Cole Fortner

2 weeks ago | winnipeg.citynews.ca | Cole Fortner

Mark Scheifele is known as a "hockey nerd," whose understanding of the game has turned him into an elite NHL player. But the Winnipeg Jets star centre isn't losing sleep trying to figure out why his league-leading team is being snubbed by betting sites as Stanley Cup favourites. Many popular outlets don't even have the Jets (53-21-4) in the top-four. "I don't really think about it at all," Scheifele told The Canadian Press before Monday's game against the red-hot St. Louis Blues.

2 weeks ago | montreal.citynews.ca | Cole Fortner

The Montreal Canadiens are hot at the right time. Montreal is on the verge of clinching its first playoff spot since its 2021 run to the Stanley Cup Final after beating the visiting Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Tuesday. The Canadiens, who have won six in a row, are now eight points ahead of the Red Wings, Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Rangers for the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

2 weeks ago | winnipeg.citynews.ca | Cole Fortner

Chaz Lucius, a first-round draft choice of the Winnipeg Jets in 2021, announced his retirement from hockey on Tuesday after recently being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. In a statement, Lucius said EDS is "a hereditary disorder that affects the connective tissue that stabilizes and supports the joints and organs throughout the body.""As I struggled with incurring and recovering from various joints injuries over the last several year, I thought I was just unlucky," he said.

2 weeks ago | winnipeg.citynews.ca | Cole Fortner

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to death while trying to cross the Canadian border into Minnesota during a blizzard in 2022. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim declined to set aside the guilty verdicts that a jury returned last November against Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Anthony Shand.

2 weeks ago | winnipeg.citynews.ca | Cole Fortner

The Manitoba government says adding officers to a police emergency team will help address crime. Justice Minister Matt Wiebe says $3.3 million is being directed to double the RCMP emergency response team's current roster of nine full-time positions. The money is part of a $5.3-million plan announced in last month's budget to boost policing in rural and northern areas.