National Sports

Vancouver Canucks fire head coach Travis Green, hire Bruce Boudreau

VANCOUVER — The struggling Vancouver Canucks have dismissed head coach Travis Green and replaced him with Bruce Boudreau.

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Struggling Vancouver Canucks fire GM Jim Benning, head coach Travis Green

VANCOUVER — The beleaguered Vancouver Canucks have fired general manager Jim Benning.

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Blondin wins World Cup speedskating gold in mass start; Dubreuil wins bronze in 500

SALT LAKE CITY — Canada’s Ivanie Blondin captured gold in the women’s mass start Sunday at the speedskating World Cup.

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Winnipeg Jets double up Maple Leafs 6-3 in Blake Wheeler's 1,000th NHL game

WINNIPEG — Blake Wheeler celebrated his 1,000th NHL game with a pair of assists in a scrappy 6-3 victory for the Winnipeg Jets over the Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday, but he still wasn’t able to score his first goal of the season.

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Brier champion skip Bottcher weighs in on surprise split with vice-skip Moulding

Brendan Bottcher provided his reasoning Sunday for the lineup rupture within the Canadian men's curling champions that left Darren Moulding on the outs and had the sport's observers engrossed by the unexpected divorce just three months before the Tim

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O'Neil, Miñoso, Hodges, Kaat, Oliva, Fowler get baseball HOF

Buck O'Neil never uttered a single word of bitterness or regret about not being elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. Till the end, he urged those who loved and rooted for him to do the same.

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Kempe scores twice, L.A. Kings capitalize on McDavid game misconduct

EDMONTON — Sticking to the game plan was key, but having Connor McDavid exit the contest on a game misconduct didn’t hurt the Los Angeles Kings either.

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Siakam has 31 points to lift Raptors to 102-90 victory over Wizards

TORONTO — Defence has long been a cornerstone of the Toronto Raptors' success, but a solid defensive effort had been inexplicably missing of late.

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers hold off Saskatchewan Roughriders in CFL West final

WINNIPEG — A big game got the best out of Andrew Harris.

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Evans comes off bench to lead Tiger-Cats past Argonauts in East final

TORONTO — A perfect performance from Dane Evans earned the Hamilton Tiger-Cats a Grey Cup rematch.

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