Good news, Kings fans: No longer must you dread yet another first-round series against the Edmonton Oilers. Four straight first-round meetings against McDavid & Co., resulting in four straight early exits, had L.A. stuck in an all-too-familiar nightmare. Now, for the bad news: The Kings get Colorado, instead. It’s the matchup nobody wanted — and for …
Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters Friday in Phoenix that Yesavage will make another rehab start on Tuesday with triple-A Buffalo and that Berríos will pitch again for single-A Dunedin on Wednesday. Yesavage pitched for Buffalo on Wednesday, striking out five over 4.1 innings of three-run ball. He allowed two home runs and seven …
Aliyah Boston has signed the richest total contract in WNBA history. Boston is set to make $1 million in 2026 and then 20 per cent of the cap through to 2029. She was eligible to sign for $1.19 million, the standard max deal amount this season, but chose to accept less money to give the …
OTTAWA — In a series with two evenly matched teams, one player can make the difference. Kleven’s been out for two weeks after taking a puck to the face (it’s suspected he broke his jaw). The rugged defenceman hadn’t skated with Ottawa since then, but did on Friday. He’d become a pivotal part of why …
Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., fell 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (6) to top seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in a quarterfinal Friday at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. Rybakina improved to 3-2 against the Canadian in a match that lasted three hours. The final-set tiebreak was tied six times before Rybakina won the last two …
Their franchise mythology was baptised in it, if you want to look at it that way. The Raptors were just two years removed from a 16-66 disaster in 1997-98 when Vince Carter lifted Toronto to a 45-win season — the first winning season the Raptors had known to that point — and a playoff date …
CALGARY – It took just over two minutes into his season-ending presser for Craig Conroy to utter the words some fans have been waiting over a decade to hear. “It is about the long term,” said Conroy when asked several different ways about the approach he’ll take this summer. “It’s not about getting into the …
Round 1 Previews: West (April 17)
The Winnipeg Jets‘ superstar goaltender didn’t mince words when assessing his team’s season on Friday. Three-time Vezina winner Connor Hellebuyck was candid in his disappointment with Winnipeg’s poor play at its season-end media availability. “What we did was unacceptable, and no one wants to be a part of that,” Hellebuyck said. “This year, it was …
EDMONTON — “We have this little red box of things. Uh… It’s going to sound corny…” Todd McLellan was taking his 2016-17 Edmonton Oilers into the playoffs for the first time after 10 long years of missing the big dance. The Decade of Darkness was over in Edmonton. Connor McDavid had arrived, with his first 100-point …