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BUFFALO – ASSOCIATED PRESS T.J. Oshie had a goal and two assists in Peter Laviolette’s debut as Washington’s coach and the Capitals opened the season with a 6-4 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night. Making his NHL debut, former Lethbridge Hurricanes captain Dylan Cozens posted an assist on Buffalo’s second goal for his first [...] Read More »

Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald sports@lethbridgeherald.com Welcome to the 2020 edition of the Lethbridge Hurricanes, the year that was. Or was it the year that wasn’t? Whatever it was, it featured double gold medals at the World Junior Championship, the return of a familiar face at the trade deadline and a Canes defenceman putting up league-leading [...] Read More »

Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald sports@lethbridgeherald.com So how strong was the Lethbridge College Kodiaks men’s volleyball team last year? Put it this way, not even a pandemic could stop them. In 2020, program history was made as a result as the Kodiaks Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference silver medal – earned on home court at the Val [...] Read More »

Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald sports@lethbridgeherald.com In a COVID-19-shortened 2020, it was just as much about what the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns did on the court as much as they did off of it. As the calendar turned to March and with some sports still going, the pandemic sent Horns athletics to the locker room a [...] Read More »

Andrew Doty is taking his career to Vegas. The Lethbridge Hurricanes announced Monday that Doty, one of the team’s assistant coaches, is on the move south of the border, hired as the Video Coach for the Henderson Silver Knights, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, in their inaugural season. And [...] Read More »

Sunday’s Games (All Times Eastern) NHL Pittsburgh 4 Washington 3 (SO) Florida 5 Chicago 2 Dallas at Tampa Bay, ppd. — NBA New York 105 Boston 75 Chicago 117 Dallas 101 Utah 109 Denver 105 New Orleans 128 Sacramento 123 L.A. Clippers 129 Indiana 96 Philadelphia at Oklahoma City, ppd. Cleveland at Washington, ppd. — [...] Read More »

NEW ORLEANS – Tom Brady’s best game in three tries against New Orleans kept the Buccaneers moving on in the NFL playoffs, and has Saints quarterback Drew Brees headed home – perhaps for good. Brady and the Bucs’ offence turned three Saints turnovers, including two interceptions of Brees, into touchdowns, and Tampa Bay beat New [...] Read More »

HONOLULU – Three shots behind with six holes to play, Kevin Na birdied three straight holes and finished with an up-and-down birdie from behind the 18th green for a 5-under 65 and a one-shot victory in the Sony Open. Na won for the fifth time in his PGA Tour career, and this one looked unlikely [...] Read More »

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Kansas City Chiefs had lost Patrick Mahomes to a concussion and were in danger of losing the game. Then their defence and Chad Henne – their defence and Chad Henne?! – kept their Super Bowl hopes alive with a 22-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns that advanced them to the [...] Read More »

Roman Sadovsky won the virtual Skate Canada Challenge, his only competition in a season erased by COVID-19. The 21-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., the leader after the short program, landed a pair of quad jumps in his free skate to Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars,” scoring 262.01 points overall. Nam Nguyen of Toronto was second with 256.43, [...] Read More »