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Kentuckys Joel Justus will replace longtime assistant John Robic on John Caliparis staff this season, the head coach announced Friday.Robic, who has been with Calipari for more than 20 years, will become a special assistant while Justus move to temporary assistant -- his role during the offseason while Robic dealt with the death of his father -- will become permanent.Calipari said the switch will allow Kentucky to build ties with underclassmen at the prep level -- Justus will focus on younger players -- who have formed early relationships with other programs, affording those schools a recruiting advantage.Robic, who first joined Caliparis staff in the 1980s at UMass, will continue to help the staff scout and prep for opponents, but he cant recruit on the road or coach during games, per Kentucky spokeswoman Deb Moore.We need one guy focused on the younger guys, Calipari wrote Friday on his blog. We became so fixated on trying to replace players each year that we werent touching some of the younger kids and were coming in late. Because of that, just about every other program has been ahead of us on underclassmen recruiting, and it has affected some of the kids who we werent able to touch until later in the process.Thats my fault. I believe Joel will greatly help in that area and fills a void. Now with that said, I dont see us offering scholarships to freshmen and sophomores.Justus joined the staff as an analytics expert two years ago. He became a special assistant last season before moving into his current role.Kentucky will enter the 2016-17 season with ESPN.coms top-rated recruiting class. But Duke has secured that title in two of the past three years.The Wildcats have not signed the No. 1 recruit in the country, per ESPN.coms rankings, since Nerlens Noel arrived in 2012.Calipari said promoting Justus will help Kentucky compete for the top young talent in the coming years.I just dont want to be put in a position where Im walking in on a kid for the first time having been defined for two years by four other programs who are panicked by the prospect of us getting involved, Calipari wrote. I want to make sure were on top of every young kid in the country, especially the ones that dream about Kentucky. That will be part of Joels primary focus, and hes ready for it. Custom Pittsburgh Pirates Jerseys . After a lengthy wait, persistent rain finally forced the postponement of the Nationals game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday night. 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(Howard) was good, PK was good. Then I thought the longer the game went, the more battles we won, more chances we got. But we got to be better.Schaller scored with 2:11 left in the second period as his shot from along the goal line in the right corner went in off of Howards left hip. It was Schallers first goal of the season.On the goal, I thought I took everything away on the short side and somehow he managed to bank it in -- off the post, off me and in, Howard said.He plays hard and he makes things happen, Julien said about Schaller.The play was the result of a turnover by the Red Wings Dylan Larkin in the high slot.Detroit coach Jeff Blashill challenged that the play was offside going into the Detroit zone but the play was determined to be onside after a video review.They were hungrier than us all over the ice, outside of Zetterrbergs line, Blashill said.dddddddddddd I thought Zetterbergs line had lots of compete in them, as a result they were the only ones to have any zone time. Maybe a player here and a player there, but as a group they outcompeted us. ... We should have known better than that. In the end it wasnt good enough.The goal also ended Howards shutout streak at 156:02.He stopped the Bruins Austin Czarnik on a one-timer from the bottom of the left circle 7:27 into the second period.Rask made an athletic save on a tip by Detroits Tomas Tatar off a shot by defenseman Jonathan Ericsson at about the eight-minute mark of the middle period.Howard denied Schaller on a short-handed breakaway attempt with 8:38 left in the second.I thought I had him beat, but it went off the knob of his stick, Schaller said. When I got back to the bench, I asked (teammate defenseman Adam McQuaid) if that was a great save or luck, and he said thats just luck. I guess fourth-line guys dont get the nice goals, but the greasy ones count the sameDetroit forward Steve Ott speared Boston defenseman and captain Zdeno Chara in the groin/hip area shortly after the opening face-off but neither referee saw it. Ott and Chara got into a scrum and both received an unsportsmanlike conduct minor 43 seconds into the game.NOTE: Detroit LW Thomas Vanek missed his second game with a lower-body injury. ... Bruins F David Pastrnak served the first game of a two-game suspension because of an illegal check to the head of New York Rangers D Dan Girardi on Wednesday night. ... The Bruins sent G Malcolm Subban to their AHL affiliate in Providence.UP NEXT:Bruins: At Florida on Tuesday night.Red Wings: Host Florida on Sunday. ' ' '