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Edmonton Elks add Jason Shivers, four others to coaching staff

EDMONTON - Jason Shivers is back with the Edmonton Elks.

 

The team announced added new hires to its coaching staff led by head coach Chris Jones on Monday.

 

Shivers, who played five seasons in the CFL with Toronto (2007-09) and Hamilton (2010-11), previously served as Edmonton's defensive backs coach for two seasons (2014 and 2015), helping the team capture the 2015 Grey Cup.

 

He returns as the club's assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

 

Shivers joined Jones's staff in Saskatchewan in 2016 as defensive backs coach before getting promoted to defensive coordinator, a position he held with the Roughriders until the end of the 2023 season.

 

Edmonton has also brought on board Markus Klund as the defensive backs coach, Albert Poree as the running backs coach, Nate O'Neal as the defensive line coach, and Takoby Cofield as the assistant offensive line coach.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Montreal Canadiens assign defensive prospect David Reinbacher to AHL's Laval Rocket

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens have assigned prospect David Reinbacher to the American Hockey League's Laval Rocket.

 

The 19-year-old defenceman had a goal and 10 assists with Switzerland's Kloten HC over 35 games this season.

 

Reinbacher was selected fifth overall by the Habs in last year's NHL Draft.

 

Kloten HC did not make the Swiss-A League's playoffs, freeing Reinbacher to play in North America.

 

Laval is chasing the Toronto Marlies for the fifth and final playoff spot in the AHL's North Division.

 

Toronto (27-20-11) has 65 points with two games in hand over the Rocket (27-25-8), who have 62 points.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Elks may be looking to sell to private owners after 75 years of community ownership

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Elks may be looking to sell to a private ownership group for the first time in the franchise's 75-year history.

 

The Elks say that the team's president and the chair of its board provided an update to the Canadian Football League's Board of Governors on its ongoing ownership review yesterday.

 

That update is based on the findings of a special committee working with Park Lane, a sports investment bank that managed the sale of the Montreal Alouettes a year ago.

 

The special committee will bring its recommendations to the Elks' board of directors, who will then decide the best ownership for the CFL club going forward.

 

Edmonton's football team has been community-owned since it was founded in 1949.

 

The team had an operating loss of $3.3 million in 2022, the fourth straight year the community-owned club ran a deficit.

 

(The Canadian Press)

PWHL Toronto's Brittany Howard suspended one game for cross-check

TORONTO - The Professional Women's Hockey League handed Toronto forward Brittany Howard a one-game suspension on Thursday for a cross-checking incident in Toronto's 3-0 win over Montreal last Friday.

 

The infraction occurred late in the second period when Howard struck Montreal defender Catherine Daoust in the back of the head during a scramble in front of the net.

 

Daoust got up under her own power, but in obvious pain,

Howard was not penalized on the play, with Montreal head coach Kori Cheverie saying post-game that the officials told her they didn't see the hit.

 

In addition, Howard, along with fellow Toronto forward Rebecca Leslie, each received $250 fines for grabbing the face mask of an opposing player.

 

That occurred during a melee midway through the second period that saw six players penalized, three from each side.

 

(The Canadian Press)

 

Toronto Maple Leafs sign forward McMann to two-year contract extension

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed centre Bobby McMann to a two-year contract extension.

 

The average annual value of the contract is US$1.35 million. McMann was set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer.

 

He has 18 points (10 goals, eight assists) in 40 games this season.

McMann, 27, went undrafted after his four-year career at Colgate University concluded in 2019-20.

 

The six-foot-two, 210-pound forward originally joined the Maple Leafs organization as a free agent on April 2, 2020. He had 71 points (49 goals, 22 assists) in 118 career American Hockey League games with the Leafs' affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.

 

McMann played his first 10 NHL games in 2022-23, with one assist in that span for the Leafs.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Canadian wrestler Erica Wiebe, an Olympic gold medallist, announces retirement

Wrestler Erica Wiebe, who won a gold medal for Canada at the 2016 Olympics, announced her retirement from competition on Wednesday.

 

Wiebe claimed Olympic gold in the women's 75-kilogram weight class, defeating Kazakhstan's Guzel Manyurova in the final, at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

The 34-year-old from Stittsville, Ont., also won the bronze medal at the 2018 world championships and was a two-time Commonwealth Games champion.

