LAS VEGAS (AP) - Mark Stone scored his fourth goal in three games and combined with Jack Eichel for seven points as the Golden Knights defeated the Winnipeg Jets 6-2 on Monday night to move Vegas closer to winning a fifth Pacific Division title in its ...

EDMONTON - Nathan MacKinnon scored the shootout winner as the Colorado Avalanche came away with a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday. Sam Malinski scored in regulation for the league-leading Avalanche (53-16-11), who have won three of their...

MONTREAL - A first-round NHL playoff matchup between the Montreal Canadiens and the Tampa Bay Lightning is officially set after the Buffalo Sabres clinched first place in the Atlantic Division on Monday. Home-ice advantage, however, remains undecided w...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Tyson Foerster scored the only goal in the shootout to send the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-2 win over the Eastern Conference top seed Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night and into the playoffs for the first time since 2020. Flyerss g...

TORONTO - Mavrik Bourque registered his first NHL hat trick and added an assist as the Dallas Stars came back from 3-0 and 5-3 deficits to top the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 on Monday. Jason Robertson scored and set up another for playoff-bound Dallas (49...

NEW YORK - Kiki Rice is the Toronto Tempo's first-ever WNBA draft pick. The Tempo chose the UCLA guard sixth overall in the first round Monday, then made three other selections to further shape their roster 10 days after the expansion draft. "Tonight w...

MUNICH - Montreal's Gabriel Diallo cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 first-round win over Ukrainian qualifier Vitaliy Sachko on Monday at the BMW-Open tennis tournament. The Canadian scored two of his four breaks early in the second set to go up 4-0 before locking...

NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors forward Brandon Ingram has been named the NBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Ingram averaged a team-high 25.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, one steal and 33.3 minutes as Toronto went 3-1 last week. He shot .57...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors will return to the NBA playoffs when they open their best-of-seven first-round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday. It's the first time Toronto has been in the playoffs since the 2021-22 season when they los...

TORONTO - Entering his sophomore NBA season, Jamal Shead knew there was one statistical category he wanted to lead the league in: games played. He got there Sunday, appearing in his 82nd game of the Toronto Raptors' season - one of just 18 players in t...

MONTREAL - CF Montréal executive Luca Saputo says he didn't want to make a rash decision when it came to the dismissal of Marco Donadel as the club spoke for the first time since the unusual sequence of events that led to the head coach's firing. The c...

TORONTO - Toronto Raptors guard Immanuel Quickley is out day-to-day with a mild right hamstring strain, the NBA club announced Monday. The Raptors said Quickley underwent medical imaging a day after Toronto's playoff-clinching 136-101 win over the vis...

For a third consecutive year, there is no clear choice for the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP, and again the debate over the importance of "valuable" comes into play. Edmonton's Connor McDavid is on track to win the scoring race for the most points and the Art...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Jonathan Quick says Monday night's game was his last in the NHL, meaning the 40-year-old is retiring to end a career that spanned nearly two decades and included a stretch in which he was one of the best goaltenders of his generati...

NEW YORK - Los Angeles Kings goaltender Anton Forsberg, Ottawa Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark and Detroit Red Wings centre Dylan Larkin have been named the NHL's three stars of the week. Forsberg went 3-0-0 with 0.97 goals-against average, .964 save...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have placed right-handed pitcher Shane Bieber on the 60-day injured list. The move announced Monday means Bieber must stay inactive 60 days from his initial injured list placement. Toronto put him on the 15-day IL on Mar...

CALGARY - Former Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving and Pittsburgh Penguins assistant GM Jason Spezza will lead Canada's management team at the 2026 world hockey championship, Hockey Canada announced Monday. Penguins GM Kyle Dubas will ...

STUTTGART - Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and partner Fanny Stolarz of Hungary advanced to the doubles quarterfinals at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix with a 6-3, 6-2 win Monday over the Chinese duo of Jiang Xinyu and Xu Yifan. Fernandez and Stolarz ...

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers hired Lee Hull as their receivers coach Monday. Hull was a receiver with Winnipeg from 1990-92 and had a TD grab in the club's 50-11 win over Edmonton in the 1990 Grey Cup game. He rejoins the CFL club with a coach...

ROME (AP) - Sure, Jannik Sinner is pleased to have the No. 1 ranking back. His biggest takeaways from a victory over Carlos Alcaraz in the Monte Carlo Masters final, though, were finally winning a big clay-court title and doing it by beating his bigges...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The governing body for international swimming and aquatic sports will allow athletes from Russia to compete without restrictions and with their national flag and anthem. World Aquatics said Monday it will remo...

Jalen Philpot is coming around to the CFL's plan to move goalposts backwards next season. Last September, CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston unveiled the league's two-part plan to improve its game and make it more entertaining for fans. The most controv...

CALGARY - The thundering ovation MacKenzie Weegar received Sunday night in his return to Calgary came as no surprise. He was one of the club's most popular players during his four seasons with the Flames. The only surprise was that it came in a 4-1 los...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Logan Thompson stopped 24 shots, and the Washington Capitals kept their slim playoff hopes alive by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 Sunday in perhaps the final home of Alex Ovechkin's brilliant career. To reach the postseason, the...

CALGARY - Brayden Pachal had a goal and two assists on Sunday night as the Calgary Flames' hot streak at home continued with a 4-1 victory over the Utah Mammoth. Matt Coronato, Connor Zary and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary (33-38-9), which is...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Marco Rossi scored with 9.5 seconds left in overtime to help the Vancouver Canucks beat Anaheim 4-3 on Sunday night and prevent the Ducks from clinching a playoff spot. Anaheim has 90 points and can secure a playoff spot with a ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Nico Hischier scored his second goal of the game on the power play with 1:45 left in overtime to give the New Jersey Devils a 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday night. The Devils trailed 3-2 after two periods, but Dawson Mer...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Rory McIlroy is the Masters champion again, this time without falling to his knees on the 18th green and sobbing over finally achieving his lifelong dream. That didn't make Sunday at Augusta National any easier. McIlroy coughed up a...