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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Lindsey Vonn left Lake Louise with both confidence and the belief she can ski faster.After winning her first downhill in almost two years, the U.S. ski star was second behind winner Lara Gut of Switzerland in Sundays World Cup super-G.World Cup overall leader Tina Maze of Slovenia was third and Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., was 20th.With two knee surgeries in as many years,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, this was the second straight season Vonn launched her comeback at the Lake Louise World Cup. This return looks more promising than a year ago.It meant a lot to have worked so hard for so long and to finally be back in a position where Im contending every race, Vonn said Sunday. Thats more than I could have hoped for.Vonns downhill victory Saturday was her first since Jan. 26,Baltimore Orioles Adam Jones Jersey, 2013. She tore two ligaments and broke a bone in her right leg a month later while racing super-G at the world alpine ski championships.More ligament damage sustained prior to her arrival in Lake Louise last year limited her to just four starts. Another surgery in January sidelined her again.With a career 60 World Cup victories, Vonn is two away from matching the womens record of 62 held by Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria.The four-time overall World Cup champion and first American woman to win Olympic downhill gold in 2010 will return to Colorado to catch up with speed training she missed this fall. Vonn didnt get back on snow until Oct. 1.I have a lot of speed races left in the season, so now I have the confidence I need, Vonn said. Hopefully by the next race, Ill be guns-a-blazing and ready to really put down some good super-G runs.Vonn finished just under four-tenths of a second back of Gut, who claimed her second super-G win in as many years at Lake Louise.Gut didnt make the top-10 in downhill races Friday or Saturday, but set a blistering pace Sunday in a time of one minute 18.46 seconds.Downhill is something that is complicated for me in Lake Louise. Its always a fight, Gut said. Super-G is way more fun for me. I would love if we raced two super-G and just one downhill here, but its not going to happen.After winning the first downhill of the season Friday, Maze looked unhappy with 10th the next day. The reigning Olympic champion in downhill and giant slalom was smiling again after the super-G.That was quite a shock yesterday, Maze acknowledged. I had a lot of adrenalin in my blood.I still have something to do in super-G, but Im really happy with my skiing. Coming here in Lake Louise, I had a big wish to win here once and it happened.Maze and Vonn are deadlocked atop the overall downhill standings. The prize purse in each of the three womens races in Lake Louise was C$118,000 with $35,000 going to each winner.Yurkiw posted a career-best fourth in Saturdays downhill to add to the excitement at the finish line around Vonns victory.The top 30 skiers in each race earn World Cup points, so Canadas lone female downhiller is ranked 11th after opening weekend.Its such a great base, foundation, for the season, Yurkiw said. Its more than we hoped for. Im taking a lot out of this weekend.Slalom and giant slalom specialist Marie-Michele Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que.,Wholesale Jerseys, missed a gate in Sundays super-G. The technical races are her specialty, but Gagnon races some speed events in order to compete in the combined event.Valerie Grenier of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was 32nd in her World Cup debut.Gagnon heads this week to Are, Sweden, for a giant slalom Friday and a slalom Saturday. The next World Cup womens downhill is scheduled for Dec. 20-21 in Val-dIsere, France.        ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Blues won a franchise record 52 games this season and general manager Doug Armstrong cant help but sum it up as a disappointment."Were in the winning business and were not winning at the appropriate time of the year,Cheap NFL Jerseys Chinese," Armstrong said Tuesday. "We have to fix that."The past two playoffs have been a carbon copy for the Blues.In 2013, St. Louis won the first two games against Los Angeles at home and then dropped the next four to the then-defending Stanley Cup champions. This season, St. Louis got the jump on defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago, then again lost four straight to end the season.Armstrong said that this years loss to the Blackhawks was worse."I felt last year that we were coming off of a year where no one expected us to be good the year before and we wanted to prove that we were a good team," Armstrong said. "I expected us to take it to a higher level this year and the higher level was going to be a consistent regular season followed by a longer playoff run. So,NFL Jerseys China, this year, theres a true sense that we have squandered an opportunity and opportunities dont come a lot in this league."While the Blues have been one of the best teams each of the past three regular seasons -- St. Louis had 60 points in a lockout shortened 2012-13 campaign and 109 points in 2011-12 -- it has been a different story in April.Armstrong and coach Ken Hitchcock said that the Blues need to develop a killer instinct if they are to get over their post-season hump."We werent able to create the gap in Games 3 and 4 and win on the road, which you have to do in the playoffs," Hitchcock said. "Thats the killer instinct that you need to have. We werent able to do it in either series, aand it hurts.  dd"Thats everyones responsibility. Mine,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Dougs, the players, other coaches, everybody. Thats the part that hurts. 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The Blues thought they had added the final piece when the traded for RyanMiller just before the deadline. But Miller, who is a free agent, allowed 19 goals against the Blackhawks and his save percentage was just .897.Armstrong said that JakeAllen,Cheap NFL Jerseys, who had another strong year in the American Hockey League, will be one of the teams net minders. Who the will partner with Allen is up in the air."Its a two-way street with Ryan right now," Armstrong said. "He has opportunities. I want to sit and talk with him and get his feelings about our organization. See where he thinks were at, see if he even has any interest in being a St. Louis Blue."