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BOSTON -- The Toronto Maple Leafs dont know for sure if Jonathan Bernier will be a franchise goaltender. But they acquired the 24-year-old from the Los Angeles Kings with hopes of finding a long-term solution at the position. "Theres always a gamble when youre taking a young player, but we felt that the gamble was worth taking with the upside that we think that Jonathan has," Maple Leafs general manager Dave Nonis said. Seven years ago Monday, the Boston Bruins took a gamble, too. They sent veteran goalie Andrew Raycroft to Toronto for the rights to first-round draft pick Tuukka Rask. Now, Rask is in the Stanley Cup final with the Bruins while the Maple Leafs go into the off-season hoping that a tandem of Bernier and James Reimer can get the job done. "We feel weve got two of the top young goaltenders in the league right now," Nonis said. "I dont think you can be deep enough at that position." Former Leafs GM John Ferguson Jr. was dealing from depth in 2006. Prospect Justin Pogge had just finished a season with the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League in which he went 38-10-6 with a 1.72 goals-against average and .926 save percentage, and 26-year-old Mikael Tellqvist was also in the system. Rask was the Maple Leafs pick at No. 21, and though he was ranked high, he represented something of an unknown. So much so that when the Raycroft trade happened, Bruins interim GM Jeff Gorton considered taking forward Jiri Tlusty instead. "It was like Tlusty or Rask for Raycroft," said Peter Chiarelli, who became Bostons GM in July 2006. "There was a lot of discussion at both ends about it. It was decided that it would be Rask from Bostons end." Raycroft gave up the most goals in the NHL in 2006-07 and lasted only two seasons in Toronto. Rask was Tim Thomas backup on Bostons 2011 Cup-winning team and is now a legitimate elite goaltender. At the tale end of a long playoff run with the Bruins, the trade is far from Rasks mind. "I was just happy to be part of any organization at that point," Rask said. "Maybe they saw something." Now, the Maple Leafs see something in Bernier, who is more established at this level than Rask was then. Nonis hopes Toronto can cash in on Berniers "pedigree of success." "Hes still young and I still think that hes got a long way to go in terms of development," he said. "A lot of goalies continue to get better well into their late 20s and early 30s, and I think that thats something we can expect from him, as well." Eric Reid Jersey .com) - Manchester City midfielder David Silva is expected to miss the next four weeks because of a calf problem. Sam Mills Jersey . With their top three point guards and Kobe Bryant all sidelined by injury, the Lakers signed Marshall out of the D-League on Friday before their home game against Minnesota. http://www.cheappanthersjerseyselite.com/ . - Blake Griffin had 30 points and 12 rebounds, J. Kyle Love Jersey . 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Cooks 31 fifty-plus scores as captain are also now the most by an England captain, beating Mike Athertons 30. Overall, this was Cooks 29th Test hundred and he goes level with Don Bradman on the list of batsmen with most Test hundreds.186 Deliveries sent down by Yasir Shah in this innings - the most he has bowled in a Test innings before taking a wicket. He bowled 30 overs without taking a wicket in Bangladeshs second innings of the Khulna Test last year. The most he has had to bowl in an innings against England before this was the 72 deliveries he bowled before dismissing Gary Ballance in fourth innings of the Lords Test. Shah finished the day having conceded 111 runs - only the third time he has conceded over 100 in an innings. Cook was the most comfortable batsman against Shah, scoring 36 off 54 deliveries that Shah bowled to him.50Number of Tests in which Cook has led England; only Atherton (54) and Michael Vaughan (51) have captained England in more Tests. Andrew Strauss also led England in 50 Tests. Click here for a list of players who have captained in 50 or more Tests.27Centuries by Cook as an opener in Tests. Only Sunil Gavaskar (33) and Matthew Hayden (30) have hit more centuries as openers in Tests. Graeme Smith also hit 27 hundreds while opening in Tests. Click here for list of openers with most hundreds in Tests.38Number of Test innings by Englands No. 3 batsmen betweeen the hundred in this innings, by Joe Root, and the previous one, by Gary Ballance against West Indies in North Sound last year.dddddddddddd This was Roots first hundred batting at No. 3 for England. He had previously made 258 runs at an average of 28.66 for England at No. 3.2001The last time an England pair put on a higher stand for any wicket at Old Trafford than the one between Cook and Root in this innings. Graham Thorpe and Vaughan added 267 runs for the third wicket against Pakistan on that occasion. The 185-run stand in this Test is also the second-highest for the second wicket for England at this venue and the second-highest for them against Pakistan for the second wicket in Tests.5.20Englands scoring rate for ten overs before tea. In 60 deliveries up to and including the dismissal of Cook, England made 52 runs with seven fours. While Cook scored 26 runs off the 37 balls he faced during these ten overs, Root made 25 runs off just 23 deliveries.1962 Last time before Cook and Root two of Englands top three batsmen got hundreds in an innings in Tests against Pakistan. Colin Cowdrey and Ted Dexter had got 182 and 172 respectively at The Oval on that occasion. This was only the ninth instance when two of the top three batsmen have made hundreds in an innings in Tests outside Asia against Pakistan. The last such instance came in 2002-03 when South Africa openers Smith and Herschelle Gibbs made 151 and 228 respectively in the first innings of the Cape Town Test.26.11Englands average opening stand in Tests at home in 18 innings since the last time their openers put up a century partnership, which was in the first innings against New Zealand at Headingley last year. After that partnership, Englands openers have managed just one fifty stan