PWHL Minnesota is undergoing a last-minute switch-up. The team announced on Wednesday that head coach Charlie Burggraf was stepping down exactly one week before the franchise’s first-ever game on Jan. 3 in Boston. CBC | Sports News
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PWHL teams release final 23-player rosters ahead of Jan. 1 season opener
Teams made final cuts, reduced rosters to 23 players on contract and 3 reserve players, following pre-season games in Utica, N.Y. last week. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Grondin wins gold at World Cup snowboard cross season opener
Canada’s Éliot Grondin raced his way to a gold medal on Sunday at the season-opening World Cup snowboard cross event in Les Deux Alpes, France. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian women’s wheelchair basketballers score statement win, honour fallen teammate in Parapan Am opener
The Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball began its defence of Parapan Am Games gold with an emphatic 61-44 victory over Brazil on Saturday afternoon in Santiago, Chile. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Ivanie Blondin wins mass start gold at speed skating World Cup opener
Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin kicked off the World Cup long-track speed skating season with a gold medal in the mass start in Obihiro, Japan on Friday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian women’s hockey team stymied by Frankel as U.S. wins Rivalry Series opener
Hilary Knight had a goal and an assist, Aerin Frankel stopped 35 shots and the United States beat Canada 3-1 in the opener of the Rivalry Series on Wednesday night in Tempe, Ariz. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Northwest Territories’ Jamie Koe wins opener at Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
Jamie Koe, who has represented the Northwest Territories on the big stage numerous times, opened the 2023 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship on Sunday morning at Swift Current Curling Club with an 8-7 victory over Peter Van Strien’s team from Iqaluit, Nunavut. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Einarson secures win in Pan Continental Curling Championships opener
Canada’s Kerri Einarson opened the Pan Continental Curling Championships on Sunday with a 9-2 rout of Cynthia Lu’s Chinese Taipei team at the Kelowna Curling Club in B.C. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Gut-Behrami clinches narrow win in giant slalom World Cup opener
Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami narrowly won the women’s giant slalom, edging out Italy’s Federica Brignone, while the favourite, U.S. Mikaela Shiffrin, finished sixth at the opening event of the 2022-23 World Cup season in Soelden, Austria, on Saturday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Garcia hits walk-off homer in 11th to lift Rangers over Diamondbacks in World Series opener
Adolis Garcia hit a game-winning homer in the 11th inning after Corey Seager’s tying two-run shot in the ninth, and the Texas Rangers opened this surprise World Series of wild-card teams with a 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night in Arlington, Texas. CBC | Sports News
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