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Leeds have been in free fall in the 2016 Super League season - last years treble-winners find themselves 10th on the table with just three wins from 12 games. The Rhinos have had numerous injuries this season with full-back Zak Hardaker plus second rowers Carl Ablett and Brett Delaney the latest to join that list. The Rhinos also lost their training base to flooding when the river Aire burst its banks on Boxing Day, however Hardaker says that Leeds have simply not been consistent enough to challenge for the top of the table. Brad Singleton, Zak Hardaker and Jimmy Keinhorst reflect on Leeds opening couple of months to the season and look ahead to their clash with Huddersfield You could go down the route of injuries and training facilities, but I am not about that, Hardaker told Sky Sports.It is all about consistency on the pitch. We have played some great rugby and we have played some absolutely appalling rugby. That sums us up where we are.The points we scored at St Helens were terrific but to let 30 odd points in was not so good. If we can attack like we did against Saints but then defend like we did against Hull then we will slowly start to climb up the table. Highlights from the match between St Helens and Leeds in the Super League Huddersfield have not been the force they were last year either - having won only two of their 12 games. Leeds and Huddersfield will play against each other twice in a row after being drawn against each other in the Challenge Cup, and Hardaker says the main focus for Leeds is to get the win on Friday.Leeds v Huddersfield have always been great games - in previous years we have always been battling it out at the top of the table but this game we are fighting at the bottom of the table. It is going to be an interesting game - Huddersfield are desperate to get off the bottom and we are desperate not to fall to the bottom.You can play as well as you like but if you dont get the two points at the end of the game then it does not really matter. On Friday the main aim there is to get the two points, then we can start thinking of the Challenge Cup.Huddersfield have lost prop Craig Huby with a torn pectoral muscle so Eorl Crabtree is recalled and coach Paul Anderson has called up teenage centre Jake Wardle, younger brother of Joe, for the first time. Winger Gene Ormsby is recalled for a last appearance of his loan spell and Tyler Dickinson replaces Kruise Leeming. 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Its the first generation of top-tier talent to come out of the state and they are “Gretzkys Children”. TSN and Sports Illustrated hockey analyst Michael Farber examined how Gretzkys trip to the south inspired a new wave of expansion and relocation, bringing the game to new sun-belt frontiers like Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa Bay and Anaheim. The result – “Gretzkys Children” – aired on Mondays SportsCentre to kick off TSNs week-long “Trade at 25” special to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Kings acquisition of The Great One. Hockey had been played in California since the 1920s but until recently the native Californian in the NHL has been an anomaly. However, since Gretzky arrived, hockey has taken root at the youth level, spawning what Farber labels “the most significant western migration since the movies came to Hollywood.” Proof can already be found from the fruits of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, held in Los Angeles. Beau Bennett - selected 20th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins – and Anaheim 29th overall pick Emerson Etem became the highest-ever California-born and trained first-rounders. The moment was not lost on the players themselves. “It showed that people were starting to take California hockey a little more seriously,” Bennett. That draft was a particular boon for hockey in The United States with 11 players going in the first round alone. But it was the innflux from California that made this class stand-out in addition to the picks from traditional hockey hot-beds like Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Wisconsin.dddddddddddd But the true Hollywood invasion may be yet to come. The returns on the investment the Kings made in trading for Gretzky is still paying dividends, with minor hockey teams from the Golden State starting to make waves at very high levels of competition. In 2012 an LA-based team won the prestigious Quebec International Pee-Wee Tournament and the reigning U.S. National High School Champions are based out of Anaheim. The talent is increasing because registration increased and it was directly tied to Gretzkys arrival. “When he was brought in the registration was around 3,000 kids that were playing the game in the state,” said former NHLer Craig Johnson. “He brought 12,000 kids in from 1991 to 1995-96.” Johnson knows all about the beginning of the post-Gretzky boom, himself being part of the return the Los Angeles Kings got from the St. Louis Blues when they traded Gretzky in 1996. It can be argued that without Gretzky there would be no Anaheim Ducks or Florida Panthers, but if California develops into another source of young NHL talent, there will likely be little argument over the source. TSNs Trade at 25 coverage continues on SportsCentre tomorrow with “Dollars and Cents,” a look at Gretzkys impact on boardrooms across the NHL. Visit www.tsn.ca/tradeat25 now for exclusive video content including “Gretzkys Children” and vintage news clips from the day the trade broke. Photo galleries, social media content and exclusive Gretzky trade-based stories will also be available on the site throughout the week. ' ' '