Kerri Einarson says she’s found her confidence again after a challenging year of lineup changes and team injuries for the Gimli, Man. skip and her rink. “It’s definitely been challenging, that’s for sure. After last season, we were all pretty down. So we throughout the summer took the time off away from curling,” Einarson said…
New Ottawa Senators goalie Linus Ullmark has signed a four-year, $33-million contract extension on the eve of his debut with the team. The 31-year-old Swede was acquired from Boston in June for goaltender Joonas Korpisalo, forward Mark Kastelic and the 25th overall draft pick the Bruins later cashed in for forward Dean Letourneau. Ullmark won the Vezina Trophy as…
Jack Wallace scored 19 seconds into the overtime session to give the United States a 2-1 win over Canada at the IPH Cup para hockey tournament on Tuesday in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Declan Farmer left a drop pass for Wallace, who manoeuvred through the Canadian defence before beating netminder Corbin Watson. “There is a lesson…
Connor McDavid was hunched over on the bench. The Edmonton Oilers superstar captain had given everything in his team’s quest to hoist the Stanley Cup. A record-setting playoff performance. A first Conn Smythe Trophy as post-season MVP. And in that moment, the gut-wrenching realization it still wasn’t enough as the Florida Panthers celebrated their Game…
Scotland’s Bruce Mouat defeated Canada’s Brad Gushue 10-3 in the men’s final of the HearingLife Tour Challenge curling tournament on Sunday in Charlottetown. Mouat scored five points in the seventh end to make put the game out of reach, with Gushue’s rink conceding before the eighth and final end at the season-opening Grand Slam of…
Napheesa Collier scored 26 points and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Connecticut Sun 90-81 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five semifinal series Friday night. Game 4 is Sunday in Connecticut with the Lynx looking to advance to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2017. That season ended in the fourth of…
Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime are out of the Shanghai Masters after two rounds. Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., lost 6-3, 7-5 to Ben Shelton, who made the quarterfinals in Shanghailast year. Shelton struck 11 aces and never faced a break point in the 77-minute match. Shapovalov mustered only 11 winners and finished with five…
Hockey Canada will hold a Beyond The Boards summit in Ottawa in November to analyze gender-based violence, homophobia, sexism and transphobia in the game. It’s Hockey Canada’s second summit after last year’s in Calgary, where toxic masculinity in elite men’s hockey was under the microscope. Calls for culture change in hockey arose after allegations of…
Canada coach Jesse Marsch continues to give youth its due, handing Jamie Knight-Lebel, Santiago Lopez and Kwasi Poku their first senior call-ups for the October international window. The Canadian men, currently ranked 38th in the world, face No. 37 Panama on Oct. 15 at Toronto’s BMO Field in their first outing since their fourth-place finish…
Professional Women’s Hockey League camps starting Nov. 12 will include mini camps for all six teams in Toronto and Montreal. The Montreal Victoire, Boston Fleet and Ottawa Charge will assemble at Montreal’s Verdun Auditorium and Toronto Sceptres, Minnesota Frost and New York Sirens at Toronto’s Ford Performance Centre for training sessions and pre-season scrimmages Nov….