 

Wiebe will remain active in the sport as a broadcaster, coach, and administrator.

 

She currently serves as manager of athlete relations, safe sport, and diversity, equity and inclusion for the Canadian Olympic Committee.

 

Wiebe will be honoured at the Canadian wrestling championships in Ottawa on March 15.

 

(The Canadian Press)

All-star goalie Thatcher Demko expected to be absent from Vancouver Canucks practice

All-star goalie Thatcher Demko was expected to be absent from Vancouver Canucks practice Tuesday, days after suddenly leaving a game.

 

Demko went directly down the tunnel during a T.V. timeout in the second period of Vancouver's 5-0 drubbing of the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

 

Backup Casey DeSmith finished out the matchup for the Canucks (42-17-7) and head coach Rick Tocchet declined to speculate about the reason for Demko's departure after the game.

The team recalled goaltender Arturs Silovs under emergency conditions from its AHL affiliate in Abbotsford on Tuesday.

 

Demko, 28, boasts a .917 save percentage, five shutouts and a 2.47 goals-against average this season, a performance that's helped vault Vancouver to the top of the Western Conference standings. He earned his league-leading 34th win of the season Saturday and was named one of the NHL's three stars of the week Monday.

 

The Canucks will host the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.

Canadian men to face Mexico in September friendly in Texas at Dallas Cowboys' home

Canada will face 15th-ranked Mexico in a men's soccer friendly in the September FIFA international window.

 

The game is scheduled for Sept. 10 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

 

it's the second high-profile friendly announced recently. The 50th-ranked Canadians are set to face the sixth-ranked Netherlands in Rotterdam on June 6.

 

The matchups have been months in the making with teams looking for tune-ups ahead of Euro 2024, set to kick off June 14 in Germany, and Copa America, which starts June 20 across the U.S.

 

The September game marks the first meeting with Mexico since a 2-1 World Cup qualifying win by Canada in wintry conditions in Edmonton in November 2021. The teams tied 1-1 in the meeting prior to that in October 2021, Canada's first point at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium since 1980.

 

Mexico leads the all-time series with a 20-5-9 record, however.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Ice dancer Sorensen says he deserves to be at worlds amid sexual assault allegation

MONTREAL - Ice dancer Nikolaj Sorensen believes he and partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry deserve to compete for Canada at the figure skating world championships this month amid sexual assault allegations surrounding the Danish-Canadian athlete.

 

The world championships are set for March 18 to 24 at Montreal's Bell Centre.

 

Sorensen and Fournier Beaudry withdrew from the Canadian championship in Calgary in January after USA Today reported earlier that month an American figure skating coach and former skater accused Sorensen of sexually assaulting her in Hartford, Conn., in 2012.

 

The allegations have not been proven in court. Sorensen called the allegations false in an Instagram post and stated the pair withdrew from nationals because they felt it would be a distraction.

 

Sorensen and Fournier Beaudry returned to competition for the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Beijing at the end of January, winning a silver medal. Skate Canada then named Sorensen and Fournier Beaudry to the Canadian world championship team last month. Skate Canada chief executive officer Debra Armstrong says the organization chose the athletes based on selection criteria.

 

Skate Canada says the case is now in the hands of Canada's Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner. Sorensen says he cannot comment on the details of the case.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Mike McEwen takes control of Pool B with 10-2 win over Jamie Koe at Brier

REGINA - Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen took control of Pool B at the Canadian men's curling championship with a 10-2 win over Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories in Wednesday's early draw.

 

McEwen improved to 5-1 to lead the pool and stopped a three-game winning streak for Koe (4-2) at the Montana's Brier.

 

The Saskatchewan foursome took a 6-2 lead with two points in the sixth, then put the game away with steals of two in the seventh and eight before Koe conceded.

 

Two-time defending champion Brad Gushue (5-2) kept pace with McEwen with an 11-3 rout of Prince Edward Island's Tyler Smith (4-2).

 

Gushue got off to a strong start by opening with three points followed by a steal of two.

 

In other Draw 13 results, Nunavut's Shane Latimer (1-5) picked up his first win with a 7-5 victory over Nova Scotia's Matthew Manuel (3-4) and Alberta's Aaron Sluchinski (3-3) scored a deuce in an extra end in a 10-8 win over Quebec's Julien Tremblay (2-4).

