Local Sports
Southern Shore Puglisevich Breakers headed to 2024 Allan Cup
The Southern Shore Puglisevich Senior Breakers will be representing Newfoundland and Labrador in the 116th Allan Cup in Dundas, Ont. this April. Canada’s oldest hockey championship, the tournament crowns the best senior hockey team in Canada, an ...
Halifax’s Hanratty will leave Rugby Canada following Paris Olympics to join University of Ottawa program
Halifax’s Jack Hanratty will begin a new chapter in his rugby coaching career following this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. Hanratty, head coach of Canada’s women’s sevens Team, will leave Rugby Canada following the Olympics to become the head ...
‘This has been the best year’: With spring around the corner, icemakers reflect on strong outdoor rink season
The outdoor rink season is quickly ending in Newfoundland and Labrador. With better weather on the horizon, the days of flooding and smoothing the ice are moving into the past. Even last week’s massive snowstorm did little to improve conditions once ...
Newfoundland Rogues welcome Albany Patroons to St. John's for three-game set
The Newfoundland Rogues and Albany, N.Y., Patroons meet Wednesday night in the first of three games at Mary Brown’s Centre in St. John’s. The games are the teams’ first meeting this season in The Basketball League and a rematch of last year’s Eastern ...
Mount Pearl’s Zach Dean gets his call to the St. Louis Blues and the NHL
Zach Dean got the call he’s been waiting his entire life for on Monday and he missed it. The Mount Pearl native was asleep when Springfield Thunderbirds general manager Kevin Maxwell called to inform Dean that he had to head to Boston that ...
St. F.X. looks to bounce back at U Sports women's hockey championship
The St. Francis Xavier X-Women get a second chance at this week’s GFL U Sports women’s hockey championship in Saskatoon. A week ago, the X-Women lost a heartbreaker, a 2-1 double-overtime setback to the UNB Reds in Game 2 of the best-of-three ...
For the love of the game: Many from our region head south to take in Major League Baseball spring training
Juanita Rossiter Special to SaltWire Spring training is underway, and plenty of Atlantic Canadians love to head south to take in some of the baseball action. A devoted Blue Jays fan, 14-year-old Ben Kent of Mount Pearl, N.L. is one such individual.
Inspire and support: As many girls leave sports, coaches and organizers urge them to ‘keep going’
Paul Pickrem Special to SaltWire When teams from Toronto and New York took to the ice on January 1st in Toronto for the first game of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL), nearly three million viewers across Canada tuned ...
Lewin-LaFrance sailing sisters of Chester qualify for Paris Olympics in 49er FX
Forget Paris in April. How about Paris in August? Chester sailing sisters Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance will get to experience the City of Light in the middle of summer after they qualified to be nominated for the 2024 Olympic Games in the 49er ...
With his sixth Brier title on Sunday, N.L.'s Brad Gushue ties the record for most all-time
Brad Gushue is in his Michael Jordan era. On March 10, Gushue and his rink won their sixth Brier championship as Canada’s top men’s curling team. The victory over Saskatchewan’s Mike McEwen put Gushue into a tie with Randy Ferbey for the most Brier ...