Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri is keen to ensure their impressive season is not a one-off, despite conceding they are having a strange year.The Foxes have been installed as Premier League title favourites after opening up a five-point lead at the top of the Premier League table following last weekends 3-1 victory at Manchester City.They face another big test of their title credentials in a Super Sunday clash at third-placed Arsenal on Sunday, but Ranieri said his aims have not changed since his summer appointment at the King Power Stadium. Leicester Citys 3-1 win over Manchester City has no significance at all says Claudio Ranieri When I signed, our objective was clear - to build this team, gradually bringing it to the top spots, Ranieri told Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport.We know were having a strange year, were doing well because the big teams havent found their rhythm, but our plans wont change next year beyond what happens at the end of this season. Vardy has a unique characteristic, he runs at 1,000 miles an hour and always at the same speed. Claudio Ranieri on Jamie Vardy We must continue to build to target, in the next three or four years, the top spots in the Premier League and fighting for the Europa League.If we do all this in advance in one year we mustnt applaud ourselves, next year well start again from scratch.Asked about comparisons with the success of smaller clubs in Italy, Ranieri replied: Are we like Foggia, Chievo and Empoli?Its a similar story for the feelings it provokes, but there isnt much of a comparison with the three Italian teams from a strictly football point of view.Foggia, Chievo and Empoli were built over time, while we were born immediately. Leicester only just survived relegation last season after an incredible finish to their campaign in which they won seven of their closing nine matches under previous manager Nigel Pearson.Ranieri was a surprise choice to succeed Pearson following his ill-fated spell in charge of the Greece national team but Leicester have lost only twice in the Premier League since his appointment.Leicester have impressed as a unit but Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy have provided their main attacking threat, scoring 32 Premier League goals between them.This year Mahrez has given us incredible magic, added Ranieri. Technically I dont know who he resembles, he has immense quality and is our reference point: when we need to create, we give the ball to him. Jamie Vardy has scored 18 times for the Foxes this season Vardy on the other hand has a unique characteristic, he runs at 1,000 miles an hour and always at the same speed.Watch Arsenal v Leicester City, the opening game of a Super Sunday triple bill. 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Patrice Bergeron and Daniel Paille scored 20 seconds apart a few minutes after Stamkos was taken off the ice on a stretcher with a broken right leg, and the Bruins beat the Lightning 3-0 on Monday afternoon.ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Andrew Luck didnt need to see the film of Cam Newton getting clobbered to realize Denvers defense can put a serious hurt on the quarterback.Luck led the Colts to a big win over the Broncos last year but ended up in the hospital afterward with a lacerated kidney and torn abdominal muscle that sidelined him for the final two months of the season.Lesson learned.After playing in just seven games in 2015 and then signing a megadeal this summer that includes a record $87 million in guarantees, Luck is more cognizant of protecting both his body and team owner Jim Irsays investment in him.As a quarterback you have an obligation to be on the field, Luck said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters in Denver, where the Colts (0-1) play this weekend. That involves taking care of your body. Situationally, there are times when I need to slide or throw the ball away and Ive been working on that.Theres a balance hes trying to find so he doesnt lose any of whats made him the quarterback he is.Youre going to go out there and take a hit if the games on the line or in (certain) other situations, Luck said. But I think in every year Im trying to approach the game in a better, more efficient way. So, I guess this is somewhat of a natural progression, as well.Luck was only sacked once but hit 11 times by the Broncos last year. His worst hit came when he was sandwiched by defensive end Vance Walker and linebacker Danny Trevathan, but he finished up and led the Colts to a 27-24 win in Indianapolis.The Broncos lost Trevathan to free agency and Walker was penciled in as Malik Jacksons replacement until he blew out a knee in training camp.That doesnt mean the Broncos are any less of a hazard to Lucks health.A lot of other guys got big hits on him, too, cornerback Chris Harris said. That wasnt the only hit. Everybody got big hits on him. Like I said, Luck put his body on the line against us. Just like Cam Newton did last week. Quarterbacks know if they want to beat us, theyve got to go all-out.Like Newton, Luck doesnt avoid hits like say, the elusive Russell Wilson.No, Andrew Luck ddoesnt slide too much, Harris said.ddddddddddddThose guys try to run you over. So, youve got to hit them like running backs.Thats what Denvers defense did to Newton last week, hammering him 17 times, including four helmet-to-helmet hits, two of which resulted in fines for linebacker Brandon Marshall and safety Darian Stewart.Their hits on Newton, along with those of Super Bowl MVP Von Miller and cornerback Bradley Roby, sparked a debate about player safety, the viability of read-option QBs in this league and whether Denvers defense had crossed the line.Luck is up next and, like the leagues disciplinarians, hes been studying the Panthers-Broncos game film all week.Yeah, tough, physical, good, really good players all around the field, Luck said. Obviously, theyre a winning group. They know how to win. Well-coached. Coach (Wade) Phillips does a heck of a job, everywhere hes been. Certainly great pass rushers, really good cover guys. Really, theres no weakness on the defense.One adjective that many are using to describe Denvers defense is dirty.Not Luck.I wouldnt necessarily agree with that, he said. They play hard, theyre well-coached and obviously everybodys entitled to their own opinion. They do a good job. They really do.Colts coach Chuck Pagano thinks so, too.Theyre an athletic, physical, tough, attacking, swarming defense, Pagano said. Theyve got talent front to back. The edge pressure that you get, the way that they run to the football, the linebackers are sideline to sideline and the secondary is as good a unit as there is in the National Football League. Theyre a physical, physical unit.Game notesWR Demaryius Thomas (left hip) returned to practice and coach Gary Kubiak reiterated his belief that hell play Sunday. 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