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SASKATOON -- Kootenay Ice forward Tim Bozon was in critical condition Wednesday at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon with Neisseria meningitis. The Western Hockey League said public health officials were trying to ensure that anyone Bozon, 19, had contact with receives appropriate treatment. The Saskatoon Blades said players and team personnel were given antibiotics as a precaution. "(Public health) said the risk is minimal but were taking precautionary measures," Blades president Steve Hogel said. Meningitis, an inflammation of membranes around the brain and spinal cord, can be fatal if not treated quickly. Bozon, who was selected in the third round, 64 overall, by Montreal in the 2012 NHL draft, was admitted to hospital March 1. Kootenay beat Saskatoon 4-2 the night before. Bozon had a goal in the victory. His parents, Phillippe and Helen, have been at his bedside since they arrived in Saskatoon Sunday from their home in Switzerland. While there are several varieties of meningitis, the particular type Bozon has, Neisseria meningitis, is bacterial and more contagious. "The way bacterial meningitis spreads is through spit. You need to have very close contact or direct contact with the nose and throat secretions of the individual who became ill," said Dr. Shovita Padhi, deputy medical health officer for the Saskatoon Health Region. Bozon has 30 goals and 32 assists in 50 games this season with the Ice. Cheap Vapormax 95 . -- Chris Jones and Louisville have done a tremendous job protecting the basketball this season and thats led to easy victories. Vapormax 3 Clearance . -- Two out of three aint bad. http://www.clearancevapormax.com/cheap-v...-clearance.html. They find themselves trying to knock each other out in the Western Conference finals for the second straight year. The Blackhawks prevailed last year on their way to the Stanley Cup, and they have the early lead this time after taking the opener, 3-1. 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"We know that at Madrid it will be another game, which will also be important and very difficult," Milan coach Clarence Seedorf said.GREEN BAY, Wis. - Mike McCarthy loves the idea of his Green Bay Packers having something significant to play for in the Sundays regular-season finale.The Packers head coach has had teams whose playoff positioning was locked in entering the final game of the season (2009, 2011), and hes had teams that faced win-and-youre-in scenarios (2010, 2013).But Sundays NFC North championship game against the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field gives McCarthy precisely what he wants. The winner not only earns the NFC North crown, it also get the NFCs No. 2 seed and the first-round playoff bye and divisional-round home game that go with it. Even the top NFC seed could come to the winner.Both teams are 11-4, with the Lions having won the first meeting 19-7 at Ford Field on Sept. 21.The loser Sunday will be a wild card and would have to go on the road in the playoffs, something the Packers, a perfect 7-0 at home, would like to avoid.This is really how you want to go in to a (potential playoff) bye week, McCarthy said Monday, one day after his teams 20-3 victory at Tampa Bay, which clinched the Packers sixth consecutive playoff berth.In the 2009 regular-season finale at Arizona, McCarthy played his starters extensively even though he knew his team would be returning to Arizona the following week for a wild-card game. The Packers lost that post-season game 51-45 in overtime.In the 2011 finale against the Lions, the Packers had the NFCs No. 1 seed sewn up. So McCarthy sat many of his key players, including Aaron Rodgers. Following a first-round bye, McCarthys team looked rusty in an divisional-round loss to the eventual Super Bowl-champion New York Giants at Lambeau Field.If you look at some of the past experiences, sitting a number of players, you have things happen in the last game that are so different from the last four games before that, McCarthy said. The fact of the matter), were playing in aa playoff-type game.dddddddddddd I think is exactly the way you want to go into the playoffs.I think its great that Detroit and our records are the same and were playing for the title. Yeah, I think this is exactly how youd want it. I know its how Id prefer it.McCarthy acknowledged theres a school of thought that its better for a hot team to simply keep playing, and that a bye can stall momentum. Certainly in 2010, when the Packers won the Super Bowl as the NFCs sixth seed, taking three straight road playoff games to get there, they got on a roll. Green Bay won its final two regular-season games to qualify for the playoffs.And last year, after Rodgers missed seven starts with a broken left collarbone, the Packers beat the Bears at Soldier Field in the regular-season closer. That also amounted to the NFC North title game.But to McCarthy, this setup is ideal: a playoff-style atmosphere with plenty on the line, and a chance for a week off and a home playoff game.I mean, byes are valuable. Thats why you fight like crazy to be a No. 1 seed or a No. 2 seed, said McCarthy. Anytime you have a chance to get that week off, I think its important. I know some people believe in keep playing. Weve done both. I think the bye is very beneficial, regardless of the outcome of the week after. It gives you a better chance to get your team ready. At the end of the day, the best preparation usually leads to a better performance.NOTES: McCarthy altered the teams schedule to account for Christmas, scheduling practice on Tuesday (the players usual day off) and Wednesday, then giving players, coaches and staff Thursday off. The team will then have its usual Friday-Saturday schedule in advance of the game. ... McCarthys staff spent Monday game-planning for the Lions instead of breaking down film of the victory over Tampa Bay.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '