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Newfoundland Rogues continue winning at home with series win over Sudbury
The Newfoundland Rogues kicked their last regular season homestand of the season the right way over the weekend. The Rogues (18-13) won two of three games over the Sudbury Five at the Mary Brown’s Centre in St. John’s. The wins pushed ...
The 2024 Don Johnson Memorial Cup is ready to go in Mount Pearl
The best in Atlantic Canadian Junior B hockey are set to show their stuff in Mount Pearl this week. On Tuesday, April 23, the 2024 Don Johnson Memorial Cup gets underway at the Glacier in Mount Pearl and there is hope this year will be the end of ...
Discovery Collegiate girls and Holy Heart boys claim Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial tournament banners
The Holy Heart Highlanders boys’ team and the Discovery Collegiate Destroyers girls’ squad emerged as winners in the 2024 Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial High School Hockey Tournaments. Heart bested the Gonzaga Vikings 5-3 on Sunday, April 21, ...
NLL: Thunderbirds playoff ready? Record crowd watches Halifax defeat Colorado in regular-season finale
For a regular-season finale against a non-playoff team, the Halifax Thunderbirds’ Saturday night tilt at a sold-out Scotiabank Centre sure had the feel of a playoff game. A Thunderbirds record crowd of 10,595 witnessed timely goals, stellar ...
CEBL's Calgary Surge install St. F.X. bench boss Tyrell Vernon as new head coach
The Calgary Surge got their guy. In short order, too. Needing to fill its sudden head-coaching vacancy, the Canadian Elite Basketball League club has turned to St. Francis Xavier X-Men bench boss Tyrell Vernon. “Really excited, and a great ...
Battle of The Pearl
It was the battle of ‘da Pearl over the noon-hour on Saturday, April 20, 2024, as the Mount Pearl Senior High School Huskies took on their neighbouring Patriot friends from O’Donel High School in the 2024 Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial Hockey ...
Underdog Northern Selects head to nationals with unflinching belief
There is no escaping the annual David vs. Goliath dynamic for Atlantic Canada's representative at the Esso Cup. The national under-18 women's hockey championship brings together the six best teams from across the country and the Eastern reps always ...
'The magic of the cup': New N.L. Cup soccer tournament promises to inject drama into provincial game
It didn’t have quite the spectacle of a FIFA World Cup draw, but the beginning of the inaugural N.L. Cup still felt like a big deal. At King George V Park in St. John’s on April 17, the 15 teams involved in the new single-elimination tournament saw ...
Wanderers fall 2-0 to Vancouver FC, lose second straight to start CPL season in B.C.
The Halifax Wanderers certainly hope it won’t take until the second week of June to post their first victory of the Canadian Premier League season. The Wanderers dropped their second straight game to start the 2024 campaign on Thursday night, a 2-0 ...
Antigonish Bulldogs win third straight NSJHL title in double overtime
The Antigonish Bulldogs captured their third consecutive Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Championship title in dramatic fashion Wednesday night in Bridgewater. Nick Marshall scored on a wraparound 8:55 into double overtime to lift the Bulldogs to a ...