PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars can punch their ticket to the WHL's Western Conference Final with a win Friday night versus the visiting Kelowna Rockets at CN Centre.The Cougars lead the series 3-1. They will meet the winner of the Portland/Everett series. Portland leads that series 3-0 with Game 4 schedule f...

QUESNEL - It was exciting news when the city of Quesnel announced they were the 3rd expansion team to join the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL). The first time the city has had junior hockey since 2011.Tracy Mero will take the reigns as the new owner and president of the team after he bought and relo...

PRINCE GEORGE - The Kelowna Rockets staved off elimination by beating the Prince George Cougars 2-1 on Wednesday night at Prospera Place in Kelowna before 3,852 fans. The Rockets scored a pair of goals late in the second period to give them a two-goal lead heading into the third period. Those goals came from Max Graham...

PRINCE GEORGE- The UNBC Timberwolves men's soccer team has announced the committment of Luke Graham for the 2024 Canada West season."The whole experience at UNBC was super welcoming. Everybody was coming up to me, dabbing me up and introducing themselves. It seems like a great community that has been built and I'm...

The chase for the Stanley Cup is back underway, with the NHL's top 16 teams left to duke it out through four gruelling rounds. It's also arguably the most wide open the post-season has been in years, if not decades. Nearly everyone who qualified has a chance to win it all, with no prohibitive favourite as the first rou...

The NHL post-season is now set. The playoffs begin Saturday with the Toronto Maple Leafs taking on the Boston Bruins in opening-round action. The Vancouver Canucks open their first-round series against the Nashville Predators. The Winnipeg Jets, meanwhile, will matchup against the Colorado Avalanche. The Edmonton Oiler...

DENVER (AP) - Valeri Nichushkin scored twice, Nathan MacKinnon added two assists to break the franchise's single-season points mark and the Colorado Avalanche cruised into the playoffs behind a 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. MacKinnon wrapped up the regular season with 140 points (51 goals, 89 assi...

CALGARY - Blake Coleman scored his 30th goal and MacKenzie Weegar got his 20th as the Calgary Flames set multiple personal milestones in a season-ending 5-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. Adam Klapka, with his first NHL goal, Oliver Kylington, and Kevin Rooney also scored for Calgary (38-39-5). The...

WINNIPEG - Nikita Chibrikov scored the game-winner in his NHL debut and Cole Perfetti tallied a pair of goals as the Winnipeg Jets defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 to close out their regular seasons on Thursday. The victory produced some notable accomplishments in front of the ninth sellout crowd of the season at Can...

MONTREAL - Kristin O'Neill scored twice, and Montreal pulled off an epic comeback for a 4-3 win over Minnesota on Thursday night in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Down 3-2, Montreal pulled the goalie for an extra attacker with 2:49 left in the game - and it paid off. Laura Stacey fired a one-timer past Maddie ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) - Nelly Korda, who is looking to tie an LPGA Tour record with her fifth straight win, shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday in the opening round of the Chevron Championship, leaving her two shots behind leader Lauren Coughlin in the year's first major. Coughlin shot a bogey-free 66 in windy conditions...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Dylan Strome was never good at losing, whether it was playing baseball in his front yard or stick hockey in the basement with his brothers. "He hated losing more than he loved winning," younger brother Matt Strome said. "He was never satisfied unless he won, and if he lost you would...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Scottie Scheffler is running on fumes after an exhausting Masters victory just four days ago. He hit a shank from a bunker. He nearly lost his mind from mud on his golf ball. And he still managed a 2-under 69 at the RBC Heritage on Thursday. J.T. Poston set the pace on an idyllic day on ...

QUESNEL - It was exciting news when the city of Quesnel announced they were the 3rd expansion team to join the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL). The first time the city has had junior hockey since 2011.Tracy Mero will take the reigns as the new owner and president of the team after he bought and relo...

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The deal has not been finalized, and no money has...

Canada's sports integrity watchdog is pushing for stronger policies to prevent competitive manipulation and match-fixing at all levels of competition. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport issued its first draft of a new program to prevent competition manipulation on Wednesday, the same day that the NBA banned former...

The so-called free agency period at the start of an Olympic quadrennial is typically the high-water mark for curling team adjustments and player movement. Surprise announcements in recent days and speculation on what's to come has created a Roaring Game version of a mid-quad trade deadline. Teams want to strike before...

CALGARY - The Canadian team attempting to reclaim a world para hockey championship on home ice was announced Thursday by Hockey Canada. Canada is the host team of the 2024 world championship May 4-12 in Calgary. The 17-player roster features a dozen returners from the squad that took silver in 2023 in Moose Jaw, Sask. ...

KLADNO, Czech Republic (AP) - Jaromir Jagr returned to action Thursday for the first time since turning 52 and immediately scored as he surpassed legend Gordie Howe to become the oldest player taking regular shifts in professional ice hockey. Howe, known as "Mr. Hockey," was 52 years, 11 days old when played ...

DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Stars have quite an age gap. Top goal scorer Wyatt Johnston is only 20 years old, and was a teenager for most of the playoffs last year. On the other end for the Western Conference's top-seeded team is Joe Pavelski, who will turn 40 this summer and has more points this season than the kid who a...

MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Rod Brind'Amour remembers those early days as a first-time head coach for a franchise that had gone nearly a decade without reaching the playoffs. He realizes now just how much he didn't know back then. "But I didn't know I didn't know it," he said, "and that was big because I di...

The NHL team moving from Arizona to Salt Lake City will be known as Utah, at least initially, until a long-term name is determined. "We'll start with Utah on the jersey and we'll figure out the logo and everything else and what it is that we are," new owner Ryan Smith told The Associated Press. "We're go...

OTTAWA - Senators captain Brady Tkachuk didn't mince words when talking about Ottawa missing the NHL playoffs for a seventh straight season. "I'm sick and tired of losing," Tkachuk said Thursday as the Senators cleaned out their lockers. "I don't want to be going home in April anymore. It's frustrating, ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - General manager Tom Fitzgerald is looking for a new coach for the New Jersey Devils and interim skipper Travis Green remains in the running for the job. Speaking three days after the Devils ended a disappointing season by missing the playoffs, Fitzgerald said he hopes to have a full-time coach in pl...

TORONTO - Gradey Dick's rookie season got off to a rough start as he struggled to put up numbers in his limited time with the Toronto Raptors. But advice that his parents gave kept him focused and motivated. Dick was selected 13th overall out by Toronto in last summer's NBA draft out and was expected to split time betw...

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - The Arizona Coyotes are officially headed to Salt Lake City. The NHL Board of Governors voted unanimously Thursday to approve a $1.2 billion sale from Alex Meruelo to Utah Jazz owners Ryan and Ashley Smith, clearing the way for the franchise's move to Utah next season. The deal includes a provision ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) - Defending champion and world No. 2 Lilia Vu withdrew from the Chevron Championship on Thursday before the first round because of a back injury. The LPGA announced her withdrawal, saying the back injury she's been dealing with "flared up" during warmups. The back issue forced her to...

MUNICH - Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Bavarian International Tennis Championships with a 6-3, 6-2 over Japan's Taro Daniel on Thursday. Auger-Aliassime, the fifth seed in Munich, won 80 per cent of first serve points, including nine aces, and converted all four of his break poin...