Leafs lose McCabe, contest
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Saku Koivu scored twice and Carey Price made 28 saves to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-1 win over visiting Toronto last night.
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Tom Glavine is struggling after 21 exceptional major leauge seasons and The Mets, who have lost 14 of their last 18 games, are in a free fall that is threatening to redefine their season.
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The Mets took two from the Rockies but lost second baseman Joe McEwing in a take-out slide, which didn't go unnoticed by reliever Braden Looper.
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Vince Carter will be shooting for the nets in a new jersey now. Friday, Toronto lost &quot;Vincanity&quot; to New Jersey for Zo, A-Will, E-Will and a couple picks.
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Picked-up pieces while remembering that Len Bias died 21 years ago yesterday: Peter Chiarelli underwhelms us. His first coaching hire was a dud, and now he's apparently going to sell us on Claude Julien when most Bruins fans would prefer Mike Milbury. Charlie Jacobs underwhelms us, also. There appears to be a conscious effort to purge all things Harry Sinden ...
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The Montreal Canadiens' potent power-play unit scored enough to hold off Toronto's comeback bid. Sheldon Souray had his team-leading 22nd goal and Montreal got three goals with the man advantage in a 5-4 victory over the Maple Leafs on Monday night.
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Veteran Jay McKee is out with a seriously infected cut on his shin, leaving the Buffalo Sabres down four regular defensemen for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final Thursday against Carolina. The winner of tonight&#039;s game will face the Edmonton Oilers for the Stanley Cup starting Monday.
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PITTSBURGH - General manager Peter Chiarelli , his Bruins now officially on holiday break, said yesterday that he continues to search for a trade or two. The recent losses of winger Glen Murray (hip pointer) and defensemen Aaron Ward (fractured left foot) and Andrew Alberts (postconcussion syndrome symptoms) have only added motivation to his search.
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Chris Pronger single-handedly set the NHL general managers' meeting agenda, making blows to the head the primary topic discussed Monday. A day after the Anaheim defenseman got a one-game suspension for an elbow to the head that knocked out Ottawa's Dean McAmmond, the general managers reached a consensus &#151; but no resolution &#151; in an attempt to eliminate such checks to players in defenseless positions.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs fired general manager John Ferguson on Tuesday, replacing him with former GM Cliff Fletcher on an interim basis.
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Robert Esche&#39;s tone over the past three months has slowly gone from angry to sad. On Tuesday -- after the National Hockey League owners and players each rejected a proposal for a new collective bargaining
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Scott Clemmensen had a memorable first start for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Clemmensen stopped Martin St. Louis and Brad Richards in a shootout to help the Maple Leafs to a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning last night.
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Frederic Cassivi finishes with 28 saves, but his admirable error isnÃÂ¿t rewarded as the Capitals go out with a whimper, 3-0, to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Wade Redden took off his practice gear unsure of when he'd have a chance to put it on again. His injured shoulder wouldn't allow him to play for Canada in the World Cup of Hockey championship on Tuesday night. The lack of a collective bargaining agreement between NHL players and owners figures to keep the Ottawa defenseman off the ice much longer.
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MALELANE - The story of yesterday&#39;s second round at the Dunhill golf Championship was more about the losers than the winners. After shooting a five- under-par 67 on Thursday to lie one shot off leader Bruce
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At this stage of the year, everything can be used as a lesson. For instance, how the Bruins respond to being without defensemen Zdeno Chara (sore hamstring) and Milan Jurcina (elbow contusion) and top-line wing Marco Sturm (chest cold).
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Tom Glavine aced this playoff test. Glavine pitched eight sharp innings and the newly crowned NL East champion New York Mets, fielding a makeshift lineup for a game that mattered little to them, rallied to beat the fading Florida Marlins 3-2 Tuesday night.