The 40-year-old will not start against the rival New York Rangers Tuesday night, but he did not rule out backing up Johan Hedberg, who has started every game in his absence.

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The bipartisan backing of the Volcker Rule by some of the "gray eminences" of finance seems to suggest relatively easy passage of his idea, despite rumblings last week that the U.S. Senate wasn't exactly sanguine.

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This is due to a rule that states if a club in Germany receives major financial backing from one party for over 20 years, that party can then take a controlling stake in the club.

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And that has added to the frustration over, for example, Mr Putin's backing for Syria's government or a senior Russian general's statement that the country did not rule out the possibility of a nuclear first strike against missile-defence sites.

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