National Sports

VANCOUVER — J.T. Miller believes he and his Vancouver Canucks teammates raised the bar for themselves on Thursday night.

Thursday's Scores NHL Vancouver 7, Calgary 1 Toronto 3, Minnesota 1 Columbus 6, Florida 3 New Jersey 6, Pittsburgh 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 1 Nashville 2, Dallas 1 Boston 3, Seattle 2 San Jose 4, N.Y.

TORONTO — Little has gone right for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the past week. The team was stuck in a slump with a three-game losing streak.

SAINT CATHARINES, Ont. — Rookie defenceman Lucas Littlejohn scored two goals in his OHL debut as the Niagara Ice Dogs beat the North Bay Battalion 6-3 on Thursday night.

Svi Mykhailiuk of the Toronto Raptors has condemned the Russian attack on his Ukrainian homeland.

The Calgary Stampeders re-signed Canadian defensive lineman Connor McGough on Thursday. The six-foot-one, 249-pound McGough, of Medicine Hat, Alta., originally signed with Calgary on Feb.

He's put Canada's longest-running syndicated fishing show to bed, but Bob Izumi isn't retiring. Last week, Izumi announced his "Real Fishing Show" had come to an end after 38 seasons.

CONCACAF's Men’s U-20 Championship, originally scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic, will take place this summer in Honduras and determine the region’s representatives for both the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup and 2024 Summer Olympics The

OTTAWA — Atletico Ottawa has named Spain's Carlos Gonzalez its new coach on a two-year contact. The 35-year-old succeeds fellow Spaniard Mista, the Canadian Premier League team's inaugural coach whose full name is Miguel Angel Ferrer Martinez.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Canada's Denis Shapovalov advanced to the semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over Lithuanian qualifier Ricardas Berankis on Thursday.