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TORONTO — The difficulty of decreasing Fred VanVleet's minutes continues to be on display as the season wears on. After tying for the league lead in minutes (37.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames didn't let another game against the New York Islanders get away from them. Leading 3-1 after two periods, which the Flames also did in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Islanders at USB Arena on Nov.

SUDBURY, Ont. — David Goyette had a goal and three assists to power the Sudbury Wolves past the Oshawa Generals 6-4 in the Ontario Hockey Leauge on Friday night.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Markus Vidicek scored twice as the Halifax Mooseheads defeated the Saint John Sea Dogs 6-4 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action Friday night.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Viktor Lodin and Egor Sokolov scored shootout goals to lead the Belleville Senators past the Syracuse Crunch 3-2 in an American Hockey League contest Friday night.

LAVAL, Que. — Jansen Harkins scored at 2:46 of overtime to earn the Manitoba Moose a 5-4 American Hockey League win over the Laval Rocket on Friday night.

ST. LOUIS — Forwards Duncan McGuire of Creighton and Michelle Cooper of Duke won the MAC Hermann Trophy on Friday, the top individual honour in NCAA Div. I soccer.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers are cutting ties with pitcher Trevor Bauer, whose unprecedented 324-game suspension over sexual misconduct allegations was reduced two weeks ago , allowing him to resume his career with the start of the new

Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz pulled out of the Australian Open on Friday because of an injured right leg. The 19-year-old from Spain wrote on social media that he got hurt “through a chance, unnatural movement in training.” Alcaraz won the U.S.

HOUSTON — Canadian goalkeeper Devon Kerr is back with the Houston Dash The 25-year-old from Barrie, Ont., spent the last two NWSL seasons as a backup with the Washington Spirit, who won the league title in 2021.