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Court Vision is a breakdown of the weekly schedule to help you set your fantasy lineup.

The Golden State Warriors continue to warm the hearts of fantasy owners in need of a helping hand. Just look at what Brandon Jennings did to the Warriors last night -- 55 points on 21-of-34 shooting (61.8-percent), seven treys, five rebounds and five assists. There seems to be a running theme with young players performing at their peak against Golden State.

In the Warriors past five games, three rookies, a sophomore and a Danny Granger each led their respective teams in scoring. Jennings with his 55 points, Tyreke Evans dropped 32 points, Jonny Flynn had 19 points and Danilo Gallinari had 19 and 10 against the Warriors. This must kill Stephen Curry who is not seeing the early minutes most expected him to get.

At any rate, it's nice to see the Golden State Warriors show up on the schedule when you're looking at your weekly matchups. Let's see who gets the lucky draw this week.

After last year's unmitigated disaster -- which moved at the pace of a beer league game -- the NHL has dramatically re-imagined its YoungStars All-Star Weekend event, making it less of a game than a puckhead version of Streetball (which matches well with the rumored "slam dunk competition" later in the evening, and should fuel those "Bettman is an NBA sleeper agent" conspiracy theories). According to NHL.com, the two YoungStars teams "will play two six-minute periods of running time. One faceoff will start each period. If the puck leaves the ice, another will get thrown on. If a team scores, the three players have to retreat to their defensive side of center ice before attacking again. For a team to be declared the victor, it will have to win each period."

Eh, whatever. Sounds fun, especially with Patrick Kane, Sam Gagner and Peter Mueller operating in the West and no big lumbering mope named Malkin in the East this time around. Mirtle correctly points out that most of these players might as well be rookies from the Martian League for the general populace of hockey fans in Atlanta, but I think this format works well to defuse that problem: A few dazzling goals by these players in a 3-on-3 format and the fans will come around. Where the League has made an enormous mistake is between the pipes. Eric Duhatschek reports that due to the lack of rookie talent in goal these days -- Carey Price, we hardly knew ye -- the regular all-star goalie will also play the rookie game.

Great. As a Devils fan, the last thing I want to see is an overworked Marty Brodeur stretching to stop Kane/Mueller 2-on-1's followed by a few Western Conference trick-shots later in the skills competitions. But more importantly: Who the hell wants to see quality defense in either the YoungStars game or the "slam dunk" competition? Forget the cream of the crop; the NHL should draft the four biggest slices of Swiss in the League at the break and punish them by turning them into All-Star skills competition prop sieves.

Finally, a reason to get Atlanta's Johan Hedberg (3.18 GAA, .899 save percentage), Tampa Bay's Johan Holmqvist (3.09, .886), Edmonton's Dwayne Roloson (3.12, .901) and Los Angeles King and television personality Jean-Sebastien Aubin (3.20, .889) into this year's all-star festivities.

Luc Robitaille is certainly one of the most surprising hockey stars of all time. Drafted in the 9th round and not blessed with impressive physical skills (speed and size), Luc used his smarts and wicked shot to put together a legendary career.

When most scouts and teams didn't think Luc would amount to much, Robitaille put together a career worthy of a Hall-of-Famer with 668 goals and 726 assists in 1431 games. Most of these points seemed to be due to Luc being in the right place at the right time, which led to the 'Lucky' moniker catching on quickly.

However, the origin of the nickname might surprise you, as Luc revealed to David Amber during an interesting interview conducted for ESPN.com:

Q: Who gave you the nickname "Lucky" Luc?

A: Tiger Williams did in my rookie year. We had a player on our team named Morris Lukowich and everyone would call him Luke. So every time anyone called out "Luke," we would both turn around. In my rookie year, I was living with Marcel Dionne at his house, and after my very first game, Tiger started calling me "Lucky." Guys started asking him why he was calling me "Lucky," and he said partly because of the Morris Lukowich confusion, but mostly because I was a rookie living in the biggest house on the team! Every day, I drove to practice in a Mercedes, which was Marcel's car; and I also scored a goal on my first shot on my first shift in the NHL. So that was pretty lucky. I couldn't argue with that.

In case you are wondering, Luc's pick for the cup is the rival Anaheim Ducks. (traitor!!)