Among the teams that aren’t participating in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Winnipeg Jets would have to be right near the top of the list for most disappointed. The Jets captured the Presidents’ Trophy a year ago and expectations were sky high heading into 2025-26. And why wouldn’t they have been? Connor Hellebuyck was coming off a Hart Trophy …
TAMPA, Fla. — Four days ago, I was asked by Martin Lemay on his excellent French-language podcast Le Retour to identify areas in which the Montreal Canadiens are definitively better than the Tampa Bay Lightning, and I responded, “None.” Because the thing about this matchup is that one team has created a brand so consistent …
PITTSBURGH — The hostilities were renewed before the teams even took the ice. An hour before the puck dropped on Game 1 of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers’ first-round rivalry revival Saturday night, the fans started streaming into PPG Paints Arena, packing the stands with black-and-gold sweaters of every vintage. A few minutes in, a …
PHOENIX — Nathan Lukes has quietly grinded through the first three weeks of the season in more ways than one. So, when his pinch-hit single snuck through the right side Friday night to end an 0-for-23 slide, and the Toronto Blue Jays outfielder saw his teammates in the dugout happy for him as he reached …
It was an odd time for Brandon Ingram to fade into the background on offence. The Toronto Raptors‘ scoring leader was limited to just nine shots from the field — with only one in the second half — in the team’s 126-113 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal …
Now at the tail end of his 23rd season in the NBA, LeBron James has had no shortage of memorable moments. But according to the 41-year-old James, the “craziest” thing to happen in his legendary career occurred on Saturday night. With the Los Angeles Lakers hosting the Houston Rockets in Game 1 of the first …
Blue Jays lose to Diamondbacks, April 18
It’s not a good thing when this Toronto Blue Jays team is matching a mark from the 2012 edition of the squad. Yet that’s where the Blue Jays find themselves after losing 6-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday. That season, the Blue Jays finished 73-89 under manager John Farrell. Shortly after the 2012 season, …
NBA Playoffs Highlights (April 18)
LOS ANGELES — Luke Kennard scored a career playoff-high 27 points, LeBron James had 19 points and 13 assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers capitalized on Kevin Durant’s injury absence for a 107-98 victory over the Houston Rockets in the opener of their first-round playoff series on Saturday night. Deandre Ayton had 19 points …