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The Toronto Maple Leafs and forward Ilya Mikheyev have agreed to a two-year, $3.29 million US contract extension. The team announced the deal, which carries an average annual value of $1.645 million, on Tuesday. Mikheyev was a restricted free agent and reportedly heading to arbitration before the two sides agreed to the extension. The 26-year-old

There has been a slight tweak to the schedule for the next world junior hockey championship. The 2021 tournament will start on Christmas Day for the first time since 2005, with the Canadians hitting the ice to defend their gold medal for the first time a day later against Germany. The schedule for the 2021

When the folks at NBC held a Monday conference call for reporters on the occasion of the retirement of hockey broadcaster Mike (Doc) Emrick, it wasn’t just reporters who dialed in. Given Emrick’s status as the voice of the sport in the United States, Monday’s announcement that he was setting down his play-by-play headset after

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Here’s what you need to know right now from the world of sports: Tampa Bay and Los Angeles are on a roll As if we’re not envious enough of

If the NHL hopes to start a new season in January, there probably won’t be any fans in the buildings and games could be played in some sort of modified bubble format, say some experts. There’s also talk of an all-Canadian division but whatever plans are in place when the season opens could change over

After 15 years, the Joe Thornton era with the San Jose Sharks officially ended Friday when he signed a one-year, $700,000 (U.S.) contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Here are Thornton’s top 10 moments with the San Jose Sharks. 1. Thornton acquired by Sharks in a franchise-changing move: Doug Wilson makes the biggest splash of

Joe Thornton had plenty of conversations concerning the next, and perhaps final, step in his illustrious NHL career. The 41-year-old picked the brains of former teammates Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski, asking them both to look back and analyze their moves away from the San Jose Sharks. One phone call, however, that had little to

The Western Hockey League says it will resume play on Jan. 8, if it can receive the necessary permissions from health officials in Canada and the United States. The start date of the 2020-2021 season has been pushed back multiple times, first to October, and then to December. The WHL said in a release Wednesday

Brian Burke sits on his sofa sipping water, looking exhausted, his tie in trademark fashion — dangling around his neck rather than done up. There is no evidence in his living room or dining room that he has spent a lifetime in hockey as a player, manager, league executive and now as a broadcaster. Not

No. 99? Try number one. On Oct. 15, 1989, Wayne Gretzky tied and then surpassed the NHL’s all-time scoring record. He broke the record during a game against the Edmonton Oilers, the team he’d won four Stanley Cups with before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings the previous year. The game was stopped for a special

Pierre Dorion says it’s up to Ottawa head coach D.J. Smith to figure out how best to use the offensive talents of recently signed forward Evgenii Dadonov. But the Senators’ GM knows there’s one unit with which the skilled Russian is certain to find plenty of ice time. “We know he’ll be on the first

Players within the Greater Toronto Hockey League are free agents, now that the Ontario Hockey Federation has temporarily lifted a ban on so-called outlaw leagues. Minor hockey players whose sanctioned leagues are not operating during the COVID-19 pandemic — like the GTHL — can play in unsanctioned organizations until their regular leagues return to the

The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed 41-year-old forward Joe Thornton to a one-year contract worth $700,000 US. Thornton, a six-time all star and the winner of the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP in 2006, is a veteran of 1,636 career NHL regular-season games between the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks. He has recorded

If there was a moment in the early days of Nick Kypreos’s 21-year run as a Sportsnet hockey broadcaster that illustrated the minefield-laden existence of an ex-NHLer paid to critique NHLers, it came in the form of an intermission phone call. On the occasion in question Kypreos, who had only recently retired as a Maple

With the future of professional women’s hockey in flux, a trio of Canadians are set to strap on their skates to compete in CBC’s Battle of the Blades. Meghan Agosta, Jennifer Botterill and Jessica Campbell will make their figure skating debuts next Thursday when the sixth season of the show premieres. While toe picks and

So here we are in mid-October and nobody’s playing hockey. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Joe Thornton is voting with his feet and is off to skate with Davos in the Swiss league. It’s really here in North America where the days of fall seem pretty empty without the beginning of a new hockey season.

A thought crossed Brendan Gallagher’s mind for the first time this week. The gritty, diminutive Montreal Canadiens winger has made a career out of going to the dirty areas of the ice where hockey can be nasty, mean and unforgiving. But as word leaked that negotiations on a new contract had stalled, Gallagher, who’s been

The Montreal Canadiens have signed forward Brendan Gallagher to a six-year contract extension with an average annual value of $6.5 million US. The 28-year-old Gallagher had 43 points in 59 games with the Canadiens in 2019-20. His 22 goals were tied with Tomas Tatar for most on the club. It marked the third straight season