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Article: Veteran center has played for Risebrough, Lemaire.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 12, 2000
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ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Players wanting a scouting report on Minnesota Wild general manager Doug Risebrough and head coach Jacques Lemaire need to look no further than Jim Dowd.
The 31-year-old center has links to the two men who are in charge of building the NHL expansion team.
Dowd was among the 19 players the Wild brought to St. Paul on Wednesday to tour the Xcel Energy Center and visit the area they will call home if they make the team that begins play in October.
In 1998, Risebrough signed Dowd to play for the Edmonton Oilers, where the former was the vice president of hockey operations. In 1995, Dowd lifted the Stanley Cup in triumph with coach ...