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• Chilliwack judge finds charter breach in assault suspect's arrest – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  31-10-2022 23:40 via news.google.com
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• Raptors’ all-star guard Fred VanVleet listed as out against Atlanta

  31-10-2022 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Raptors guard Fred VanVleet was listed as unavailable for Toronto’s game Monday against the visiting Atlanta Hawks.Coach Nick Nurse said VanVleet didn’t participate in Sunday’s practice due to lower back tightness.Nurse said rookie Christian Koloko would be slotted into the starting lineup.
  VanVleet struggled in Friday’s 112-90 loss to Philadelphia, shooting 0-for-11, including eight missed three-pointers. His single point came on a free throw.
  The 28-year
  
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• Saskatchewan premier apologizes after killer invited to throne speech – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 23:30 via news.google.com
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• Delegation returns from Haiti amid high expectations for Canadian leadership – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 23:30 via news.google.com
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• Vancouver Canucks, Rogers Communications sign 10-year broadcast rights deal

  31-10-2022 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Sportsnet will continue to broadcast Vancouver Canucks games on TV and radio for another decade. 
  The Canucks and Rogers Communications, which owns Sportsnet, announced Monday that the two sides have agreed to a 10-year deal that will last through the 2032-33 season. 
  The agreement renews a deal that sees every Canucks game aired on Sportsnet’s TV channels and on Vancouver radio station Sportsnet 650.
  The deal also includes the naming rights to the Canucks&rsquo
  
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• Decision at head coach among many off-season tasks facing Redblacks GM Burke

  31-10-2022 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — After three straight seasons of falling far short of expectations, Ottawa Redblacks general manager Shawn Burke will have his work cut out for him this off-season.
  Ottawa finished the 2022 season 4-14-0 and an embarrassing 0-9 at TD Place. When a season concludes with just four wins, a fired head coach and a winless home record, there are bound to be changes.
  One of Burke’s many tasks will be deciding who should be at the helm of for this next edition of the Redblacks. Paul
  
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• Alleged thief gives up stolen wallet after confrontation at Chilliwack store - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 22:45 via news.google.com
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• Ukraine tracking thousands of war crimes despite judicial system woes: chief justice

  31-10-2022 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Violence in Ukraine has crippled the country’s judicial system, the chief justice of its Supreme Court says, and left it struggling to handle tens of thousands of criminal reports arising from the war.
  In a presentation given to an Ottawa conference on Monday, Justice Vsevolod Kniaziev said that more than a tenth of Ukrainian courthouses have been damaged or destroyed since Russia’s invasion of the country began earlier this year, and judges are facing threats from Rus
  
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• Delegation returns from Haiti amid high expectations for Canadian leadership

  31-10-2022 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada’s ambassador to Haiti says a team tasked with assessing the situation in the beleaguered Caribbean nation has returned home.
  Ambassador Sébastien Carrière revealed the team’s return while testifying to a House of Commons committee this afternoon.
  Carrière says the team is now briefing senior officials as the government weighs next steps in assisting Haiti.
  Haiti has been in turmoil since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated last yea
  
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• Blair insists he ‘did not ask’ RCMP to release information about N.S. shooting guns

  31-10-2022 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair isn’t budging from his stance that he did not interfere in a police investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting of April 2020.
  Blair, who was public safety minister at the time, is telling a House of Commons committee today he has never directed police to release information pertaining to an investigation, nor did he in this case.
  The Opposition Conservatives have called for the resignation of Blair and RCMP Commissioner Brenda
  
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• Co-owner Grant has enjoyed stellar ride with Bulldog Hanover

  31-10-2022 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It’s been quite the ride for Brad Grant.
  Since buying into heralded pacer Bulldog Hanover in 2021, the trucking magnate from Milton, Ont., has had plenty to celebrate. There’ve been countless trips to the winner’s circle, a stunning world record and Saturday night a resounding victory in the $810,000 Open Pace to conclude the US$6.7-million Breeders Crown at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
  And not even Grant, one of harness racing’s most prominent and influential owners, could&rsqu
  
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• Status of women committee passes motion for study on safety in sport

  31-10-2022 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The standing committee on the status of women unanimously passed a motion Monday to undertake a study on the safety of women and girls in sport.
  “There needs to be an in-depth study on the causes as to why there is still so many issues in changing the culture in sports,” said Andréanne Larouche, a Bloc Québécois MP of Shefford, Que., and vice-chair of the committee.
  “I witnessed discussions with Hockey Canada. And Hockey Canada is one thing, but we’ve
  
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• MLA stripped of duties after inviting killer to throne speech

