内容摘要：“I think we spent seven months getting ready for this playoff run. Like, I think it was on our minds since we lost that last game,” coach Kris Knoblauch said. “A long, tough summer, and training camp, regular season and it was just kind of punching our card, showing up, wanting the playoffs, just having another opportunity.”

“I think we spent seven months getting ready for this playoff run. Like, I think it was on our minds since we lost that last game,” coach Kris Knoblauch said. “A long, tough summer, and training camp, regular season and it was just kind of punching our card, showing up, wanting the playoffs, just having another opportunity.”

A few weeks before the CVS in Herscher, Illinois, closed in early March, farmer Kip Harms picked up a muscle relaxer for a back injury. He asked the staff if he could take it with Tylenol.Harms said he’ll have other options in the rural area that’s nearly 80 miles south of Chicago, but it won’t be the same.

“You can stand here and have a conversation,” said Harms, 56, from nearby Cullom. “You go to the big giant one where there’s 40 people in line, you feel like you’re inconveniencing the person that’s helping you.”Lachandretta “LaLa” Williams reaches for a pill bottle at MAC Pharmacy in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Lachandretta “LaLa” Williams reaches for a pill bottle at MAC Pharmacy in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

The big drugstore chains still have thousands of locations, and the AP’s analysis counted more than 24,000 independent pharmacies. But drugstores routinely close because they aren’t doing well or the population has dropped — and the pace of closures is picking up.CVS said in 2021 that it planned to close 900 stores over three years; more than 600 already have shuttered. Rite Aid is expected to close hundreds as it works through

Across the U.S., more than 7,000 pharmacies have closed since 2019, according to data from University of Pittsburgh researcher Lucas Berenbrok, who considers that estimate conservative. Of those pharmacies, 54% were independent drugstores, an AP analysis of Berenbrok’s data found.

“I think what (drugstores) have realized in the past couple years is that they are a little thinly spread out,” said Keonhee Kim, an analyst at the research firm Morningstar.as Vrabel, in his first year coaching the team he played on for eight of his 14 NFL seasons, tries to improve on back-to-back four-win finishes under Bill Belichick and Jerod Mayo.

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars have done what no other team has over the past three decades while reaching three conference finals in a row.They failed to win a Stanley Cup during their run. They didn’t even give themselves the opportunity to play for one.

“Three years in a row now, you get that close and you come up short ... obviously not a good feeling,” said Jamie Benn, the nearly 36-year-old captain who is about to be an unrestricted free agent after 16 seasons in Dallas.For the third season in a row, and the second against Edmonton, the Stars ended with a loss in the Western Conference final. They