National Sports

EDMONTON — Reflecting on his first four-goal game in the NHL, Connor McDavid says that just hours before faceoff he was texting with a childhood buddy who served up some tips on offence for the reigning Art Ross Trophy winner.

TORONTO — A former Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player who lost a promotional gig after nude pictures of himself surfaced on the internet had his breach-of-contract award upheld on Tuesday.

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen was back on the ice for practice Tuesday, one day after being struck in the head and leaving a game against Anaheim.

BOSTON — Retired Canadian women's hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser will donate her brain to concussion research after her death.

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TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts re-signed American defensive lineman Ken Bishop through the 2018 season Tuesday. Bishop, 29, was limited to five games _ starting four _ last season due to injury.

RIGA, Latvia — Kevin Poulin is giving GM Sean Burke and the rest of the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team hierarchy plenty to ponder. The Montreal native stopped 29 shots to lead Canada to a 2-0 pre-Olympic win over Belarus on Tuesday.

The Winter Olympics get under way later this week in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It's a long, expensive trip to see the games in person, so most Canadians will be watching from afar.

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea's head of state is coming to archrival South Korea, but it's the wrong one — at least if the goal is peace on the volatile Korean Peninsula.

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — A giant national flag. A smiling angel. The dictator's pop diva. And a dozen women added to a South Korean hockey team to form the Koreas' first-ever joint Olympic team.