Month: May 2020

The London Knights are one of just two Canadian Hockey League teams that have won the Memorial Cup more than once since 1996. The Knights captured their first title in 2005. They won again in 2016. The Windsor Spitfires won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010, and again when they hosted the tournament in 2017. […]

Police in Canada have arrested 20 people and brought hundreds of charges – including first-degree murder – in their latest attempt to disrupt violent turf wars between rival tow-truck operators. York regional police, which oversees a region north of Toronto, announced the arrests on Tuesday as part of an investigation dubbed Project Platinum. “We allege that the […]

American sports fans are fretting about when pro sports will come back as they know them, but in Canada the worry is whether some popular sports leagues will return at all. The economic damage from Covid-19 is ravaging the sports business on both sides of the border, but the pain promises to be more for […]

The new-school puckmover won the award for the second year in a row and his next challenge will come in the pros. Smith is one of several building blocks the Devils will be counting on in the coming years. It’s awards season in major junior, as all three circuits have steadily announced their winners due […]

A Toronto teenager has become the first Canadian ever charged with carrying out an “incel”-inspired terror attack. The 17-year-old boy is accused of fatally stabbing a woman in February. Incel, short for “involuntarily celibate,” is an online subculture focused on members’ perceived inability to find romantic or sexual partners. A 2018 attack in Toronto that […]

With his name already being mentioned in the same sentence as NHL stars John Tavares and Connor McDavid, forward Shane Wright could have buckled to the pressure in his first season with the Kingston Frontenacs. Wright instead found a way to deal with the white noise surrounding him and played beyond his age, and on […]

As restrictions begin to ease relating to COVID-19, Canada Soccer has announced that its member organizations must follow the “Return to Soccer Guidelines” before returning to the pitch. Guided by leadership from the Canada Soccer Sports Medicine Committee and in consultation with  federal, provincial, territorial and local public health authorities, the Return to Soccer Guidelines provide […]

The federal government will provide $72 million in relief funding to the country’s sport sector that has seen myriad events cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault made the announcement Friday, three days after Sports revealed a dire financial situation facing dozens of Canada’s national sport organizations. In addition to the money for […]

Dan MacKenzie is hopeful. The president of the Canadian Hockey League is trying to keep a positive outlook with an eye to the start of the 2020-21 regular season, but knows that answers remain out of his grasp and will for a while. With the COVID-19 pandemic causing upheaval around the globe, professional and amateur […]

The 2020 NHL Entry Draft is coming up, and this year’s draft class has the potential to be one of the best in recent memory. For the next month, we will be profiling each of the top prospects available in the draft — many of whom could be candidates to be selected by the Minnesota Wild. […]