TORONTO - Gavin McKenna found himself stapled to the bench last Thursday. The No. 1 overall pick at the 2026 NHL draft returned to the fray over the weekend - and was right back in the spotlight four nights later. McKenna scored the winner on a third-p...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Freddy Peralta rode his fastball to the American League Championship Series MVP award. Acquired by the Rays from the New York Mets before the trade deadline, Peralta turned around his season in Tampa Bay and he...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Yandy Díaz's bat backed up his boast, and the Tampa Bay Rays are headed to the World Series again. Díaz and Junior Caminero each hit a two-run homer, Freddy Peralta pitched 5 1/3 gritty innings and the Rays bea...

NEW YORK (AP) - Sean Durzi scored 78 seconds in, Dylan Garand made 29 saves, and the New York Rangers defeated the travel-weary Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Monday night to improve to 6-0-0 at home this fall. The Rangers did not pick up their sixth victory at ...

TORONTO - Gavin McKenna scored the winner on a third-period power play as the Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a three-game slide Monday with a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. Auston Matthews added a goal and two assists for Toronto (4-4-2). Sergei Bo...

VANCOUVER - Luke Schenn believes his Vancouver Canucks need to be "a heck of a lot better." The veteran defenceman's comments come after the NHL team sputtered through an early-season Eastern Conference road swing, going 0-5-1 and getting outscored 27-...

The former rugby coach for Pte. Hayden Lykkemark, one of four soldiers who died in a fire at CFB Wainwright on Saturday, says all of the teenager's team and his schoolmates thought of him as their best friend. Trevor Plater, who coached Lykkemark in hi...

Canadian alpine skier Valérie Grenier says she sustained a knee injury while training for the upcoming season and will require surgery. Grenier posted a photo of her using crutches on her Instagram account and said she was hurt two days ago while train...

TORONTO - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers enter the final week of the CFL regular season controlling their playoff fate. Winnipeg (8-9) faces the B.C. Lions (10-7) on Friday night needing a win to make the playoffs. Watching intently, though, will be the Cal...

BROSSARD - Phillip Danault knows how Chris Kreider must be feeling. Danault rejoined the Canadiens in a trade from the Los Angeles Kings last December and remembers initially feeling "overwhelmed" under coach Martin St. Louis, who introduced concepts a...

The Grand Slam of Curling's competition committee plans to meet this week to discuss an unusual finish at the Co-op Invitational that sent two Canadian teams into the playoffs and led to pointed words from an American rink left outside the cutline. Boo...

TORONTO - Head coach Mike Miller is keeping Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly's condition and playing status close to the vest. Kelly, 32, suffered a lower-body injury in Toronto's 40-39 loss to the Ottawa Redblacks on Friday night. The contest ...

TORONTO - Allen Graves stopped and shook every reporter's hand before he stepped into his post-practice media scrum on Monday. When he had answered all their questions, he shook everyone's hand again, thanking them for their time. It's rare for any pr...

CALGARY - Canada will ice a younger team at the women's world hockey championship than it did at the Olympic Games. Hockey Canada announced Monday its 25-player roster for the world championship Nov. 6-16 in Herning and Esbjerg, Denmark. The average ag...

LONDON (AP) - UEFA has given FIFA a Nov. 2 deadline to release documents relating to Gianni Infantino 's aborted attempts at a secretive investment plan for the World Cup and other governance issues. The latest move in a power struggle between the two ...

NEW YORK - Florida Panthers winger Brady Tkachuk, Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid and Minnesota Wild winger Kirill Kaprizov have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. Tkachuk became the third player in NHL history, and the first in 40 yea...

NYMBURK - Dominic Cozzolino had five goals and an assist as Canada defeated the World Selects 11-0 Monday at the International Para Hockey Cup. Cozzolino opened the scoring 1:40 into the game, but Canada broke the game open with four goals in the secon...

The first and only deaf NHL player says deaf Canadian athletes who wear the Maple Leaf internationally deserve equitable funding. Jim Kyte played almost 600 NHL games while wearing hearing aids that shorted out during games because of perspiration. He ...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed head coach Travis Green to a multi-year contract extension, the NHL club announced on Monday. The deal will run through the 2030-31 season. The 55-year-old Green was named the Senators' 14th head coach in franch...

PERTH - The Roaring Game could be heading to the desert this season. World Curling was in "advanced discussions" with the United Arab Emirates to host the 2027 world women's curling championship, an organization spokesman said Monday in an email. "Tho...

VANCOUVER - Charles Hamelin is Canada's most decorated short-track speedskater - and he believes those following in his grooves are primed to reach even higher highs. What sets the nation's next generation of speedskaters apart, said the six-time Olymp...

CALGARY - He had to wait 10 days, but goaltender Devin Cooley finally got a chance at redemption on Sunday and he made the most of it. Starting for the first time since he surrendered seven goals in a blowout loss to the Colorado Avalanche, Cooley made...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Kirill Kaprizov broke a second-period tie with his NHL-leading 10th goal, Jesper Wallstedt stopped 13 shots, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 on Sunday night. Danila Yurov also scored to help the Central ...

CALGARY - Morgan Frost scored once and set up Yegor Sharangovich's late game-winner as the Calgary Flames beat Carolina 3-2 on Sunday night, snapping the Hurricanes' seven-game winning streak. Matvei Gridin also scored for Calgary (2-6-0), which won fo...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Drew Rasmussen allowed one run over seven innings for his second post-season win, Tampa Bay's offence kept on constant pressure, and the Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 Sunday night to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven America...

OTTAWA - Delaney Baie Pridham and Florence Belzile both had two goals to lead Ottawa Rapid FC to a 5-2 come-from-behind win over Vancouver Rise FC in a Northern Super League game Sunday. Elise Bell scored the other goal for Ottawa (12-8-4, 40 points), ...

VICTORIA - Canada's Kerri Einarson defeated Korea's Kyeong-Ae Kim 6-3 on Sunday to capture the women's title at the GSOC Co-Op Invitational curling event. Einarson's team from Gimli, Man., opened the contest with singles in each of the first two ends. ...

TORONTO - Jorian Baucom had the game's lone goal to lead Calgary Wild FC to a 1-0 win over AFC Toronto in Northern Super League play Sunday. Baucom opened the scoring just five minutes into the contest for Calgary (5-13-6, 21 points), which remains six...