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Sony STR-DN1030 7.2-channel home theater receiver with Airplay and Bluetooth hands-on

Sony STRDN1030 72channel network home theater receiver with Airplay and Bluetooth handson

Truth be told, we spend a lot of time listening to music, movies and hands-on video clips through our headphones and laptop speakers, but when it comes time to sink into the plush leather seats in a proper home theater, you better believe high-quality audio is a top priority. Sony's STR-DN1030 serves as an update to last year's STR-DN1020, and promises to deliver on that quality promise, with a bounty of connectivity options to boot. WiFi and built-in Ethernet enable the 7.2-channel digital receiver to stream from AirPlay, along with Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) music services including Music Unlimited, Pandora, Slacker and vTuner. The device is also DLNA compatible, IP controllable and it can power on (from standby mode) whenever you begin to stream a song over AirPlay or Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR connections.

We dropped by Sony's NYC headquarters for a quick peek at the DN1030, which we're told very quietly made the rounds at CES but has yet make its official debut. The receiver, which boasts 145 watts per channel (not including those dual powered-sub connections), was paired with seven high-end Bowers & Wilkins speakers and a powered Sony subwoofer. It's nearly impossible to pass complete judgement on any high-end audio product after a brief demo in a room that isn't optimized for sound, so audiophiles should certainly hear this thing for themselves before coming to any conclusions of their own. Still, we were quite pleased with performance from what we saw today -- Bluetooth and AirPlay connections appeared to be seamless, Slacker loaded quickly and audio quality was quite solid from all of the wireless sources, along with Avatar and a recorded Cream concert on Blu-ray. Best yet is the receiver's price -- the STR-DN1030 will set you back just $499 when it hits stores in mid-July.

Edgar Alvarez contributed to this report.

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LA Kings celebrate Stanley Cup with parade, rally

Dustin Brown stood on a flatbed truck and raised the big silver trophy above his head once again. The air in downtown Los Angeles filled with a blizzard of silver-and-black confetti.

The Los Angeles Kings are Stanley Cup champions for the first time, and a celebration 45 years in the making certainly appeared to be worth the wait.

The Kings rode double-decker buses and flatbed trucks in a parade through the city center, moving slowly up Figueroa Street past thousands of roaring fans. Brown and playoff MVP Jonathan Quick then raised the Cup outside Staples Center, where the Kings completed their 16-4 rampage through the postseason on Monday night by eliminating the New Jersey Devils.

"It was more than you could ever expect," forward Dustin Penner said. "It's one of those moments you want to live over and over again. It's amazing to hear all the support, and to put faces to the cheers we've heard all year."

The Kings gathered inside the arena for a packed rally, with fans waving towels and giving repeated standing ovations to every speaker. Coach Darryl Sutter even pumped up the fans with a series of joyously out-of-character fist pumps, and forward Anze Kopitar riled them up even more.

"It's too much fun not to win it again, so let's go get it," Kopitar said.

Quick, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner, then cracked up the crowd with profane praise of his teammates in a ceremony running live on local television. But even amid the pomp and profanity of a major party, the Kings' affection for each other broke through.

"Just to see the looks on their faces after they won it is something I'll remember for the rest of my life," said Sutter, the midseason replacement who revitalized the Kings' season. "It's just awesome, awesome, awesome."

The Kings will have all summer to absorb what they accomplished this spring, but the superlatives are remarkable.

Los Angeles is the first No. 8 seed to win the Stanley Cup, and only one modern NHL team did it in fewer games. The Kings took a 3-0 lead in all four of their playoff series - also an NHL first. Los Angeles never played an elimination game, only getting stretched even to Game 6 once, and only trailed for about 184 minutes in the entire postseason.

The Kings finished third in the Pacific Division, albeit only two points behind winner Phoenix, and didn't clinch a playoff berth until right before their 81st game. They were the NHL's lowest-scoring team for most of the regular season before getting it together in late February around the time Jeff Carter arrived in a trade with Columbus.

"I don't think we really had the season we expected of ourselves, and I don't think we were an eight seed," said defenseman Rob Scuderi, still sporting black stitches in his nose and upper lip after New Jersey's Steve Bernier slammed him headfirst into the boards in Game 6, resulting in a five-minute power play in which the Kings scored three goals and essentially wrapped up the Cup.

The Stanley Cup has already made an extensive tour of Los Angeles, starting at a Hermosa Beach pub just a few hours after the Kings claimed it. The Cup was in Brown's backyard Tuesday morning, where his two oldest sons drank chocolate milk out of the bowl while wearing their Spider-Man pajamas.

After appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Tuesday, the Cup made its way on Wednesday to Dodger Stadium, where the Dodgers and Angels posed with the Kings for a remarkable photo before every hockey player threw out a first pitch. On Wednesday night, the Cup ended up at a popular stage show in Hollywood's historic Roosevelt Hotel, where David Beckham and Chuck Liddell joined in the celebration.

"It feels great," said Kopitar, the playoffs' scoring co-leader with linemate Brown. "You want to have parades every year. It's going to be tough, but we think we have the team to do it."

The Kings are uniformly excited they've got a strong chance of defending their title next season with much the same roster. General manager Dean Lombardi, who lost his voice in the post-Cup celebrations and couldn't speak to the rally crowd, already has signed most of Los Angeles' key contributors for at least one more year, with only forwards Penner, Jarret Stoll and Colin Fraser headed for unrestricted free agency.

"I'd say it's pretty good," Penner said of his chances of returning to Los Angeles. "I want to be back. ... I'm pretty sure Dean is good at math."

Penner rebounded from a dismal regular season for a strong playoff run with linemates Mike Richards and Carter, scoring the overtime goal in the victory that clinched the Kings' second Western Conference championship. The power forward is now a two-time NHL champion after winning the Cup with Anaheim in 2007, and his experience after that title has affected how he views his impending free agency.

Penner signed a five-year, $21.25 million offer sheet with Edmonton in the ensuing offseason, and the furious Ducks didn't match it. Penner got his money, but missed his teammates while struggling through dismal seasons with the Oilers, who traded him to Los Angeles last season.

"I ended up leaving (Anaheim), and you want to be a part of that - coming into a building as the champs," Penner said. "We've got a good thing going here, and I love it."

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