  31-10-2022 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has removed a legislature member’s duties after Lyle Stewart invited a notorious killer to watch the government’s Speech from the Thorne last week.
  A statement from the Saskatchewan Party government says Moe has stripped Stewart of his legislative secretary duties effective immediately.
  Moe is to make a brief statement about the decision during proceedings in the Assembly later today.
  Stewart invited Colin Thatcher to watch the speech las
  
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• Einarson’s Canada squad thumps New Zealand 11-3 at Pan Continental Championship

  31-10-2022 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Kerri Einarson’s Canada squad scored five in the eighth end to complete an 11-3 win over New Zealand on Monday in its opening match at the inaugural Pan Continental Curling Championships.
  With Canada sitting four in the final end, Einarson drew for a fifth point on her last shot, leading to New Zealand conceding the game.
  “We wanted to play our game and put some pressure on them,” Einarson said. “We couldn’t get lulled into the hitting game, and we t
  
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• Employer confirms tentative contract with B.C.’s 49,000 public school teachers

  31-10-2022 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A tentative contract agreement has been reached involving British Columbia’s 49,000 public school teachers. 
  The BC Public School Employers Association, which negotiates on behalf of the provincial government, says in a statement that the deal with the BC Teachers’ Federation was reached on Friday. 
  No details of the agreement have been released, but the association says a ratification vote is expected to take several weeks. 
  The association says the
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek public’s help in identifying man

  31-10-2022 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Mounties in Chilliwack are hoping the public can help them to identify a man captured on camera in the 45000 block of Yale Road September 24.Police believe the man may have information that would be valuable to its investigation into a missing property case.
  “We greatly appreciate assistance from the public in our efforts to reunite the property with its owner” says Cpl. Martin Godard, media spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP.
  If you think you know the man in the
  
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• Texts show feds planning communications strategy before ‘Freedom Convoy’ arrival

  31-10-2022 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Newly released text messages show how the federal government was planning its communications strategy before the arrival of “Freedom Convoy” protesters in Ottawa back in late January.
  Messages between a senior member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s staff and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s press secretary on Jan. 24 have been released by the inquiry investigating the government’s use of the Emergencies Act.
  In the exchange, the prime minister’s adv
  
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• What is the Emergencies Act, and what special powers did Ottawa invoke last winter?

  31-10-2022 19:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A massive public inquiry is underway to determine whether the federal government was justified in its invocation of the Emergencies Act last winter during the “Freedom Convoy” protests.The Public Order Emergency Commission is hearing from high-profile witnesses and combing through sensitive documents to come to its conclusions.At the heart of the matter is whether the emergency declaration and the powers under the act were really necessary to clear the protests that ha
  
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• Does adversity make you stronger? Scientists say not always – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 19:32 via news.google.com
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• New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease

  31-10-2022 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A new clinic is opening today in Montreal that will treat patients who have either long COVID or Lyme disease.
  It is one of the 15 specialized facilities announced by the Quebec government in May to study COVID and Lyme disease due to similarities in the way the two diseases affect patients.
  Although most people recover from COVID-19 infections within two to four weeks, some patients even with mild versions of the disease end up with symptoms that endure much longer.
  Long COVID
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek to identify man in 'missing property' investigation – Hope Standard - Hope Standard

  31-10-2022 19:15 via news.google.com
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of October 30

  31-10-2022 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: John Wear
  Image: Supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 41
  Height: 6’2″
  Weight: 225 lbs
  Hair: Brown
  Eyes: Brown
  Tattoos: Neck – “MARA”, Right Upper Arm- “MOC” and Left Upper Arm- dragon face
  Wanted: Robbery and Theft
  Warrant in effect: October 19, 2022
  Parole Jurisdiction: Vancouver, B.C.Name: Richard Voszler
  Image: Supplied by Crime
  
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• Soccer's 'most important project' begins, and it's not the World Cup – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 19:00 via news.google.com
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• Police recover body of Quebec infant missing in river since car crash Friday

  31-10-2022 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Police in the Montreal suburb of Laval say they found the body today of a one-month-old infant missing in a river since Friday evening.
  The baby boy had disappeared when a vehicle with his mother and four-year-old sister plunged into the Mille Îles River in a northwestern sector of Laval just before 5 p.m.
  Police have said the 40-year-old mother was hospitalized and unable to speak to investigators, so they don’t know the circumstances surrounding the crash.
  The four
  
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• Oilers’ McDavid, Devils’ Bratt, Wild’s Fleury named NHL three stars of the week

  31-10-2022 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Edmonton centre Connor McDavid, New Jersey left-wing Jesper Bratt and Minnesota goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  McDavid topped the NHL with eight points (four goals, four assists) in four games to lead Edmonton to a perfect week and into second place in the Pacific Division.
  All eight points came on goals that tied the game or gave the Oilers the lead.
  McDavid recorded his second hat trick of the season and added an assist in
  
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• Canada Ravens women set to kick off second visit to Rugby League World Cup

