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Goaltender Colton Point will start in net for Canada against Slovakia on Wednesday at the world junior hockey championship. The six-foot-three, 220-pound Point was a fifth-round draft pick of the Dallas Stars in 2016. He has a 1.90 goals-against average with a .938 save percentage in 16 games played for the NCAA’s Colgate University this […]
Canada will go with a mostly veteran team when it attempts to win a fifth straight gold medal in women’s hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in February. One day after the United States cut two veterans in Alex Carpenter and Megan Bozek, Canada announced Friday its roster will have […]
Canada’s Steve Nash leads the 2018 list of eligible nominees for the Basketball Hall of Fame. The two-time NBA MVP could become just the second Canadian-born player in the Hall, joining Vancouver-born Bob Houbreg, who was inducted in 1987. Nash, 43, is an eight-time all-star who won back-to-back MVP awards in 2005 and 2006 while with the Phoenix Suns. He also played for the Dallas […]
It’s been a little more than a week since the epic celebrations, tears and heart-stopping shots that propelled Rachel Homan, Kevin Koe and their respective teammates to the Olympics. Four years of sacrifice and work paid off. So what’s the first thing many of them did after it was over? They left the icy rink […]
Erik Guay says he has an annular rupture at his L4 verterbra after undergoing an MRI in Innsbruck on Sunday. Guay was competing at the alpine World Cup event in Val Gardena, Italy, but told CBC Sports after that he “should have stayed at home” to deal with ongoing back issues. Homeward bound! Had an MRI yesterday in Innsbruck. I have a rupture […]
In a career of many memorable games in Canada’s net, Shannon Szabados believes Sunday’s 2-1 overtime win over the United States will end up ranking high on her list. The 31-year-old made 34 saves in her hometown for the national women’s hockey team. Jennifer Wakefield scored the winner with 27 seconds remaining in overtime. Szabados […]
There’s no shortage of motivation for Taylor Raddysh and his teammates heading into this year’s IIHF world junior hockey championships. In a hockey-mad nation where the expectation is almost always championship or bust, last year’s silver medal didn’t sit well with team Canada or its fans as the United States delivered a heartbreaking 5-4 shootout […]
Canada’s Cassie Sharpe won gold in women’s halfpipe skiing at the Dew Tour on Friday after amassing a big score on her second run that her competitors couldn’t touch. The skier from Comox, B.C., laid down a clean run of 93.66 points in the second round, giving her a victory in the event and valuable […]
Canadians Elisabeth Vathje and Mirela Rahneva both came away with medals at the World Cup skeleton race in Innsbruck, Austria, on Friday. Elena Nikitina of Russia won the event with a time of one minute 48.80 seconds. Elisabeth Vathje earns 3rd skeleton World Cup silver medal of the season2:07 Calgary’s Vathje claimed her third silver of the season […]
He wouldn’t quite describe it this way, but you might say Jeff Stoughton has become a curling Cupid. As part of his duties in leading Canada’s mixed doubles program into the Winter Olympics, the three-time Brier and two-time world champion has been busy facilitating some last-minute match making. The tournament to determine which pairing will […]
