National Sports

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded forward Nick Ritchie and a conditional pick to the Arizona Coyotes for forward Ryan Dzingel and defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin.

BEIJING — Canada's Justin Kripps has won bronze in the four-man bobsled at the Beijing Olympics. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs continue to struggle at home against the St. Louis Blues.

OTTAWA — David Pastrnak had gone pointless in his last four games and was held off the scoresheet for three periods in Ottawa Saturday against the Senators, and it wasn’t sitting well. How quickly things can change for the better.

WINNIPEG — Connor McDavid was feeling pretty good in warmup and it carried over into game action against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

AUSTIN, Texas — Teenage forward Hugo Mbongue scored in the 89th minute to give Toronto FC a 1-1 tie with Sporting Kansas City in MLS pre-season play Saturday.

LAS VEGAS — Alberta bantamweight Chad (The Monster) Anheliger won his UFC debut Saturday, stopping American Jesse (Sui Generis) Strader in the third round on the undercard of a UFC Fight Night card.

METAIRIE, La. — Sam Malcolm kicked 14 points and Brock Webster scored a try in his debut as the Toronto Arrows rallied to defeat the NOLA Gold 24-23 Saturday for their first win of the Major League rugby season.

Marie-Philip Poulin has no plans to join the ECHL after leading Canada's women's hockey team to a gold medal in Beijing. Poulin had two goals, including the game-winner, Thursday as Canada beat the United States in the championship game.

Olympic champion Canada is looking for a more balanced performance against third-ranked Germany on Sunday after an uneven showing in its opening 1-1 tie with England at the Arnold Clark Cup.