Hockey

4th place in the Central is likely to finish with more points than 1st place in the Pacific

But Pacific winner gets home ice

A youth hockey team in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says it was forced to forfeit a championship-deciding game after players allegedly left their dressing room in a messy state.

The U18 AA Soo Jr. Greyhounds were scheduled to play Game 3 in a best-of-three series against the Copper Cliff Reds inside the community centre in Blind River two weekends ago.

But following Game 2, the Jr. Greyhounds received an email from the Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA) that stated the final game was postponed due to the condition of their dressing room.

Within 48 hours of that message, the team said NOHA sent a follow-up email that escalated the ultimate decision from postponement to a forced forfeit.

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I'm new to the game ao still learning

Men’s hockey’s most coveted trophy arrived at the 46th annual Yukon Native Hockey Tournament this weekend in quintessential Yukon fashion: dog sled.

Tournament organizers, hockey players and community leaders celebrated the arrival of the Stanley Cup at a ceremony Saturday on Kwanlin Dün First Nation territory. The Yukon Native Hockey Tournament is one of the territory’s largest sporting events. This year’s tournament included 59 teams from across the Yukon, N.W.T., B.C. and Nunavut.

“For the tournament to be on their land for the last 46 years, and having it out here to see the wilderness and really signify the beauty of the Yukon … was truly special,” said Rick McLean, President of the Yukon First Nations Hockey Association and one of the tournament organizers.

The ceremony paid tribute to the Dawson City Nuggets, a team made up of mostly amateur hockey players from Dawson City that challenged the reigning champion Ottawa Hockey Club for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The team travelled nearly 6,400 kilometres by train, ship, bike and dog sled to Ottawa to play for the Cup, before ultimately falling to the Ottawa team.

The Florida Panthers cup winning success had brought light to the differences in state income taxes. The Seattle Kraken will most likely no longer enjoy that benefit.

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NEVER OUT OF IT 😤

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The St. John's Junior Hockey League is promising "severe suspensions" following "unacceptable" conduct on and off the ice during a junior hockey playoff game on Saturday night.

"It's something totally against what the league stands for," president Jim Hare told CBC News on Monday.

He described the behaviour at Saturday's game in St. John's as "disgusting" and "very disturbing."

Game 3 of the best-of-five quarter-final series between the league-leading St. John's Junior Caps and the last place Southern Shore Junior Breakers disintegrated into a donnybrook that had to be called off early in the third period because almost all Breakers players had been kicked out.

St. Louis Blues defenseman Colton Parayko has invoked his no-movement clause to prevent a trade to the Buffalo Sabres, a league source confirmed to ESPN.

The Sabres had a trade agreement in place with the Blues to acquire Paryko but only if the defenseman waived his no-movement clause, sources had told ESPN on Wednesday.

Parayko, 32, is in the fourth year of an eight-year, $32 million contract. He recently competed for Team Canada at the Olympics and was a key member of St. Louis' 2019 Stanley Cup-winning team.

The politics of professional athletes are a clear reflection of league demographics.

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A spokesperson for the team told NBC News' Monica Alba that the team, which won the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, was "sincerely grateful" for the recognition, but the players are unable to attend "due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments."

No disrespect to Canada, I'm a firm believer that the USA defeating them is a huge fluke and robs Canada of truly accomplishing what they're capable of. I've spent the last hour in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire Olympics watching Team Canada play great hockey it's just not fair.

If Canada loses again I will face that the USA deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to Canada and the Olympics.

I'm in the UK so have been forced to watch the Olympic hockey on the BBC so far. Not only do they have a tendency to cut off the first 5 minutes of a period (so they can show highlights from elsewhere) but the commentators are D tier at best and there's no discussion panel between the periods.

Anyone have any links to where I can get some ahem perfectly fine and legal streams? Preferably Sportsnet (for Bieksa).

Unfortunate play and of course Tom Wilson was involved. This is exactly what the NHL feared - hopefully it’s the only significant injury to come out of the tournament.

I'm watching the Canada v Czech game now and it's amazing but a lot is going over my head. I'm missing a lot of plays cos it's too elite. Any tips for trying to follow it?

LadyButterfly 6 months ago: zero interest in sport, and British so zero interest in ice hockey

Then after seeing the kings live in November... LadyButterfly now: pay 20 quid a month for Dazn, and just paid 31 quid for TnT and 14 quid for a tv licence to watch Olympic hockey this month, have booked the men's olympic final off work, watch several games a week, am going to see a local team live soon and have strong feelings about the kings inability to score on powerplay. AND I have a game day sweatshirt!

I genuinely don't know how this happened

I'm a recent convert and am now obsessed with hockey, but still learning. Do you have any olympic hockey predictions?

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Police in Nova Scotia say a fourth youth hockey player has been arrested in connection to a sexual assault investigation that involves alleged hazing incidents and a team in the Truro area.

Colchester County District RCMP said the youth was arrested on Thursday, and is facing charges of sexual assault and assault with choking.

Three other young players were arrested on similar charges earlier this week, after a youth reported being assaulted during a private hockey team gathering in Colchester County in October 2025.

In a news release Thursday, police said that report spurred an immediate investigation, which involved getting statements from multiple witnesses.

Staff Sgt. Marc Rose said police have since determined there were multiple alleged incidents at different times and locations in Nova Scotia.