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WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Jonathan Huberdeau left with an apparent left leg injury during the Florida Panthers 4-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.As Huberdeau turned away from a check behind New Jerseys net, the skate of Devils center Sergey Kalinin appeared to come down on Huberdeaus left ankle. The Panthers have not offered an update on Huberdeaus status.Roberto Luongo made 25 saves and Jonathan Marchessault, Colton Sceviour, Aaron Ekblad and Vincent Trocheck scored for Florida.Goaltending tandem Cory Schneider and Keith Kinkaid split time in goal for New Jersey. Schneider allowed all four Florida goals on 15 shots, while Kinkaid stopped all eight shots he faced.Andy Greene and Michael Cammalleri scored for New Jersey.BLUE JACKETS STING PENGUINSIn Pittsburgh, Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice and Sergei Bobrovsky made 22 saves to help the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 in the preseason finale for both teams.Matt Calvert had a goal and an assist, Brandon Saad and Boone Jenner also scored, and Alexander Wennberg had two assists.Kris Letang, Evgeni Malkin and Scott Wilson scored for the Stanley Cup champion Penguins. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 31 shots.BRUINS SLIP PAST FLYERSIn Boston, Ryan Spooners breakaway goal 1:48 into overtime lifted the Boston Bruins over the Philadelphia Flyers 1-0.David Backes pass led Spooner on a breakaway before he snapped a quick shot past goalie Steve Mason.Mason made 22 saves.Tuukka Rask stopped 27 shots.WINGS SOAR OVER LEAFSIn Detroit, Anthony Manthas third goal of the preseason with 8:03 left broke a tie and powered the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.Detroit led 3-1 after two periods. Gustav Nyquist and Dylan Larkin scored in the first period, and Brendan Smith added a goal late in the second.Toronto scored twice in a 12-second span to start the third period and tied it 3-3. William Nylander made it 3-2 39 seconds in, and Brooks Laichs first of the exhibition season at 51 seconds drew the game even.Zach Hyman scored in the second period for Toronto.Petr Mrazek made 29 saves for Detroit, while Toronto goaltender Frederik Andersen stopped 19 of 23 shots.STAMKOS LEADS LIGHTNING OVER PREDATORSIn Tampa, Florida, Steven Stamkos three-assist performance helped the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Nashville Predators 5-3.Nikita Nesterov, Brayden Point, Jonathan Drouin, Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat scored for the Lightning, while Tampa Bay goaltenders Ben Bishop and Andrei Vasilevskiy split time in net. Bishop made 14 saves on 16 shots in two periods, and Vasilevskiy stopped seven of eight shots in the third.Pekka Rinne allowed all five Lightning goals on 36 shots.Craig Smith scored twice for the Predators, and Colin Wilson added a goal. Devils Jerseys China . 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Fans of a certain age are probably already hearing the jingle in their heads. While the commercial is famous, the story of how the spot came to be isnt told as much. But its just as good as the commercial itself.Executives at Gatorade, then owned by Chicago-based Quaker Oats, were head-over-heels for good reason -- theyd just stolen their hometown star from Coca-Cola, fresh off his first championship. Quaker paid a hefty price to land Michael Jordan -- a 10-year, $13.5 million deal and the promise that he would be the beverages only endorser.Days before the first commercial was to debut, advertising exec Bernie Pitzel, who had come in late in the process, got a preview of the spot that was already approved.Pitzel was honest. He thought it was awful. It merely featured highlights of Jordan dunking, something that Nike had shown countless times in its spots with Jordan over the previous six years.Pitzel wanted a chance to do something iconic. OK, the Gatorade execs said. So the ad went from idea to final version in three days.Pitzels original idea was to show kids looking up to Jordan while playing the song I Wanna Be Like You from the 1967 film The Jungle Book that Disney had recently rereleased. But Pitzel said Disney wanted Gatorade to pay $350,000 for a five-week run. At the time, the cost was too much.So Pitzel went back to the drawing board, sat down at his favorite Italian restaurant, and came up with the Be Like Mike lyrics on a napkin in four hours.dddddddddddd Pitzel put the lyrics to four local music houses and quickly settled on jingle specialists Ira Antelis and Steve Shafer.The result was the commercial song that the world came to love, which was then paired with Jordan and kids, and the spot was quickly shot. The rest is history.If we had used music from The Jungle Book, the advertisement would have been forgotten, Antelis told me for my book on Gatorade, First In Thirst.Instead, we generated a piece of music that we could own that the world could identify with Gatorade.While the commercial was lauded throughout the world, it actually didnt translate to dollars and cents. People loved it, but the efficacy of the product wasnt featured, which meant that the original spot might have been better for sales, but not for fans of Jordan.When we brought it back to real highlights and Michael sweating, it worked better, said Gatorade marketer Peggy Dyer.Widely acclaimed sports commercials that actually dont do what they were intended to do -- sell product -- are actually quite common. Mean Joe Greenes 1979 Coca-Cola spot with the young kid is often called the greatest sports commercial of all time. Coke commissioned athletes in various countries to play a role similar to Greenes but halted the project when the company determined that the spots didnt actually help sell soda. ' ' '