 

(The Canadian Press)

Survey finds 25% of Canadians think discrimination is a problem in sports

One-quarter of respondents polled last year felt that racism and discrimination were problems in community sports in the country, according to a survey published Monday by Statistics Canada.

 

Eighteen per cent of respondents said they have experienced or witnessed racism or discrimination in sport over the last five years, with race or skin colour the most cited reason at 64 per cent.

 

Physical appearance was cited in 42 per cent of incidents and ethnicity or culture in 38 per cent.

LGTBQ Canadians (42 per cent) were more than twice as likely as heterosexuals (17 per cent) to report having experienced or witnessed discrimination.

 

Athletes made up 80 per cent of those who saw or were subjected to discrimination, with spectators at 26 per cent. Coaches and those in non-athletic roles ranged from five to 15 per cent.

Participants and athletes (64 per cent), spectators (39 per cent) and coaches and instructors (36 per cent) were most often responsible for acts of discrimination.

 

The likelihood of experiencing or witnessing discrimination in a sport decreased with age, peaking among people aged 15 to 24 (30 per cent) and gradually declining to seven per cent among people 65 and older.

 

The data for the survey came from the Survey Series on People and their Communities (SSPC) - Participation and Experiences in Community Sports, which was collected from Nov. 27-Dec. 17, 2023.

 

Statistics Canada said racialized and immigrant groups were oversampled “to provide adequate coverage of these groups.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 4, 2024.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Northwest Territories' Jamie Koe beats defending champ Gushue 7-5 in Brier

Northwest Territories' Jamie Koe upset defending champion Brad Gushue 7-5 at the Canadian men's curling championship.

 

Koe, who has skipped a territories team to the playoffs once in 16 previous Brier appearances, improved to 3-1 and dropped Gushue to 2-2 in Pool B.

 

Gushue is attempting to win a third straight national title and the sixth of his career.

 

Prince Edward Island's Tyler Smith was 2-1 after a 10-3 victory over Nunavut's Shane Latimer (0-3).

 

Four-time champion Kevin Koe of Alberta (1-3) continued to struggle in a 11-6 loss to Quebec's Julien Tremblay (2-2).

 

Nova Scotia's Matthew Manuel (1-3) won his first game of the tournament with a 6-2 defeat of Alberta's Aaron Sluchinski (2-1).

 

(The Canadian Press)

Canada's Pamela Ware advances to 3m final at diving World Cup in Montreal

Canada's Pamela Ware put forth a solid performance and advanced to the women's three-metre springboard final at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup on Thursday.

 

The 31-year-old Ware, who won silver in Montreal last year, was coming off a disappointing 25th-place finish at the world championship in Doha earlier this month. She also missed her final dive in the synchronized event alongside partner Mia Vallee as Canada failed to secure a quota spot for this summer's Paris Olympics.

 

Ware, of Montreal, placed sixth out of 17 in the preliminary round while Calgary's Aimee Wilson also moved on with a 12th-place finish at the Olympic Pool. Three-time world championship gold medallist Chen Yiwen of China came first.

 

Amelie-Laura Jasmin, a 19-year-old from Montreal, placed 13th and missed the cut in her first-ever World Cup event.

The women's three-metre final is set for Saturday.

 

Competition continues Thursday with the men's 10-metre preliminaries.

 

(The Canadian Press)

2023- 2024 Norman Northstars Awards


Barry Paterson Most Popular Player: Daylin Monias

Terry Murray Most Dedicated Player: Lincoln Richcoon

Neal Stapleton Memorial Volunteer Award: Gage Gogal

Ridgestone Financial Most Sportsmanlike Player: Austin Gibb

Most Improved Player: Malcolm Snooks

Cliff Duchesne Hardest Working Northstar: Isaac Tomchak

USW Local 6166 Top Defensive Forward: Gregory Wiseman

Defensive Player of the Year: Preston Kaludjak

Offensive Player of the Year: Tyler Wamboldt

Paul Lafreniere Memorial Best Defenseman: Isaac Catcheway

Rookie of the Year: Chantyn Michell-Thompson & Tyler Wamboldt

Top Scorer: Chantyn Michell-Thompson

Most Valuable Player Award: Preston Kaludjak

Maple Leafs recall goaltender Woll after successful conditioning stint with Marlies

The Toronto Maple Leafs have recalled goaltender Joseph Woll from his conditioning stint with the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies, the NHL club announced Monday.

