National Sports

NAGANO, Japan — Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin won her fifth straight gold medal on the World Cup speedskating circuit on Saturday, this time in the 3,000-metre event.

It's Goodbye HFX Wanderers FC for Elton John. The Canadian Premier League club says John, the soccer player not the rock star, is one of 16 veterans of its inaugural season who won't be back in 2020.

Friday's Games NHL Vegas 3 Dallas 2 (OT) Colorado 3 New Jersey 1 --- AHL Belleville 5 Rockford 2 Bridgeport 4 Utica 3 Charlotte 3 Syracuse 2 Cleveland 4 WB/Scranton 0 Springfield 5 Binghamton 3 Hartford 4 Lehigh Valley 0 Rochester 3 Laval 2 Milwaukee

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. — Calgary's Kevin Koe clinched a playoff berth at the National with a 6-3 victory over Brad Gushue of St. John's, N.L., on Friday night in the final round-robin game for both teams.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Niagara IceDogs goaltender Tucker Tynan says he's looking forward to returning from a scary injury he sustained Thursday night during an Ontario Hockey League game against the London Knights.

Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom will miss the rest of the season after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a cancerous tumour that grows in the bones or in the tissue around bones.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Russia swept the gold medals at a World Cup skeleton race at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Friday, with Elena Nikitina’s winning margin in the women’s race the largest on tour in nearly three years.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Canada's Rachel Karker won the bronze medal at a ski halfpipe World Cup on Friday while fellow Canadian Noah Bowman finished third in the men's event. The 22-year-old Karker from Guelph, Ont., scored 81.

WINNIPEG — Wade Miller is proud the "Canadian Mafia" will continue running the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

TORONTO — Ryan Dinwiddie had the head coaching bug back when he was a CFL quarterback, regularly drawing up plays for consideration by his bosses at the time. Now he's getting a chance to do the real thing with the Toronto Argonauts.