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Brad Gushue and his rink won the 2024 Princess Auto Player’s Championship after beating Joel Retornaz in the tournament final on Sunday. The win wraps up the season for Gushue. Photo courtesy Grand Slam of Curling/Twitter

Brad Gushue’s rink brings home second career Player’s Championship

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 14, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

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 ...

Pacific FC keeper Emil Gazdov makes a save in front of Halifax Wanderers forward Ryan Telfer during the Canadian Premier League season opener Saturday afternoon in Langford, B.C. Pacific won the match 1-0. - CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

‘We were very unlucky not to get a point out of this’ – Wanderers lose 1-0 in season opener at Pacific FC

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 14, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

The St. John’s Junior Capitals are 2024 Taylor Cup champions after knocking off the defending champion CBN Junior Stars 4-1 in their best-of-seven championship series. The Caps clinched the trophy with a 3-2 win in Game 5 of the series on Apr. 13 at the Twin Rinks in St. John’s. The team will now represent the province at the upcoming Don Johnson Memorial Cup being held in Mount Pearl. Photo courtesy Jeff Parsons

These Caps are in seventh heaven: The St. John’s Junior Capitals win seventh junior hockey league title

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 14, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

Nate Bartlett of the Bay Arena Rovers carries the puck down the ice as he is pursued by players on the Avalon Celtics in third-period action of their game in the 2024 Exile Under-9 invitational novice hockey tournament at the D.F. Barnes Arena on Saturday afternoon won 6-1 by the Rovers. -Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram

Exile minor hockey action

Joe Gibbons |Updated Apr. 13, 2024 |12 min read Premium content

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 ...

Newfoundland and Labrador Canada Summer Games Chef de Mission Gary Martin (left) will meet the first contingent of athletes from this province in Ontario ahead of the start of the 2022 Canada Summer Games. Martin is shown here with assistant chefs Tom Godden (right) and Jamie Randell. Team NL/Twitter

Jamie Randell announced as Team NL Chef de Mission for 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John's

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

Katie Pegg, who was born without a radial bone in her right forearm, throws shot put for Saint Mary's at the Atlantic university track and field championships in Moncton in February. Pegg returned to the sport this year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. - SMU ATHLETICS

Missing a bone in her arm, Katie Pegg is a shot put champion, possible Paris Paralympian

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |9 min read Premium content

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 ...

Pittsburgh Penguins centre Sidney Crosby holds the puck from his 1,000th career assist. - Pittsburgh Penguins

Sidney Crosby hitting new career heights while making miracles for Penguins

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

The Bell Island Miners under-15 team won their provincial tournament last week in Baie Verte. Contributed photo

‘Not on our watch’: How a community pulled together to make sure Bell Island Minor Hockey had a season

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

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 ...

Defenceman Justin Barron scored for the Montreal Canadiens in their 3-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday. - David Kirouac-USA TODAY Sports

Justin Barron keen to show Canadiens management he belongs in NHL

Herb Zurkowsky, Montreal Gazette |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Newfoundland Rogues forward Marquis Collins promised his grandmother he’d make the NBA. He isn’t at that level yet, but every step he takes with the Rogues pulls him one inch closer to possibly fulfilling that promise.  Udantha Chandre/Newfoundland Rogues

Beating the odds: How a promise to his dying grandmother led Marquis Collins to St. John's to play with the Newfoundland Rogues

Nick Mercer · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

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