 

Woll stopped 36 of 37 shots in the Marlies' 4-1 win at Laval on Friday.

 

It was the 25-year-old's first game action since he sustained a high ankle sprain in the Maple Leafs' 4-3 win at Ottawa on Dec. 7.

 

Woll had an 8-5-1 record with a 2.80 goals-against average and .916 save percentage before the injury.

 

The Leafs have solidified their once volatile situation in goal. Starter Ilya Samsonov has won six straight starts and nine of 11 since clearing waivers on Jan. 1 and undergoing a conditioning stint with the Marlies.

 

Martin Jones has won seven of 11 games since being called up to replace Woll.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Canada's Christopher Morales Williams sets world indoor 400m record over weekend

Christopher Morales Williams continued raising his profile on the U.S. university track scene this weekend.

 

The 19-year-old Vaughan, Ont., native set a world indoor record in the men's 400 metres with a time of 44.49 seconds to win the NCAA Southeastern Conference indoor championships on Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark. If ratified, he tops the mark of 44.57 from American Kerron Clement in 2005.

 

The time also resets Morales Williams's Canadian record in the event.

 

The University of Georgia sophomore had initially set the Canadian indoor 400 record at 46.05 seconds on Jan. 20 in Boston.

 

He then reset that mark with 45.39 on Feb. 9 at the Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational.

 

Morales Williams also owns the Canadian 300 record, which he set on Jan. 13 at Clemson with a time of 32.47 seconds.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Norman Northstars wraps up hockey season after two-game homestand with Southwest Cougars

The Norman Northstars wrapped up their regular season with a two-game home stand against the Southwest Cougars this weekend.

Saturday’s game went into overtime and then a shoot-out,  where the Northstars came out with a 4-3 win after a goal from Daylin Monias.

Sunday, the Northstars lost 5-2, leaving them out of playoff contention by just one point.

Congratulations to the players and coaches for such a great season.

Canadian Championship draw produces local matchups in preliminary round

Friday's Canadian Championship draw produced a slew of local matchups with the defending champion Vancouver Whitecaps and 2023 runner-up CF Montreal watching from the sidelines at the start.

 

Both MLS teams get byes to the quarterfinals of the 14-team, five-round competition that runs through September with the winner hoisting the Voyageurs Cup and qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

 

Toronto FC will host semi-pro Simcoe County Rovers of League1 Ontario in the preliminary round while Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League welcomes the Victoria Highlanders of League1 BC. CS St-Laurent of Ligue1 Quebec visits the CPL's Halifax Wanderers.

 

Cavalry FC hosts Vancouver FC, Forge FC  welcomes York United and Atletico Ottawa entertains Valour FC  in the remaining preliminary-round games in all-CPL affairs.

 

The draw had teams assigned to East and West pots to help facilitate early regional matchups.

 

The single-game preliminary round runs from April 23 to May 1 with exact times to come later.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Jays left-hander Ricky Tiedemann scratched from start due to hamstring discomfort

Blue Jays left-hander Ricky Tiedemann has been scratched from starting Saturday's pre-season opener against Philadelphia due to left hamstring discomfort.

 

Manager John Schneider says it's a precautionary move and the team expects to have more details once imaging results are complete.

 

Tiedemann experienced discomfort while doing conditioning work this morning at the team's player development complex.

He'll likely start the season in the minor leagues but, if healthy, could be in the mix for potentially landing the No. 5 spot in Toronto's rotation.

 

Schneider says right-hander Chad Dallas will get the start against the Phillies instead.

 

The pre-season will continue for the next few weeks ahead of the regular-season opener March 28 at Tampa Bay.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Canadiens claim forward Colin White off waivers from Penguins

The Montreal Canadiens claimed forward Colin White off waivers from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.

 

White went without a point through 11 games in Pittsburgh while producing five goals and five assists in 21 games with American Hockey League affiliate Wilkes-Barre/Scranton this season.

 

The 27-year-old is on a one-year, US$775,000 contract. He joins his fourth NHL team after previous stints with the Ottawa Senators - who drafted him 21st overall in 2015 - and the Florida Panthers.

 

In a corresponding move, the Canadiens placed forward Brandon Gignac on waivers.

 

The 26-year-old Gignac has one goal in seven games with the NHL club and leads AHL affiliate Laval with 42 points in 43 games this season.

