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3 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Sonny Sachdeva

Jason Bright can still remember Connor McDavid before he was Connor McDavid, before the generational phenom was galloping down big-league sheets, clad in Edmonton Oilers colours, upending NHL history. Before the records and the trophies and the back-to-back Stanley Cup Final runs, McDavid was just another young hopeful in Newmarket, Ont., trying to hone his game. “He grew up on the street that we live on,” says Bright, a Newmarket hockey dad whose four kids all grew up immersed in the game, too.

3 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Adam Vingan

En route to winning their respective conferences, Connor McDavid and Aleksander Barkov delivered signature moments. As the Edmonton Oilers clung to a 3-2 lead against the Dallas Stars in Game 5 of the Western Final, McDavid turned on the afterburners, reaching a top speed of 22.1 m.p.h. on his breakaway goal. “That was a golden example of a big player making a big play in a big moment,” Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse told reporters afterward.

4 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Adam Stanley

ALTON, Ont. – Bob MacIntyre authored one of the finest stories of 2024 on the PGA Tour schedule when he fell into the arms of his father, tears in his eyes and lifelong dream achieved a year ago. Now he’s hoping for a second chapter. The affable Scotsman who is quick with a smile comes into the RBC Canadian Open as the defending champion, looking to become the first golfer to go back-to-back since Jhonattan Vegas in 2016-17.

4 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Mike Koreen

PARIS — Coco Gauff might have earned her fifth consecutive trip to the French Open quarterfinals with a straight-set victory Monday, but she still is catching flak because she forgot to bring her racquet to a match earlier in the tournament. The No. 2-seeded Gauff, who won the 2023 U.S. Open and was the runner-up in Paris in 2022, has been engaging in a bit of back-and-forth with another American and Roland-Garros quarterfinalist, Frances Tiafoe, over the equipment blunder.

4 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Josh Beneteau

It's one of the most enduring visuals in hockey history. Joe Sakic, passing the Stanley Cup to Ray Bourque, who, at age 41, was finally able to celebrate a championship for the first time in his Hall of Fame career. It took Bourque 22 seasons to achieve the ultimate reward, and his Colorado Avalanche captain Sakic made sure he didn't have to wait any longer to have his moment with the Cup.