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Brad Gushue’s rink brings home second career Player’s Championship
Brad Gushue and his rink wrapped up the curling season at the top of the podium. That’s after Gushue knocked off Switzerland’s Joel Retornaz 7-6 in the final of the 2024 Princess Auto Player’s Championship on Sunday in Toronto, Ont. Gushue’s team ...
‘We were very unlucky not to get a point out of this’ – Wanderers lose 1-0 in season opener at Pacific FC
Patrice Gheisar has a glass half-full kind of approach to coaching. Despite his Halifax Wanderers dropping a 1-0 decision to Pacific FC in their 2024 Canadian Premier League season opener on Saturday, the second-year head coach found plenty of ...
These Caps are in seventh heaven: The St. John’s Junior Capitals win seventh junior hockey league title
Last year, the St. John’s Junior Capitals had to watch the CBN Junior Stars celebrate a St. John’s Junior Hockey League (SJJHL) championship on home ice. It was different this time around, however, as the Caps won the Taylor Cup as the league ...
Exile minor hockey action
For little novice hockey kids at just nine years of age, some of them could really motor on the blades as witnessed on Saturday afternoon, April 13th., in another battle of town versus the bay. It was hockey action in its finest between the Avalon ...
Jamie Randell announced as Team NL Chef de Mission for 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John's
After serving as part of the Team NL Chef squad for Canada Games events in 2022 and 2023, Jamie Randell will take the reins as Chef de Mission for the home team at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John’s. Randell is a six-time member of the Team ...
Missing a bone in her arm, Katie Pegg is a shot put champion, possible Paris Paralympian
Katie Pegg smiles at the face of adversity. Born without a radial bone in her right forearm, Pegg played eight years of football in her hometown of Scarborough, Ont., the lone girl among over 300 players in the minor program. She also threw shot put ...
Sidney Crosby hitting new career heights while making miracles for Penguins
Sometimes for Sidney Crosby, when it rains it pours. The Pittsburgh Penguins centre hit two major milestones and lifted his team to a monumental win all at once on Thursday night. The 36-year-old from Cole Harbour's overtime pass to Erik Karlsson on ...
‘Not on our watch’: How a community pulled together to make sure Bell Island Minor Hockey had a season
There was a point when Jackie Hunt didn’t think there was going to be any minor hockey on Bell Island this year. Early in the registration period, Bell Island Minor Hockey only had 15 children registered – a far cry from the 54 or so they had the ...
Justin Barron keen to show Canadiens management he belongs in NHL
It appeared defenceman Justin Barron was destined to complete the season playing for AHL Laval, but then Kaiden Guhle suffered a concussion and the Canadiens lost Arber Xhekaj to season-ending shoulder surgery . Just like that, Barron was back with ...
Beating the odds: How a promise to his dying grandmother led Marquis Collins to St. John's to play with the Newfoundland Rogues
When Marquis Collins was 10 years old, he made a promise to his grandmother. Before she died, a pre-teen Collins promised her he would make it to the NBA as a professional basketball player. One day, he told her, he’d wear a jersey with his name on ...