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The Edmonton Oilers downed the visiting Los Angeles Kings by a score of 7-4 Monday night to take Game 1 of the best-of-seven series.

Auston Matthews scored the winner in the third period and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Monday to even their first-round playoff series 1-1.

CBC Sports' daily newsletter compiles the top performances by Canada's summer Olympic and Paralympic athletes over the weekend.

Allison Sandmeyer-Graves always suspected there was a large fan base for women's sports in Canada, and now she has proof.

In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency signed off on clearing 23 Chinese swimmers of intentionally taking performance enhancers, that country's government contributed nearly $2 million US above its yearly requirements to WADA programs.

Canada's Kadriana and Colton Lott remained undefeated at the world mixed doubles curling championship with a 6-4 win over South Korea on Monday in Östersund, Sweden.

Miragh Bitove is blazing a trail as the first woman to become a keeper of the Stanley Cup. The mother of three — two boys and a girl — doesn't want special treatment. She also understands the attention in a sport that, while beginning to change, has been dominated by men for the better part of a century.

Canadian men's national-team head coach Jordi Fernandez was hired Monday as coach of the Brooklyn Nets, but Canada Basketball says the new job won't affect the Spaniard's place at the Paris Olympics.

Two-time Olympian Lisa Weagle will return to the four-player game next season as the lead for the Laval, Que.,-based team skipped by Laurie St-Georges.

There is no denying that environment and sport are inextricably linked. We play soccer on green fields, we swim in open water, we run through parks and trails. We rely on a healthy planet for recreation and elite sport. 

An Ottawa man nationally recognized last year for training hundreds of other badminton coaches is being mourned by his colleagues after he was shot to death Friday night.

The Vancouver Canucks mounted a third-period comeback to take Game 1 of their best-of-seven series against the Nashville Predators 4-2, thanks to two goals from forward Dakota Joshua.

Captain Adam Lowry and Kyle Connor each scored twice to propel the Winnipeg Jets to a 7-6 Game 1 first-round playoff victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.

With four Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs for the first time in 30 years, fans hope those odds mean the Stanley Cup could be coming north again.

Jets fans came out in droves to show support for their team as they open their playoff campaign.

Nelly Korda etched her name in the LPGA Tour record books Sunday, winning her record-tying fifth straight tournament with a two-stroke victory in the Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, for her second major title.

Nikola Jokić is one step closer to winning a third MVP award in the last four seasons. Victor Wembanyama is surely on his way to a trophy — or maybe two. Hamilton, Ont., native Shai Gilgeous-Alexander might get a couple of his own as well.