t from Democrats, who charge it would "end Medicare as we know it." The Senate rejected it in a vote last week, but also unanimously struck down an alternative plan proposed by President Obama.  Democrats said they wanted to leave it off the table while Vice President Biden leads a bipartisan group of senators to come up with a new budget that would include cuts in spending that would satisfy lawmakers who don't want to increase the nation's borrowing limit without reducing government's size. "The one thing we can't do is nothing," McConnell said. "The president, to his credit, is at the table. ... We're going to negotiate the contours of the plan in these negotiations. I'm personally very comfortable with the way Paul Ryan would structure it in the out years, but we have a Democratic president. We're going to have to negotiate with him on the terms of changing Medicare so we can save Medicare." Appearing on the same program, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Republicans to abandon the House Medicare plan, noting an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that says it would require seniors to shoulder an increasingly large share of their health care costs. Schumer said there are only three options -- doing nothing, the Ryan plan or a Democratic vision that preserves benefits and changes "delivery systems," but does "not let providersuly staple of the Combine.Of the 102 players attending the Combine, 61 will be representing the Canadian Hockey League -- over 70 percent of all North American invites. That list includes 28 from the Ontario Hockey League, 19 from the Western Hockey League and 14 from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Additionally, 12 players who spent this past season in the United States Hockey League, including eight from the U.S. National Team Development Program, will also be in attendance."Our protocol is not something that's private," NHL Central Scouting's David Gregory told NHL.com. "It's very public so they can prepare for this kind of testing and that's OK. It's an interesting thing … you get some players like Taylor Hall, who came to the Combine last year one day after finishing the Memorial Cup and went to the testing and went through it with a bunch of bumps and bruises. Tyler Seguin had been out a few weeks and was recovering from his playoff and had been training for the Combine, so there are different ways you can view that." Hall, of course, helped the Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires to two consecutive Memorial Cup championships in 2009 and 2010 and was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament both years. He eventually went No. 1 to the Edmonton Oilers at the 2010 Entry Draft at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Seguin, a center for the OHL's Plymouth Whalers, was chosen second by the Boston Bruins.There are 13 individual tests designed to evaluate the strength and fitness of the draft hopefuls, administered by Dr. Norm Gledhill, a professor of kinesiology at York University. This will be the 17th year Gledhill has tested the athletes at the Toronto-based Combine. Each test is held at a separate station under the watchful eyes of several dozen of Gledhill's employees and graduate students from the York University Human Performance Lab.Unlike previous years, the fitness testing portion of the Combine will be held at the Toronto Congress Center, which is two miles down the road from where the prospects will be stationed and spending a majority of their time in Toronto.The top 84 North American skaters and goalies and top 18 Europeans, including 10 from Sweden, as rated by NHL Central Scouting, will be taking those tests. In addition to Nugent-Hopkins, other players hoping to make an impression will be left wing Gabriel Landeskog and defenseman Ryan Murphy of the Kitchener Rangers; defenseman Dougie Hamilton and center Ryan Strome of the Niagara IceDogs; Drummondville Voltigeurs center Sean Couturier; Portland Winterhawks left wing Sven Baertschi; a group of players from the Saint John Sea Dogs, including centers Jonathan Huberdeau and Zack Phillips, defenseman Nathan Beaulieu and right wing Tomas Jurco; and highly regarded goalies John Gibson of the National Team Development Program and Christopher Gibson of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.Is it possible that an impressive Combine would help elevate the status of defenseman Patrick Koudys of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute? Koudys just made the cut to participate at the Combine as the No. 76-rated North American skater, according to Central Scouting."Where a person can improve or hurt his standing is if he shows great strength in certain areas and a strength and co