VANCOUVER - Elias Pettersson is feeling good - and that's good news for the Vancouver Canucks. The Swedish centre scored his 15th goal of the season and contributed an assist Saturday, helping the Canucks trounce the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2. Pettersson now has four goals in his last five games. "Yeah, can you belie...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Alex Ovechkin scored his 887th career goal Saturday to move within eight of breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record and the Washington Capitals beat the San Jose Sharks 5-1. Ovechkin deflected a shot from Martin Fehervary past Georgi Romanov with 9:06 remaining in the third period. Romanov is the NH...

VANCOUVER - Elias Pettersson scored and notched an assist as the Vancouver Canucks thumped the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 on Saturday. Conor Garland and Pius Suter also contributed a goal and a helper apiece for the Canucks (31-24-11), while Quinn Hughes and Tyler Myers also scored. Kiefer Sherwood, Teddy Blueger and Nils ...

MONTREAL - Martin St. Louis watched the crowd erupt around the Bell Centre. The Montreal Canadiens head coach hoped it would be one of several special moments for his group this spring. Montreal fans did the wave for nearly 10 minutes in the third period - including an entire TV timeout - and chanted "Olé, ...

TORONTO - Linus Ullmark went out to play the puck midway through Saturday's second period. The Senators goaltender - his team's best player on many nights - was flat on his stomach seconds later following a brutal gaffe that ended with Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews firing into an empty cage. An organization that'...

FRISCO, Texas (AP) - Tristan Blackmon scored a goal in the 51st minute and Vancouver didn't allow a shot on goal as the Whitecaps beat FC Dallas 1-0 on Saturday night for their fourth win in a row. Vancouver (4-0-0) is just the seventh team in Major League Soccer history to win each of its first four regular-season gam...

TORONTO - Claude Giroux scored the winner on a second-period power play as the Ottawa Senators topped the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 to register their sixth straight victory Saturday night. Jake Sanderson, David Perron and Michael Amadio, into the empty net, had the other goals for Ottawa (36-25-5). Linus Ullmark made 20 ...

MONTREAL - Cole Caufield scored his team-leading 33rd goal and added an assist to help the Montreal Canadiens beat the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Saturday. Patrik Laine and Christian Dvorak - with his 100th career goal - also scored for Montreal (32-27-7), while Sam Montembeault made 21 saves, including a windmill glove s...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Jonathan Sirois finished with seven saves for CF Montreal and Kim Joon Hong stopped three shots for D.C. United in a scoreless Major League Soccer match at Audi Field on Saturday night. Sirois had four saves in the first half for Montreal (0-3-1) and a couple of point-blank ones in the second to help ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - J.J. Spaun only had to look at the video boards around the TPC Sawgrass to appreciate the chaos going around him Saturday in The Players Championship. Will Zalatoris was tied for the lead and then his name was gone after an astonishing stretch of 9-over par on the last five holes. Lucas G...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Alex Ovechkin shook off a rough start to this three-game California swing by scoring his 887th career goal Saturday against the San Jose Sharks to move within eight of breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record. Ovechkin had failed to score a goal in the first two games of the trip and had no shots on ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - J.J. Spaun watched his 25-foot putt swirl 360 degrees around the cup and drop for par, a fitting end to a wild, windy, round-wrecking Saturday at The Players Championship that gave him a one-shot lead going into the final round of the richest tournament in golf. The par gave Spaun a 2-und...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Alex Ovechkin scored his 887th career goal Saturday against the San Jose Sharks to move within eight of breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record. Ovechkin deflected a shot from Martin Fehervary past Georgi Romanov with 9:06 remaining in the third period. Romanov is the NHL-record 182nd goalie that Ov...

OTTAWA - Injuries are part of the game but nothing can prepare a team for losing a top goaltender as it looks to make a push for the playoffs. Such is life for the Ottawa Charge in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Backup netminder Gwyneth Philips stopped 24 of 27 shots in a 5-2 loss to Boston on Saturday. The Fl...

