National Sports

VANCOUVER — Maxime Comtois' teammates were stunned on Boxing Day when he started screaming in the tunnel before Team Canada took the ice in their first game of the world junior hockey championship. "I didn't know what was going on.

TORONTO — Fred VanVleet doesn't believe in New Years resolutions. If he did, playing with a greater sense of urgency in 2019 would be one.

DAVOS, Switzerland — Jaakko Rissanen scored in the eighth round of a shootout to give Finnish club KalPa Kuopio a 2-1 win over three-time defending champion Canada in the final of the Spengler Cup on Monday.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Figure skating champion Kaetlyn Osmond will be receiving the highest honour in her home province — the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. Osmond, 23, left Marystown, N.L.

Ted Urness, a six-time CFL all-star offensive lineman who helped the Saskatchewan Roughriders win the 1966 Grey Cup, has died at 81. The Roughriders announced Urness's death in a Twitter post on Sunday. A cause of death was not given.

While the NHL turns its attentions to the outdoor Winter Classic, video gamers have been playing outdoors for some time. In fact the "NHL 19" slogan is "From the pond to the pros.

Sunday's Games World Junior Hockey Championship At Vancouver Russia 7 Switzerland 4 At Victoria B.C.

Sunday's Games World Junior Hockey Championship At Vancouver Russia 7 Switzerland 4 At Victoria B.C.

BRISBANE, Australia — Canada's Milos Roanic and Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov ensured no slip ups in their final outing of 2018 by having straight set victories in their respective first round matches at the Brisbane International on Monday.

VANCOUVER — Switzerland had numerous chances to upset Russia at the world juniors and couldn't get it done.