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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 8, 2023 12:26 pm Updated July 8, 2023 2:10 pm

Connor McDavid dominated the NHL season. The Edmonton Oilers captain did the same at the league’s awards ceremony on Monday.McDavid won his third Hart Trophy as NHL MVP on the heels of a 153-point campaign — the most in the NHL since Mario Lemieux’s 161 in 1995-96.The 26-year-old started the night by taking home his

The Golden Knights delivered their city a true Vegas-style party from dazzling passes to Mark Stone’s hat trick to all-out goal celebrations, capturing the young organization’s first Stanley Cup with a 9-3 romp over the beaten up and exhausted Florida Panthers on Tuesday night. Coach Bruce Cassidy, in a nod to the Knights’ brief history

Brendan Shanahan started the week wanting to keep Kyle Dubas in the fold. A stunning, roller-coaster five days culminated with the Toronto Maple Leafs now in the market for a new general manager ahead of what could be a defining summer for the success-starved Original Six franchise.Shanahan, the team’s president, fired his 37-year-old GM on

The Vegas Golden Knights rolled to a convincing 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers Monday night at Rogers Place, to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven second round series. “I didn’t think we skated well, I didn’t think we were hard enough in certain areas and to a man, not our finest hour in

Most hockey players quench their thirst with water when coming off the ice. Zachary L’Heureux is not most hockey players. A video of the 19-year-old Halifax Mooseheads forward drinking mustard on the bench has been viewed over 100,000 times on social media after the official QMJHL account posted it to their Twitter account this week.Zachary

The Edmonton Oilers advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 5-4 road win over the Los Angeles Kings Saturday night. “You know we beat them in a long series last year too,” Oilers captain Connor McDavid said after the game “We’re comfortable playing in these games. We’ve said that, I

TAMPA, Fla. — The Maple Leafs finally exorcised their playoff demons — and are off to the second round of the NHL playoffs. John Tavares scored at 4:36 of overtime and Ilya Samsonov made 31 saves as Toronto defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Saturday to win their series 4-2 and advance in the

The Los Angeles Kings are offering to fly a young Edmonton Oilers fan out to cheer on her team in Game 6 this weekend. Normally, hockey clubs don’t encourage fans of rival teams to attend games — let alone fly them out — but this situation was anything but normal.There was an uproar on social

Just a year after going pro, Canadian Strongman Mitchell Hooper has captured the greatest prize in his sport, claiming the title of World’s Strongest Man. Known as “The Moose” in the Strongman community, the Barrie, Ont., competitor beat out nine other international competitors in various feats of strength in Myrtle Beach, S.C., over the weekend