MONTREAL - 
The Montreal Canadiens are playoff-bound again. Montreal clinched its spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs Sunday afternoon after the Detroit Red Wings fell 5-4 to the Minnesota Wild, making the Canadiens the first Canadian NHL team to secure a...

NEW YORK (AP) - Patrick Roy was fired as coach of the New York Islanders on Sunday, another late-season change in the NHL that comes with a team in the middle of a spring tailspin that has put their playoff chances in jeopardy. First-year general manag...

The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned relief pitcher Brendon Little to triple-A Buffalo among a number of moves made. Little has struggled to start the season, giving up 10 earned runs in just 3 2/3 innings along with three walks and 10 hits. The 29-yea...

EDMONTON - Betting on John Tortorella as a late-season replacement for head coach continues to pay off for the Vegas Golden Knights. Jack Eichel had three assists as the Golden Knights came away with a huge 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Satur...

VANCOUVER - Like he's done before this season, Linus Karlsson played a good game on a team that had another bad night. Playing in his 100th NHL game, the rangy Vancouver Canuck right-winger scored two goals in a 7-4 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Saturday...

The SJHL semifinals between the Battlefords North Stars and Yorkton Terriers will head back to the Battlefords tied up at 1-1 after the North Stars won 3-1 over the Terriers to steal home ice advantage in the series. Finlay Klippenstein had a pair of goals including the game winner for the North Stars, while Spencer Mi...

Saturday's Scoreboard NHL Montreal 4 New Jersey 3 (SO) Vegas 5 Edmonton 1 Minnesota 4 Ottawa 1 Calgary 5 Anaheim 3 Winnipeg 2 Columbus 1 Los Angeles 7 Toronto 6 (OT) Utah 7 Vancouver 4 N.Y. Rangers 4 Detroit 1 Colorado 2 Dallas 0 Tampa Bay 3 Boston 1 P...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Ryan Strome scored his 500th career point with a goal against his former team, Morgan Frost had two goals, and the Calgary Flames sent the Anaheim Ducks to their fifth consecutive loss with a 5-3 victory Saturday night. Joel Fara...

EDMONTON - Jack Eichel had three assists as the Vegas Golden Knights continued their strong play under new head coach John Tortorella, coming away with a 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. Brett Howden and Jeremy Lauzon each had a goal a...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps believe in one another, and the team proved Saturday why exactly that unwavering faith is warranted. After falling behind 2-1 just moments before halftime, the 'Caps rallied with a pair of stoppage-time goals for a ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Sarah Fillier scored late in regulation, Maja Nylén Persson added a shootout goal, and the New York Sirens beat the Seattle Torrent 2-1 on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. The announced crowd of 18,006 broke the record for atte...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Quinton Byfield scored 2:33 into overtime, Adrian Kempe had two goals and two assists, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-6 on Saturday night. Byfield finished off Artemi Panarin's pass for his sec...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Oliver Kapanen's decisive goal in the shootout gave the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils for their eighth straight win on Saturday. Kapanen scored on a wrist shot past Devils goalie Jake Allen in the fifth rou...

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Lauren Coughlin threatened for two days to run away with the Aramco Championship, but with hilly Shadow Creek living up to its reputation as course in which pars are good scores, she had to work hard for her two-shot lead g...

VANCOUVER - Clayton Keller scored three times, one a disputed goal on the power play and the last into an empty net with 53 seconds left, as the Utah Mammoth defeated the Vancouver Canucks 7-4 Saturday to win their third straight game. Dylan Guenther a...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Kyle Connor scored twice and the Winnipeg Jets overcame an early deficit to beat Columbus 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping their NHL playoff holes alive and sending the Blue Jackets to their sixth straight loss. Winnipeg moved to 78...

MIAMI (AP) - Don Garber remembers the earliest days of David Beckham's plans to bring Major League Soccer to Miami, the quest that started more than a dozen years ago. There were twists. There were turns. Eventually, there was Lionel Messi, too. But th...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Maybe the end for the Florida Panthers came when Brad Marchand was shut down for the season last month. Or maybe it was when Seth Jones broke his collarbone and wound up missing 26 games. Or, maybe it was 20 minutes into training c...

Robert MacIntyre made one birdie in six holes and was leading by two shots Saturday in the Texas Open when storms halted play for just over five hours until the PGA Tour decided to suspend the third round for the remainder of the day. That sets up a ma...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Luca Langoni scored early before notching his league-high fifth assist on defender Mamadou Fofana's first career Major League Soccer goal, and the New England Revolution beat CF Montreal 3-0 on Saturday. New England (2-3-0) has...

OGDEN, UTAH - Sweden's Niklas Edin claimed yet another men's world curling championship with a 9-6 win over Canada's Matt Dunstone on Saturday. The 40-year-old Edin extended the record for world titles to eight in his career. He's also skipped Sweden t...

MADRID (AP) - Barcelona came from behind away from home to beat 10-man Atletico Madrid 2-1 and take a big step toward winning La Liga after Real Madrid lost at Mallorca on Saturday. Robert Lewandowski scored the decider in the 87th minute...

CHICAGO (AP) - Munetaka Murakami hit a two-run homer and Colson Montgomery followed with a solo shot in Chicago's three-run sixth inning as the White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Saturday for their second straight victory. Murakami's 431-foot ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Kelly Pannek had two goals and two assists to pad her PWHL-leading points total and help the Minnesota Frost hold off the Vancouver Goldeneyes 6-5 on Saturday. The Frost ended a three-game losing streak and clinched a spot in the...

OTTAWA - After weeks of watching their blue line thin out with injuries, the Ottawa Senators got a key piece back as Jake Sanderson returned to the lineup Saturday. Sanderson missed 13 games with an upper-body injury suffered March 7. He was back Satu...

Second-tier Southampton caused a huge shock by beating Premier League leader Arsenal in the FA Cup quarterfinals on Saturday after Manchester City dispatched Liverpool 4-0 thanks to a hat trick by Erling Haaland. Fresh off losing the English League Cup...

TABER - A southern Alberta community that lost its only two ice rinks after a Zamboni explosion has been named the Kraft Hockeyville 2026 winner. Taber, Alta., was one of two finalists, along with Tumbler Ridge, B.C., vying for the prize this year, whi...

Bring on post-season hockey in Buffalo. The Sabres' playoff drought is finally over. Following an NHL-record 14 seasons of futility, during which the team finished no better than 19th in the league standings, the Sabres clinched a berth Saturday when t...