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MONTREAL - With Andrei Markov nursing an upper-body injury and Shea Weber in a scoring slump, the Montreal Canadiens needed a defenceman to step up. It turned out to be Jeff Petry, who scored a g...
News Dec 20, 2016
TORONTO - While the Raptors were busy running roughshod over the Brooklyn Nets during the fourth quarter Tuesday night, Toronto’s top scorer DeMar DeRozan rested elbows-on-knees on the...
News Dec 20, 2016
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Buffalo Sabres are sending top prospect Alexander Nylander to play for Sweden in the world junior hockey championships next week. The Sabres selected Nylander with the eighth overa...
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BOSTON - A man who survived a deadly 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston identified former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez in court on Tuesday as the one who pulled the trigger. The judge presi...
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OTTAWA - Thomas Chabot is hopeful this visit to Canadian Tire Centre will go much better than his last one. The 19-year-old will get a chance to impress the Ottawa Senators, his future employers,...
News Dec 20, 2016
PITTSBURGH - The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for setting fire to her rental residence and then filing fraudulent insur...
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TORONTO - Once again, Sylvain Filion is a finalist for the O’Brien Award as Canada’s top harness-racing driver. The Milton, Ont., resident won the award in 2012, ’14 and 2015 and is ...
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TORONTO - When he was still the head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, Mike Babcock often watched Wings prospect Dylan Larkin play at the University of Michigan. He’d always come aw...
News Dec 20, 2016
Family has helped ease P.K. Sam II’s pain, but not his anger towards Nick Saban. Sam’s father died father died Dec. 14, 2006 at age 49 just over a month after bein...
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MONTREAL - Joey Abrams stepped down Tuesday as the Montreal Alouettes assistant general manager. Abrams spent 12 seasons with the Alouettes, the last year as assistant to former GM Jim Popp. Abrams...
News Dec 20, 2016