PARIS (AP) - France saw off a resilient Scotland 35-16 and clinched the Six Nations title with a tournament-try record on Saturday. Coach Fabien Galthié's side needed only a victory at chilly Stade de France to ensure a first title since 2022. The bonus-point win helped Les Tricolores finish one point above Engl...

OTTAWA - Fleet captain Hilary Knight had a goal and two assists to help Boston to a 5-2 win over the Ottawa Charge in Professional Women's Hockey League action on Saturday. After assisting on the opening goal by Alina Muller in the first period, Knight scored on a breakaway at 12:10 of the third period. Jill Saulnier i...

TORONTO - Goals by Andrew Gutman and Hugo Cuypers lifted the Chicago Fire to a 2-1 comeback win over Toronto FC on Saturday, spoiling TFC's home opener and leaving Robin Fraser's team winless four games into the MLS season. Toronto (0-3-1) looked positive early and went ahead in the 11th minute via Deandre Kerr, only t...

JUPITER - Blue Jays starter Bowden Francis gave up three earned runs over 3 2/3 innings in Toronto's 9-5 pre-season loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday. Francis, a favourite to land the fifth spot in Toronto's starting rotation, allowed seven hits and had five strikeouts. The Cardinals (9-11) outhit the Blue Ja...

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, Ont. - Reece Howden and Kevin Drury returned to the podium Saturday on a four-medal day for Canada at a ski cross World Cup at Craigleith Ski Club. Howden, from Cultus Lake, B.C., finished second behind Germany's Florian Wilmsmann after taking gold a day earlier. Drury, from Toronto, took his second...

KANANASKIS, Alta. - A woman has died after an avalanche in the backcountry west of Calgary. RCMP say four people were out skiing near Mount Black Prince in Kananaskis Country on Friday afternoon when an avalanche hit. The avalanche carried a 34-year-old woman away and buried her in the snow. RCMP say an alert beacon si...

BEIJING - Canadian speedskaters won three gold medals and one silver on Saturday at the ISU world short-track championship. Steven Dubois took top spot in the men's 500 metres and William Dandjinou finished first in the men's 1,500. Courtney Sarault earned silver in the women's 1,000 and helped the Canadian relay team ...

WINDHOEK - Namibia rallied for a dramatic comeback to defeat Canada by 12 runs in ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 play Saturday. The one-day international featured several shifts in momentum as Canada, its inning halted temporarily by rain, chased a reduced victory target of 167 in 43 overs according to the Duckwo...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - McLaren locked up the front row in Melbourne for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, having dominated its rivals, including Red Bull, Mercedes, and Ferrari - whose drivers, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, will start from seventh and eighth on the grid. Lando Norris set a searing final qualif...

HAFJELL, Norway (AP) - Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt didn't win the race, but he did earn two crystal globes and set a national record in Alpine skiing on Saturday. Odermatt finished second behind teammate Loic Meillard in a World Cup giant slalom to formally lock up his fourth straight overall and GS titles. The only ...

UIJEONGBU-SI - The Canadian team skipped by Rachel Homan split its first two games Saturday at the LGT world women's curling championship. Homan, from Ottawa, opened round-robin play with a 13-2 rout of Lithuania's Virginija Paulauskaite before dropping an 8-7 decision to Scotland's Sophie Jackson. In the 10th end of t...

NANAIMO - The local Special Olympic basketball players are making their mark in B.C. sports, with their hard work and dedication paying off with an impressive tournament victory recently.For the first time, ten players and four coaches from the Nanaimo Timberwolves participated in the North Shore March Madness tenth an...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) - Francesco Friedrich won every championship he could in bobsledding this season. The German great is now a world champion for the 16th time, capping off his seventh four-man world title on Saturday at Mount Van Hoevenberg on the final day of the international bobsled season. This is the sixth ti...

HAFJELL, Norway (AP) - Marco Odermatt finished second behind Swiss teammate Loic Meillard in a World Cup giant slalom Saturday to formally lock up his fourth straight overall and GS titles. The only remaining challenger for the overall title, Henrik Kristoffersen, needed to finish the race well ahead of Odermatt to kee...