 

White will make his Montreal debut against his former team Thursday night with the Canadiens in Pittsburgh to take on the Penguins.

 

(The Canadian Press)

54th MUNN Cup

The 54th Munn Cup saw Thompson teams at the top of all three divisions.

The Thompson King Miners 1 were tops in the AA division and were rewarded with the Munn Cup  while the Thompson King Miners 2 took home the Crockett Cup as winners of the A1 division. 

The Timmons Cup went to the Carrol Aviation Areos for winning the B division winners while the Twin Motors Vipers were third.

This year has 13 teams from Thompson, The Pas, Flin Flon, Norway House, Cross Lake, Gilliam and Swan River.

 

 

 

Sturmay qualifies for Tournament of Hearts playoff with extra-end win over McCarville

CALGARY - Alberta's Selena Sturmay improved to 6-0 and clinched a playoff spot at the Canadian women's curling championship with a 10-9 extra-end win over Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville in Wednesday's opening draw.

 

Sturmay came back from a 6-1 deficit after four ends, and a steal of three in the ninth end put the Albertans up 9-7.

 

McCarville (3-3) responded with two in the 10th to force the extra end, but Sturmay made the most of having the hammer in the 11th and came out with a win.

 

With two Pool A draws left, Sturmay can finish no worse than second in the group. Four-time defending champion Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Man., who was idle Wednesday morning, is second in the pool at 5-1.

 

In other scores, rookie Saskatchewan skip Skylar Ackerman took sole possession of third place in the pool at 4-3 with a 9-6 win over Newfoundland and Labrador's Stacie Curtis (1-5).

Prince Edward Island's Jane DiCarlo fell to 0-7 with a 10-6 loss to Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes (3-3) and British Columbia's Corryn Brown downed Quebec's Laurie St-Georges 8-3. Both teams are 3-3.

 

Two more draws were scheduled for Wednesday.

 

The top three teams in each pool after Thursday's final draw advance to Friday's six-team playoff round, from which Saturday's four Page playoff teams will be determined.

 

Tiebreaker games have been eliminated from the format. Head-to-head results followed by cumulative draw-to-the-button scores that precede each game solve ties.

 

The winner of Sunday's final represents Canada at the world championship March 16-24 in Sydney, N.S., and earns a return trip to the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont., as defending champion.

 

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 21, 2024.

 

(The Canadian Press)

Dabrowski, Routliffe advance to women's doubles quarterfinals in Dubai

The second-seeded team of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe advanced to the women's doubles quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 5-7, 6-2, 10-6 second-round win over China's Zhang Shuai and Kazakhstan's Anna Danilina on Wednesday.

 

After losing a close first set, Dabrowski and Routliffe responded with a dominant second set. They saved the only break point they faced while breaking their opponents twice on six chances.

 

They then won 100 per cent of first-serve points, including their lone ace of the match, to take the third set.

 

Dabrowski and Routliffe will next face the sixth-seeded duo of Ukraine's Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 tournament.

 

It's a rematch from this year's Australian Open semifinals, which Kichenok and Ostapenko won 7-5, 7-5.

 

Wednesday's win was a bounce back for Dabrowski and Routliffe, who were upset in the second round of the Qatar Open last week by Ekaterina Alexandrova and Irina Khromacheva of Russia.

 

(The Canadian Press)

NLL's New York team to move to Ottawa and be renamed Black Bears starting next season

Ottawa has a new professional sports team coming to town.

 

The National Lacrosse League is returning to the nation's capital, with the New York Riptide moving north of the border starting next season.

 

The team will be named the Ottawa Black Bears and will play out of the Canadian Tire Centre, home of the NHL's Senators.

 

NLL Commissioner Brett Frood made the announcement Wednesday.

 

New York is seventh among 15 NLL teams this season with a 5-5 record.

 

The Black Bears will be the sixth Canadian team in the league, joining Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Saskatchewan and Calgary.

Northstar's Valentino named Coach of The Year

The Manitoba Triple A U18 Hockey league announced Justin Valentino as Coach of the Year for 2023-2024.

Valentino is his first year as head coach and has the Northstars in a playoff spot heading into the final week of the season. The league noted that Coach Valentino has been instrumental in redirecting the program and recruiting players from the north.  The Northstars boast the 2nd best power play in the league (21.5%).

Congratulations Justin!

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