Hockey
Czechia sent back-to-back champion Canada home early from World Junior Championship
February 1, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Team Canada made an earlier than expected exit from the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championships, hosted from December 26–January 5 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Canada finished second in the Group A standings during the preliminaries — suffering their only loss to the tournament’s host nation 2–0, who finished at the top of the Group A standings. Canada earned high-scoring results in their three preliminary wins, beating Finland 5–2, Germany 6–3, and shutting out Latvia 10–0. Canada entered this year’s tournament as the reigning champions, winning gold in 2022 and 2023. In last year’s gold medal game,…
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Connect the Lingo
February 1, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer ________ league was a baseball term used to refer to minor league baseball teams in rural towns, but is more often used to describe a lack of professional standards and etiquette. A goalie in hockey…
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Top 10 Canadian sports moments of 2023
January 7, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer January 5: Canada wins World Junior gold, Bedard MVP Arizona Coyote prospect Dylan Guenther lifts Canada to a 3–2 victory in OT against Czechia to win gold at the World Junior Hockey Championship. 17-year-old Connor…
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Parents at games are too much
March 14, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor I’ve never seen as many physical altercations as I have at a children’s hockey game. You would think parents would be supportive of their children, perhaps even a bit concerned for their safety when they’re…
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The history of the Coloured Hockey League
March 3, 2023By: Simran Sarai, Sports Writer There’s hardly a Canadian who hasn’t heard of the National Hockey League (NHL) at least once in their life. Hockey, the official winter sport of Canada, has been popular across the country since its inception…
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February 1, 2023By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer Word Bank: 20, bullet, pick six, pommel horse, Christine Sinclair, skeleton, Peter Forsberg, football, 10, kiss and cry This athlete holds the record for most international goals. What sport is known as a “game of…
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Memorable Moments: Canada wins gold at home
January 9, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Do you know where you were during the golden goal? 16.7 million people do. February 28, 2010. It’s the 2010 Winter Olympics, hosted in Vancouver. Canada and the US are deadlocked at two in the…
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Stop shaming women for liking sports
November 2, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor I was called a cougar this past weekend by a group of men at a hockey rink. Yes, a group of fully-grown men who clearly lack any semblance of human decency or respect for women.…
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How I fell in love with hockey
October 23, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor I didn’t fall in love with hockey until I was 13. It was a couple months after the 2016 National Hockey League (NHL) draft, and the Toronto Maple Leafs number one pick, Auston Matthews, was…
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April 1, 2022By: Greg Makarov, Sports Writer Word Bank: over and back, love, yard sale, brace, technical fall, direct free kick, ace, Calder, face wash, drop shot When a soccer player scores twice in a game When an opposing player/team fails to…
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