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Nazem Kadri walked out the front doors of the London Muslim Mosque on Saturday and hoisted the Stanley Cup as he celebrated winning hockey’s highest trophy with his hometown community. The 31-year-old won the Cup in June as a member of the Colorado Avalanche and is believed to be the first member of his faith to become

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The United States scored three goals in the second period and Gabby Graves-Wake and Hope Bevilhymer combined for the shutout as they defeated Canada 5-0 in Friday’s opening game of the four-team Para Ice Hockey Women’s World Challenge. Kelsey DiClaudio scored twice for the Americans, while Catherin Faherty, Madison Eberhard and

A Canadian Olympic champion says she was asked to sit on a Hockey Canada oversight committee — but the offer was withdrawn after she lobbied for leadership change in response to the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the organization in recent months. Rower and three-time Olympic gold medallist Marnie McBean said she was approached by the high-profile

Women’s professional hockey is expanding in North America, but remains divided. The Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association (PWHPA) possessing the bulk of player star power in Canada and the United States has a league in development with Billie Jean King and Mark Walter, co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, as potential backers. The Premier Hockey

Stanley Cup champion Nazem Kadri is a role model for thousands of hockey-playing Muslim children in Canada, but things were different in the 1990s when he was getting started in the sport. “Growing up watching the NHL, I didn’t really see anybody that looked like me or resembled my background,” said Kadri, 31, who grew up in London, Ont., one of five children

HERNING, Denmark – Sarah Nurse says the timing couldn’t be better to be the first woman to grace the cover of EA Sports’ NHL 23. The 27-year-old from Hamilton joined Anaheim Ducks centre Trevor Zegras as the faces of the video game’s next edition unveiled Thursday. Nurse, who contributed a goal and an assist in

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. The NHL and NHL Players’ Association are moving “full steam ahead” with reviving the World Cup in 2024, deputy commissioner Bill Daly said yesterday. The plan, according to Daly, is for

SASKATOON – Former Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock has resigned as coach of the University of Saskatchewan’s men’s hockey team after just one season at the helm. The Saskatchewan Huskies announced Thursday that Brandin Cote, who served as an associate coach under Babcock last year, has been named team’s new interim head coach. Babcock

Nazem Kadri will walk through the doors of the London Muslim Mosque in southwestern Ontario with the Stanley Cup this weekend as part of a hometown celebration the 31-year-old NHL star wanted by design.  Kadri, the only son of five children born in London to Lebanese parents, is believed to be the first Muslim player to

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights bolstered their forward depth by signing veteran Phil Kessel to a one-year, $1.5 million deal Wednesday. The 34-year-old Kessel spent the past three seasons with the Arizona Coyotes. The two-time Stanley Cup champion has 399 goals and 557 assists in 1,204 career games with Boston, Toronto, Pittsburgh

The Vegas Golden Knights bolstered their forward depth by signing veteran Phil Kessel to a one-year, $1.5 million US deal Wednesday. The 34-year-old Kessel spent the past three seasons with the Arizona Coyotes. The two-time Stanley Cup champion has 399 goals and 557 assists in 1,204 career games with Boston, Toronto, Pittsburgh and Arizona. Kessel

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus Blue Jackets center Alexandre Texier will not join the team for the upcoming season because of unspecified personal problems. The Blue Jackets said in a release Wednesday that the 22-year-old native of Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France, would not be with the team for the 2022-23 season, “per the advice and recommendation of

Canada’s women’s hockey team starts the world championship remembering the words of a man who climbed Mount Everest twice. Jamie Clarke, a Canadian adventurer who reached the top of the world’s highest mountain in 1997 and 2010, spoke to the women’s team twice in the weeks leading up to February’s Olympic Games in Beijing where

Hilary Knight is unaccustomed to losing, leaving the face of the U.S. national women’s hockey team still feeling the sting of watching the Canadians celebrate their gold-medal victory at the Beijing Winter Games in February. The memory following a 3-2 loss had Knight looking ahead to settling several scores before the Americans left for Denmark,

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. Like the just-completed men’s world juniors, the women’s world championship is taking place at a decidedly un-hockey time of year. It was the same for the women in 2021, when

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes signed veteran Paul Stastny to a $1.5 million contract on Tuesday, a move that shores up their forward depth. Stastny’s addition could fill a void with winger Max Pacioretty expected to miss several months after undergoing surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon. The Hurricanes are trying to

The Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA) is in dire need of referees. The league, whose teams have been a fixture in northern rinks since 1919, has lost about 200 on-ice officials over the past few years, which could force cancellations in the 2022-23 season. Association president Jason Marchand said COVID-19 played a “significant” role in keeping

This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com When Canada beat the Soviets in Game 8 of the Summit Series 50 years ago, some 16 million Canadians, or about 73 per