National Sports

WINNIPEG — Acquiring a player who can win the majority of his faceoffs should pay dividends for the Winnipeg Jets.

MONCTON, N.B. — Keegan Warren earned a 38-save shutout as the Moncton Wildcats routed the Saint John Sea Dogs 7-0 on Sunday in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action.

BOSTON (AP) — Erin Ambrose scored a goal and assisted on Laura Stacey's winner in overtime to help Montreal beat Boston 2-1 Sunday.

SASKATOON — Mike McEwen is a veteran of Canadian men's curling championships, but he'll skip Saskatchewan for the first time at the Brier.

FIFA partially fleshed out the road map for the 2026 World Cup on Sunday, revealing Canada and Mexico will each host 13 games with the U.S. staging the remaining 78.

The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19.

Ottawa’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team was better than New York for 54 minutes and 54 seconds but that wasn’t enough.

FIFA acknowledges organizing the expanded 2026 FIFA World Cup comes with a severely ramped-up degree of difficulty compared to 2022 in Qatar.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have claimed defenceman Brayden Pachal off waivers from the Vegas Golden Knights. The 24-year-old from Estevan, Sask., spent the last five seasons with Vegas and its AHL affiliates.

The Premier League title race just got a lot tighter. Arsenal benefited from two second-half errors from Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker to claim a 3-1 victory over the league leaders on Sunday.