BROSSARD, Que. — Juraj Slafkovsky stood stunned, with his voice tremoring and his eyes locked in a 1000-yard stare. “We just have to play better, and we will,” Slafkovsky kept saying after sobering losses to the Washington Capitals last April. His demeanour betrayed the confidence he wanted to portray following the first two games of …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Aleksander Barkov intends to play hockey sooner rather than later. The Florida captain, who missed the entirety of the Panthers’ season because of a major knee injury suffered 20 minutes into his first practice of training camp, plans to accept an invitation to play for his native Finland at the world …
The long, painful journey to the final game of this lost Toronto Maple Leafs season has come to an end. Now comes the truly difficult part — pinning down how exactly it all went off the rails, and finding a way to get the organization back on track. Thursday marked the first step in that process, …
With the final day of the NHL regular season here, all 16 playoff spots have now been locked up. All matchups in the Eastern Conference have been set, but some first-round opponents in the West are yet to be known due to the unresolved Pacific Division. The Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks …
Canadian swimmer Sydney Pickrem announced her retirement from competition Thursday after more than a decade with the national team. The 28-year-old competed at three Olympic Games and won a bronze medal in the women’s medley relay at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She won seven medals at long-course world championships and six at short-course worlds, …
DENVER — The bruise and redness under his right eye taught Jared Bednar an important lesson: Keep your hands out of your suit pockets while on the bench. The Colorado Avalanche coach is off the injured list and back with the team for the regular-season finale Thursday against Seattle after taking a puck to the …
NEW YORK — Former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones is expected to become the first person to plead guilty in a gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people, including reputed mobsters and other basketball figures. A change-of-plea hearing for Jones is scheduled for May 6 in Brooklyn federal court, according …
From 2012 through 2025, when the Sabres played a grand total of zero playoff games, the Bruins posted the second-most post-season victories (69) of any team in the NHL. But as any hockey fan in Western New York can tell you, not only is the drought over, but the Sabres have also won their division …
TORONTO — What Auston Matthews did not say is as important as what he did say. Upon conclusion of a season blessed with national triumph and cursed with local embarrassment, the captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs was offered multiple opportunities to assure the city’s fans that he was down for the long haul, that …
The start of the 2026 season hasn’t been ideal for the Toronto Blue Jays, but they might be getting some much-needed reinforcements in the near future. Injured slugger George Springer took to the visitor’s batting cage in Milwaukee for the first time since fracturing his big toe, per Sportsnet’s Arden Zwelling. Though Springer has yet …