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Canada will have just two players returning to defend its gold medal from the 2018 world junior hockey championship. Forwards Alex Formenton and Maxime Comtois, both 19, are among the 34 players chosen by Hockey Canada that will attend selection camp ahead of the 2019 world junior championship that begins on Boxing Day. The majority […]
Kia Nurse remembers when being a Canadian basketball player meant flying under the radar. The Hamilton, Ont., native arrived at the University of Connecticut in 2014 without the fanfare that many top recruits receive. Although Nurse was ranked 33rd in ESPN's class of prospects that year, she believed it was only because she was attending […]
After hearing swirlings that the IBM Watson-powered voice recognition features for Star Trek: Bridge Crew would be deactivated, we reached out to Ubisoft for confirmation. As a result, it looks like that isn’t the case after all. “Star Trek has always been about pushing technology forward, so in that spirit we are happy to be continuing our partner…Read More
Russian para athletes who participated as neutrals at the 2018 PyeongChang Paralympics have finished second in the Games’ medal standings, winning a total of 24. Read more The main contribution to the squad’s medal haul was made by the two skiers, Anna Milenina and Ekaterina Rumyantseva, who took 5 Paralympic medals each, including five golds […]
‘There are some tremendous stories here, guys who have had adversity through some phase of their careers,’ says Team Canada general manager When general manager Sean Burke delivered his 25-player Canadian men’s Olympic team on Thursday there wasn’t the sort of scrutiny that Steve Yzerman or Wayne Gretzky or Bobby Clarke endured while they put […]
After the Canadian national team celebrated its third Spengler Cup championship in a row on Sunday, general manager Sean Burke confessed he has filled 20 of his 25 roster spots for the Olympic team. The Spengler Cup was the fifth and final tournament for the men’s Canadian Olympic auditions. It ended with an impressive 3-0 […]
While the Canadian men’s Olympic team has utilized the 2017 Spengler Cup to audition four youngsters currently playing at the college level in the U.S., it has been a handful of veterans who have distinguished themselves through the first two games in Davos, Switzerland. The Spengler Cup is the last of a five-tournament tryout for […]
Getty Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison signed with the New England Patriots on Tuesday. The Patriots have made a habit of finding veterans who have a bit left in the tank to fill out their depth. Harrison spent 14 seasons with the Steelers, but now joins their AFC rivals, setting up a potential must-see […]
There are so many players at Hockey Canada’s world junior championship selection camp that the ice was completely torn up after just one practice, with pucks bouncing over sticks and snow piling up against the goals. Head coach Dominique Ducharme put 32 of his charges through two practices on Tuesday, rotating through four goalies and […]
Canada’s Olympic men’s hockey team will give 10 new players a look at the Channel One Cup in Moscow in two weeks from the team that competed in the Karjala Cup in Helsinki earlier this month. Among the 25 players (two goalies, nine defencemen and 14 forwards) general manager Sean Burke and the coaching staff have invited to […]
