Over the course of a rambunctious Hall of Fame career, Chris Pronger has always managed to push the limits. Not only is he a Stanley Cup champion, a double Olympic gold medallist, and Hart and Norris Trophy winner, he’s also been suspended eight times and had his heart stopped by a puck. He also worked …
Hughes will undergo a procedure and get a head start on rehab for the off-season. The Devils have four games remaining on their schedule and have already been eliminated from playoff contention. Hughes, the younger brother of Jack and Quinn, will finish the season with six goals and 29 assists over 68 games. In October, …
Philadelphia, which has won nine of 12 (9-3-0), looked dead in the water after losing 12 of 15 (3-8-4) entering the Olympic break. But now the Flyers are just four points back of the archrival Pittsburgh Penguins for second place in the Metropolitan Division, with each team having four games left. By going 15-6-1 since …
Just 17 days after suffering a broken arm, defenceman Thomas Chabot will make his return to the lineup for Thursday’s game against the Florida Panthers, the team confirmed. Ottawa head coach Travis Green said that Cameron Crotty will come out of the lineup with Chabot healthy. The Senators said Chabot would miss four to eight …
Canadian fighter Jamie Siraj has finally made it to the UFC. The featherweight has been added to the upcoming UFC Fight Night event in Winnipeg, where he will face American John Yannis in a 145-pound preliminary matchup. The UFC officially announced Siraj’s addition to the card Thursday morning. The 31-year-old is from Lower Mainland in …
MILTON KEYNES, England — Max Verstappen’s race engineer and close ally GianPiero Lambiase is set to leave the Red Bull team in 2028 and will join Formula 1 rival McLaren as its chief racing officer. Red Bull said Lambiase, who is also Red Bull’s head of racing, will leave when his current contract expires. “’GP’ is a …
Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to a hot start in his first clay-court tournament of the season. Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Monte-Carlo Masters with a win over ninth-seeded Casper Ruud in the Round of 16 on Thursday. The Canadian won the first set 7-5 before Ruud retired at 2-2 in the second …
Since its dominant Jon Jones era, which stretched the better part of a decade until the ever-controversial star vacated his belt in 2020 to pursue the heavyweight title, the UFC’s light-heavyweight division has been in perpetual flux. Following Jones’s departure, the belt bounced from Jan Blachowicz to Glover Teixeira to Jiri Prochazka over the span …
Bianca Andreescu and Kayla Cross will handle singles for Canada in Billie Jean King Cup tennis qualifying against host Kazakhstan on Friday. Canada will be without its highest-ranked player after Victoria Mboko, the world No. 9, withdrew from the competition last month. Cross, ranked No. 198 in the world, opens against No. 74 Yulia Putintseva …
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s average salary rose 3.4 per cent on opening day to a record $5.34 million, according to a study by The Associated Press, and the New York Mets topped spending at the season’s start for the fourth straight year. Mets outfielder Juan Soto is the highest-paid player for the second consecutive season …