CALGARY — The Canadian team attempting to reclaim a world para hockey championship on home ice was announced Thursday by Hockey Canada. Canada is the host team of the 2024 world championship May 4-12 in Calgary. The 17-player roster features a dozen returners from the squad that took silver in 2023 in Moose Jaw, Sask. Canada lost 6-1 to the United States in the final after also falling 5-1 and 3-2 in overtime to the Americans in the 2021 and 2019 finals, respectively, in Ostrava, Czechia. Canada
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars have quite an age gap. Top goal scorer Wyatt Johnston is only 20 years old, and was a teenager for most of the playoffs last year. On the other end for the Western Conference's top-seeded team is Joe Pavelski, who will turn 40 this summer and has more points this season than the kid who again is living in his house. “Joe's not an old 39-year-old. He stays pretty young with the youth in this group," six-time All-Star forward Tyler Seguin said. “It's just cool becaus
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Rod Brind'Amour remembers those early days as a first-time head coach for a franchise that had gone nearly a decade without reaching the playoffs. He realizes now just how much he didn't know back then. “But I didn't know I didn't know it," he said, “and that was big because I didn't have any doubt.” And there hasn't been any doubt since, either, about Brind'Amour becoming one of the league's top coaches. He's now 6-for-6 in getting the Carolina Hurricanes to the postsea