National Sports

EDINBURG, Texas — With Christine Sinclair watching from the bench, Jordyn Huitema and Janine Beckie proved Saturday there are still plenty of goals left in Canada.

CALGARY — Mikael Kingsbury feels supremely confident racing moguls in Calgary. He parlayed that self-assurance into a 60th career World Cup victory Saturday. The reigning Olympic and world men's champion from Deux-Montagnes, Que.

MILWAUKEE — Canadians Jess Neufeld and Jake Weidemann earned the first international medals of their speed skating careers on Saturday, capturing silver and bronze in the men's 1500-metre event at the ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships.

MONTREAL — For the first time this season the Florida Panthers were held off the scoreboard.

NEW YORK — Quinn Hughes scored twice, including his eighth of the season 42 seconds into overtime, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the New York Islanders 4-3 on Saturday for their fifth consecutive victory. J.T.

Liverpool is setting standards that have never been seen in English soccer.

Toronto Raptors forward Norman Powell is "out indefinitely" with a broken finger, the team announced Saturday.

Former Toronto Blue Jays star infielder Tony Fernandez is in critical condition in a Florida hospital due to complications from a kidney disease.

Erica Wiebe loves to live outside her comfort zone. That appetite for the unknown will soon have the Olympic wrestling champion strolling the storied halls of Harvard University as a business student.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens assigned 2018 first-round draft pick Jesperi Kotkaniemi to the American Hockey League's Laval Rocket on Saturday. Kotkaniemi has six goals and two assists through 36 games this season for Montreal.