West Brom manager Tony Pulis has agreed a one-year extension to his contract which commits him to the Hawthorns until the summer of 2018. The 58-year-olds previous deal was due to expire in June, but he can now concentrate on preparing for the visit of Premier League leaders Manchester City on Saturday.Pulis has been at the club since January 2015 and Albions new Chinese owners, led by businessman Guochuan Lai, have kept faith in the former Stoke manager. Leicester vs W Brom November 6, 2016, 4:15pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass Pulis, who recently passed the celebrated milestone of 1,000 games as a first-team manager, told West Broms club website: This is a time of great change at Albion and when that happens you need continuity.As I have said from the outset, I want to build things here and play my part in improving the club. You cannot do these things overnight but I do believe, step by step, we are making advances.I think the bulk of our fans understand the process we embarked upon under the shadow of relegation less than two years ago. The new owners are keen to establish West Brom as a top-10 side in the Premier League We have a club which can aspire to be an established top-10 member of the football league everyone in the world wants to be part of. I want to continue to front that challenge.Pulis arrived at The Hawthorns having won the acclaim of his peers by rescuing Crystal Palace from relegation in the 2013/14 season. It was a feat which earned him the Premier League Manager of the Year award.At his pre-match news conference Pulis revealed he had spoken at length with chairman John Williams and the new Chinese owners and says he is happy with how they plan to gradually help the club grow. Premier League highlights of Liverpool 2-1 West Brom from October 22 The club wants to push forward, they want to do it in a structured way, they want it to be organised in a way that they are not going to throw hundreds of millions at it. They want to do it step by step and the fact they want to do it that way is what I like doing, Pulis said. I like staying at clubs and building clubs and working them through. We have 18 months to get a stronger foundation and bring in, hopefully, better players and take the club further forward.That aim of being a top-10 Premier League club, they are very keen now to try and get to that next step if they can but they wont do it by throwing hundreds of millions of pounds at it. It has been a difficult club to manage in lots of respects because it is different the way it is set up, the way it has been run, but Ive enjoyed it. I think it is a very, very good club. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. I think it can get better, it has to get better. Given the opportunities and the chance, and speaking to the people above, that opportunity and that chance now to grow, not overnight, but gradually and doing it in the proper way appeals to me.Williams believes the new deal for Pulis is in line with the aims of the clubs new ownership group which is targeting stability, continuity and a top-10 finish in the long term.Tony has huge experience and proven know-how in one of the most demanding leagues in world football, said Williams. He brings assurance and stability at an important time, when the club is moving from one long-established ownership regime to the new leadership from China. Pulis joined West Brom in January 2015 From the outset, the takeover announcement made it clear that this new era would work to progress Albion to an established top-10 club without jeopardising continuity on and off the field.With this is mind, I am pleased we have extended Tonys contract. 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Frequent linemate Artem Anisimov was red-hot as well, with an 11-game point streak between Oct. 15 and Nov. 6.Just your run-of-the-mill dominance from a team for whom dominance has become commonplace. But -- have appearances been deceiving for the Blackhawks? And, more to the point, will this current road trip help bring the Blackhawks big picture into greater -- if not more accurate -- focus?In short, the answer is yes.In some ways, thats always been the case. When Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey invade the United Center for an extended stay through the Thanksgiving holidays each November, the Blackhawks subsequent road trip serves multiple purposes -- not the least of which is giving the team a chance for critical self-evaluation.This season, the annual circus trip might be even more important for Chicago, both in terms of accurately assessing where the team stands and in that it will allow the Blackhawks to more fully integrate a significant number of young players into the fold. Twin threads of the same tapestry, if you will.Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman acknowledged that his teams record might have been a little misleading, given how well netminders Corey Crawford and backup Scott Darling had played leading up to the trip.Crawford, overshadowed in some ways by the play of Carey Price in Montreal and a red-hot Tuukka Rask in Boston, has put together a body of work early on that should suggest Vezina Trophy and perhaps even Hart Trophy consideration.Coreys been unbelievable, Bowman said. Its allowed us to not play that well and still gain some confidence.Crawfords play specifically has helped mask transitional challenges for a lineup that features five rookies and another first-year player in 26-year-old defenseman Michal Kempny, a native of the Czech Republic?who came over from Russias Kontinental Hockey League during the offseason.When the Blackhawks -- who are a gaudy 8-1-2 at the United Center -- kicked off the circus trip by getting shut out in Winnipeg 4-0 Tuesday night, leveling their road record at 3-3, it reinforced the notion that they have a lot to learn during the trip.This is going to be a good benchmark for us as a team, Bowman said in an interview a few hours before Chicagos trip-opening loss.The Blackhawks have won three cchampionships since 2010, but they followed up a 2015 Stanley Cup win with a first-round ouster at the hands of the?St.dddddddddddd Louis Blues?last spring. Several key parts of that 2015 Cup roster are long gone, including Patrick Sharp, Brad Richards, Teuvo Teravainen, Kimmo Timonen, Antoine Vermette, Andrew Shaw and Brandon Saad.The Chicago model is the future for everyone, whether you win Cups or not, one top NHL executive said recently.As in, take your shot, cast off parts that dont fit under the salary cap, and then make another run at it.This season is no different. It took some time because we had so many new players, Bowman acknowledged. Youre trying a bunch of new things.Not everything worked. Early on, the Blackhawks penalty kill was historically bad. Even though theyve shown more structure of late, they still rank dead last in the league in penalty-killing efficiency.?One former NHL coach told ESPN.com early in the season that he wondered if there would be enough offense in the revamped lineup to keep the Blackhawks competitive in what has historically been the most competitive division in hockey. The Blackhawks are tied for sixth in goals per game despite their shutout loss on Tuesday. That is also in spite of the fact that captain Jonathan Toews got off to a slow start, with no goals in his first eight games. Toews has picked up the pace of late while often playing alongside Kane.Now this team will find out even more about itself over the next 11 days and six games, as it makes its way through Western Canada and Southern California.One thing that Bowman looks forward to is the fact that his young players, like 20-year-old college star Nick Schmaltz and 20-year-old defenseman Gustav Forsling, will get their first chance to spend quality time with the rest of the veteran core that remains so much of the teams identity.Those vets -- 37-year-old veteran Marian Hossa has 15 points in 16 games, for instance -- have helped to deflect some of the attention that might otherwise be on these young players as they get their NHL feet under them.Now theyll get a chance to spend time together away from the rink and connect in a much more personal way -- something thats been difficult with veterans for the most part heading home to their families when the teams in Chicago.We want these guys to come together as teammates, Bowman said. Right now they dont know each other all that well.This road trip should change that, just as it might give us a clearer understanding of exactly what this Blackhawks team is capable of. ' ' '