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MONTREAL -- Montreal Canadiens forward Blake Geoffrion announced his retirement on Monday. The 25-year-old had been considering stepping away from hockey due to lingering effects of a skull fracture and concussion suffered during an American Hockey League game in November. Geoffrion, the grandson of Canadiens legend Bernie Geoffrion and great-grandson of superstar Howie Morenz, notified general manager Marc Bergevin in March that he might retire. "After suffering an injury in November and taking time to recover and reflect, I have decided to step away from the game of hockey for the time being," Geoffrion said in a statement Monday. The six-foot-one centre was skating for the Hamilton Bulldogs when he suffered a depressed skull fracture from a hit by defenceman Jean-Philippe Cote of the Syracuse Crunch during a Nov. 9 American Hockey League game at the Bell Centre. The Plantation, Fla., native underwent surgery a day later to repair damage that his father Dan Geoffrion, who also played briefly for the Canadiens, said could have been life-threatening or caused brain damage. The Canadiens acquired Geoffrion on Feb. 25, 2012 as part of a trade that sent defenceman Hal Gill to the Nashville Predators. He had two goals in 13 games for Montreal last season. Geoffrion won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award in 2010 as the top player in U.S. university hockey with the Wisconsin Badgers. He was selected in the second round of the 2006 NHL draft by Nashville. He has eight goals and five assists in 55 career NHL games. "A young player appreciated by everyone within our organization, Blake has shown a lot of courage since suffering a serious injury," said Bergevin. "He made the decision to end his professional hockey career and we wish him the very best in his future endeavours." 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Halladay signed a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday that allowed the veteran right-hander to retire as a member of team with which he broke into the majors and spent the bulk of his distinguished 16-year career. LOUDON, N.H. -- Carl Edwards has mastered the art of starting first at New Hampshire.Its winning the race that has caused him fits.Edwards turned a lap of 135.453 mph to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup pole at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He took the top spot Friday for the third time in the last four New Hampshire races and he won his sixth pole of the season.We need to turn that into a race win, Edwards said.The Joe Gibbs Racing driver has failed to win in 24 career starts at New Hampshire. Edwards finished seventh and fifth off his two poles last season. Edwards would advance to the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with a win on Sunday.Hed rather take the checkered flag in the No. 19 Toyota and not have to worry about taking care of business next week at Dover.If we have a bad day here, Im going to be real upset about it for about three or four days and then if you have a bad day at Dover, youre going to be upset for the rest of the year, he said.Edwards led the way for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship drivers. Martin Truex Jr. followed his Chase win at Chicagoland Speedway with a solid qualifying run to join Edwards on the front row.Ryan Newman will start third, followed by Chase drivers Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Jamie McMurray, and Matt Kenseth.Chase drivers Chris Buescher and Austin Dillon failed to advance out of the first round of qualifying. Fellow Chase drivers Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart failed to get out of the second round.Edwards won his 22nd career pole. He had never won more than three poles in a season.The cars are great, but its not just that, Edwards said.Its Toyota. Its crew chief Dave Rogers. Its the support of having three stellar teammates in Kenseth, Hamlin and Kyle Busch (who starts 12th).Kenseth has won the last two New Hampshire races for JGGR.ddddddddddddI became a lot better certainly when I started driving there. Its funny how that works, he said.Here are some other items of note from Friday at New Hampshire.DELAY OF GAME: Inspection issues delayed several cars from taking the track in the first round of qualifying. Nearly a dozen cars were in line at the inspection station once qualifying started. Clint Bowyer spun during his lap to bring out the red flag and buy time for the rest of the cars to complete inspection.TOUGH BREAK: Chris Buescher (28th) and Austin Dillon (29th) have the worst starting spots among Chase drivers. Dillon qualified in a back-up car following an accident in practice.Its not the exact same car, its a little older car, but same type of car we ran here the first time and we ran pretty solid in that race, Dillon said. We will just go out there and drive it hard and see what it gives me.Buescher realized that just making the Chase because of a rain-shortened win at Pocono will stand as the highlight of his season.Were playing our own game right now, he said. We know that if we come out of here and do the best we can, put in our maximum effort, thats all we can do.THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS: NASCAR drivers have found the violent protests in Charlotte, North Carolina in the wake of the fatal shooting of a black man by police unsettling.The NASCAR Hall of Fame in downtown Charlotte had its exterior damaged this week during violent protests.A lot of times when you see things like this happen its in a different city and you dont recognize where its at, but when you see the NASCAR building getting vandalized and you see areas of the city that you know very well with just crazy things happening, it makes you sick to your gut, Logano said. ' ' '