Новости за 12.04.2018

CEO and vice chair Bob Nicholson says Peter Chiarelli is still the right guy to lead the Oilers’ front office and isn’t going anywhere. However, when asked about Todd McLellan or his coaching staff, Nicholson would only say the team still has some thinking to do.

Forward Jozy Altidore is expected to return after suffering a foot injury last Tuesday in a 4-2 aggregate semifinal win over Liga MX side Club America in Mexico City. Vanney was also optimistic that defenders Chris Mavinga (lower body), Gregory van der Wiel (Achilles) and Justin Morrow (calf) would be available for the opener of the two-leg final against Chivas Guadalajara.

Ward, 20, was killed in 2014 during a a sprint car race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York. His car crash after contact with Stewart and when he climbed out of his car and began walking down the dimly lit track, he was hit by Stewart’s right rear tire.

Seahawks postponed the workout because the quarterback “declined to stop kneeling during the national anthem next season,” one report said.

The Mi’kmaq Sport Council of Nova Scotia is behind the effort to host the games, which include more than 5,000 Indigenous participants in 15 events. The host will be decided after final presentations in early May.

Based on the regular season, Houston and Toronto have the best cases, but the Raptors have LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers looming as a possible second-round opponent, while the Rockets have the Golden State Warriors on their horizon.

The Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors lead the way in NBA playoff odds.

A look a the lines and what Auston Matthews and Patrice Bergeron have to say

The Canadians dispatched an Australian pair 21-19, 22-20 to become the first women to win a gold medal in beach volleyball at the competition. Canada’s men’s pair could not overcome their Australian opponents, settling for silver.

The 28-year-old from Stittsville, Ont., who also won Olympic gold in Rio, beat opponents from Sierra Leone and England en route to pinning the Nigerian in the freestyle gold-medal match.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves for his 11th career playoff shutout and Shea Theodore scored the game’s lone goal on a first-period wrist shot. Game 2 goes Friday.

Joe Morrow scored the winner halfway through the third period for Winnipeg, a franchise that was swept in both its previous playoff appearances after joining the NHL in 1999 as the Atlanta Thrashers.

Head coach has been fine as a favourite, but the upsets have been few and far between.

Toronto will face Washington in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Toronto will face Washington in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Evgeni Malkin added a highlight-reel goal of his own and the Penguins overwhelmed their seemingly overmatched cross-state rivals to begin their quest for a third straight Stanley Cup.

Veteran right-hander gets roughed up second time through Baltimore order.

Young had spent two seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before signing as a free agent with the Eskimos in 2013.

Hall has accomplishments but he had never reached the NHL playoffs. The Devils face the Tampa Bay Lightning, the top team in the East, in the first round of the playoffs, beginning Thursday.

The hard-to-like Marchand hardly likes Plekanec from their Bruins-Canadiens battles.

The hard-to-like Marchand hardly likes Plekanec from their Bruins-Canadiens battles.

Dmitry Orlov and Sergei Bobrovsky have played together on the Russian national team but they’re split on opposite sides of a first-round series between Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets with Game 1 on Thursday night.

This is the best basketball team Toronto has had, regardless of what others might think.

The Predators are the Presidents’ Trophy winners for their first-round series starting Thursday night at home against the Colorado Avalanche.