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As a rookie he suffered a shoulder injury and did not catch a pass.

Hoecht, 27, had been a veteran presence for a Rams edge rushing group that included NFL defensive rookie of the year Jared Verse and Byron Young.

With the Dodgers opening their season with two games in Tokyo, there was never really a doubt Japan’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto would pitch the first game and rookie Roki Sasaki the second.

But for Kings TV analyst Jim Fox, who played with Gretzky and has watched Ovechkin since his rookie season with the Washington Capitals, that record is nothing but a number.

While he was sidelined, rookies Cam Hart and Tarheeb Still emerged as long-term answers in the secondary.