National Sports

MONTREAL — Juraj Slafkovsky remembers scoring a hat trick where the only person who threw their hat on the ice was his dad. His experience Tuesday night was quite the opposite. “I've never scored a hat trick like this,” he said.

TORONTO — At six-foot-three, Javon Freeman-Liberty is the perfect height to be a point guard but until he joined the Toronto Raptors, he never really played the position. That's quickly changing.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Auston Matthews knows that his teammates and most of the people in Toronto want him to score 70 goals this season and become only the ninth player in NHL history to accomplish the feat.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays picked up a few firsts in a 5-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night that brought them back to the .500 mark.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Canada leaves the SheBelieves Cup with a runner-up medal and likely nightmares involving Alyssa Naeher. The veteran U.S.

UTICA, N.Y. — Natalie Mlynkova had three goals and an assist as Czechia wrapped up third place in Group A at the world women's hockey championship with a 6-1 win over Switzerland on Tuesday.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Anthony Stolarz skated out of his net, controlled a loose puck and set up the opening goal of the night for Florida. And then he turned that goal into the eventual game-winner.

ERIE, Pa. — Luke Ellinas scored 5:38 into overtime as the visiting Kitchener Rangers edged the Erie Otters 4-3 to win their first round Ontario Hockey League playoff series in six games.

SHERBROOKE, Que.

TORONTO — Jennifer Jones's final tournament as part of a four-player team got off to a rocky start with a six-end 9-2 loss to Sweden's Isabella Wrana on Tuesday at the Grand Slam of Curling's season-ending Players' Championship.