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Eric Staal settled with a new team that satisfied his postseason aspirations. The Minnesota Wild found the top-six forward they were seeking.Staal and the Wild agreed to terms Friday on a three-year, $10.5 million contract soon after NHL free agency began. After totaling 13 goals between the Carolina Hurricanes and New York Rangers last season, the lowest number since he was a rookie, the 31-year-old center will take a prove-his-worth mentality into next season.I feel like Ive got a lot of hockey left, Staal said.The 45 goals and 55 assists that Stall got in 2005-06 while leading the Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup championship are an improbability at this point. But a potential line with Zach Parise and Charlie Coyle ought to at least put him in position to be a productive offensive player.He wanted the opportunity to be the Eric Staal that he was in the past, said Wild coach Bruce Boudreau, whose Washington teams faced Staal often with Carolina as division rivals. I told him he would definitely get that chance here.Staal spent 12 seasons with the Hurricanes until he was traded to the New York Rangers the day before the deadline. The second overall pick in the 2003 draft has 325 goals and 456 assists in 929 career games. Since Staal entered the league, Jarome Iginla, Patrick Marleau and Daniel Sedin are the only others whove played in 900-plus games and totaled at least 300 goals and 400 assists.As Staal did when Parise was on the market four years ago, ultimately picking Minnesota on a 13-year, $98 million contract, Parise reached out to Staal earlier this week with a pitch for the Wild.Im super excited. They were a team that I kind of had on my radar for a little while now, and knowing I was going to be in this position, I was kind of scouring over team rosters and looking for spots where I could be put in position to play my best hockey, Staal said. Minnesota was right up there.The Wild have qualified for the playoffs four straight times, but theyve won only two series. Still, thats a lot more action than Carolina has seen.After leading the NHL playoffs with 28 points in 25 games for the 2006 champions, Staal and the Hurricanes tasted the postseason only once more. He also had a five-game stint in the playoffs with the Rangers after the trade.So as his seven-year, $55.75 million contract expired, Staal was eager to join a winner. He cited player cost-cutting around him in Carolina as a reason for his waning goals and assists totals.In the cap world and the way the game is now, you need more. You need extra help, and sometimes it felt like they werent able to do some of those things, Staal said on a conference call with Minnesota reporters. It made it difficult. It started to wear.Staal has three younger brothers who have played in the NHL: Marc, Jordan and Jared. Hes had the chance to play with all of them, with the Hurricanes and then the Rangers. With 2,237 career regular-season games between the quartet, none of them has played for a Western Conference team until now.Minnesota is the closest NHL market and major city to their hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario, about a six-hour drive across the border.Im sure Im going to have a lot more weekend visitors than I had in the past, Staal said.The Wild also agreed to deals to bring back left wing Chris Stewart (two years, $2.3 million), and add goalie Alex Stalock, a Minnesota native; defenseman Victor Bartley, formerly of Montreal and Nashville; and forward Pat Cannone, an AHL veteran. They provide depth on two-way contracts.Stewart had eight goals and 12 assists in 56 games for Anaheim with Boudreau last season, missing 19 games because of a broken jaw. He was a March 2, 2015, trade-deadline acquisition by the Wild and played in 20 games plus eight contests in the playoffs.Stalock went 24-19-7 with a 2.37 goals against average and a .911 save percentage over parts of five seasons with San Jose. The 28-year-old product of South St. Paul High School and Minnesota Duluth will be behind Devan Dubnyk and Darcy Kuemper to start, but general manager Chuck Fletcher has acknowledged that Kuemper is under trade consideration.The fact that we didnt have to sacrifice any of our young defensemen to fill these holes is important, Fletcher said.With Staal, Mikko Koivu and Erik Haula, the Wild are confident in their depth at center. Staals arrival means Coyle and Mikael Granlund can stay on the wing, too.We have some quality players he can play with, Fletcher said. 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Gold Coast star Greg Bird claims video footage and witnesses will clear his name following an alleged incident at a northern NSW pub on Saturday evening.The NRLs integrity unit is investigating the incident, believed to have occurred after Birds group was refused entry during teammate Anthony Dons bucks party in Brunswick Heads.NSW Police have also confirmed they will speak to two men, aged 27 and 31, as part of their inquiries.But Bird, believed to be on his last chance at the Titans, has denied any wrongdoing after the group was asked to move on.I left the premises(s) and someone from our party stayed and got into a physical altercation with the security, he wrote on Instagram.Me along with everyone else in the group ran into (sic) separate the two involved and no-one else threw any punches.There is footage and witnesses to verify this.The Titans said they believed Bird was the only Gold Coast player being investigated by the integrity unit.They described the units investigation as ongoing.The club can ... confirm investigations byy the integrity unit into a separate matter in northern NSW last weekend are ongoing, the Titans statement said.ddddddddddddTo the best of the clubs knowledge, Greg Bird is the only Titans player under review by the integrity unit at this stage.NSW Police will allege the group failed to leave the venue at the request of security staff.Due to their levels of intoxication, the group were asked to leave by security staff, a police statement said.It will be alleged a brawl broke out between members of the group and security staff.The fight occurred after the group continued to remain at the premises in spite of requests for the group to leave.Bird, 31, captained the Titans in 2013 and 2014, but was stripped of the position after he was caught urinating beside an unmarked police car.He was also one of seven Gold Coast players charged with, but later acquitted of, possession and supply of cocaine early in 2015. 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