  31-10-2022 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Five years after defeating Papua New Guinea 22-8 for their first-ever international test win at the Rugby League World Cup, the Canada Ravens renew acquaintances Tuesday with the Pacific Islands team known as the PNG Orchids.
  The 2022 edition of the women’s tournament has grown to eight teams with Brazil and France joining 2017 champion Australia, runner-up New Zealand, Canada, the Cook Islands, England and Papua New Guinea.
  The Canadian players have had to bide their time for a second tri
  
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• Weekend storm brings B.C. only modest relief from drought, but more rain to come

  31-10-2022 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Several days of heavy rain over British Columbia’s central and south coasts have only slightly eased drought conditions gripping the region.
  The province’s online drought map shows the Nicola, Coldwater, Finlay and Parsnip basins are ranked at drought Level 4 and have been joined by the Lower Mainland and west Vancouver Island, which are down a notch since being assigned the most severe ranking of Level 5 earlier this month.
  Level 4 means adverse drought impacts are
  
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• B.C. government offers new pay model for doctors to help health crisis

  31-10-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Family doctors in British Columbia are getting a significant raise under the province’s new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health care system. 
  The provincial government says a full-time family doctor will be paid about $385,000 a year, up from the current $250,000, under the new three-year Physician Master Agreement reached with Doctors of BC last week.
  Currently, family doctors are paid through a fee-for-service model and the gove
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. government offers new pay model for doctors to help health crisis

  31-10-2022 18:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Family doctors in British Columbia are getting a significant raise under the province’s new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health care system. 
  The provincial government says the a full-time family doctor will be paid about $385,000 a year, up from the current $250,000, under the new three-year Physician Master Agreement reached with Doctors of BC last week.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Canada coach Bev Priestman calls up three youngsters for Brazil women’s friendlies

  31-10-2022 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada coach Bev Priestman has called up three members of the Canadian under-17 team to join her squad for a two-game series in Brazil in the November international window.
  It’s the first senior invites for fullback Ella Ottey and forwards Amanda Allen and Annabelle Chukwu. All three were among Canada’s top performers at the recent FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India, where the young Canadians failed to make the knockout round after going 0-1-2 in pool play.
  The seventh-ranked
  
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• ‘Money for free’: Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway

  31-10-2022 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Critics fear Alberta’s new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies to fulfil their legal duty and clean up old wells.
  The so-called RStar proposal, developed by an industry group, has been criticized by legal experts, energy economists and the province’s own internal analysts.
  But for more than a year, Danielle Smith and newly appointed members of
  
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• Canada sanctions Iranian police force, university as regime cracks down on protests

  31-10-2022 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is adding Iran’s national police force and an Iranian international university to its sanctions list.
  The addition of Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces and Al-Mustafa International University today comes as Tehran continues to crack down on weeks of dissent.
  In a statement, Joly accused the police force of participating in the lethal suppression and arbitrary detention of Iranian protesters.
  She also accused the Iran
  
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• Neymar’s trial on fraud and corruption enters final day

  31-10-2022 16:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Neymar’s trial entered its final day on Monday with the company that accused him of fraud and corruption reducing the prison sentence it sought for the player’s alleged involvement in irregularities related to his transfer from Santos to Barcelona in 2013.
  The trial’s conclusion comes three days after Spain’s state prosecutor dropped its charges against Neymar, his father and the former executives of the Brazilian and Spanish clubs.Brazilian
  
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• Vigil outside burned northern Manitoba home mourns loss of four kids – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 15:30 via news.google.com
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• VIDEO: Suspension bridge collapse kills at least 133 in India – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 15:30 via news.google.com
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• China launches 3rd and final space station component

  31-10-2022 09:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday launched the third and final module to complete its permanent space station, realizing a more than decade-long endeavor to maintain a constant crewed presence in orbit.
  Mengtian was blasted into space at 3:39 p.m. (0739 GMT) Monday from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan.
  A large crowd of amateur photographers, space enthusiasts and assorted lookers-on watched the lift-off from an adjoining beach.
  Many waved Chinese
  
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• Sloly Emergencies Act testimony continues, food costs survey: In The News for Oct. 31

  31-10-2022 09:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 31 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly is expected to continue his testimony this morning at the public inquiry investigating Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act during “Freedom Convoy” protests last winter. 
  Sloly appeared in front of the Public Order Emergen
  
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• Testimony of former Ottawa police chief Sloly to continue at Emergencies Act inquiry

  31-10-2022 09:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly is expected to continue his testimony this morning at the public inquiry investigating Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act during “Freedom Convoy” protests last winter. 
  Sloly appeared in front of the Public Order Emergency Commission on Friday and described disorganization and a lack of communication within the Ottawa Police during the occupation of the city’s downtown. 
  Other witnesses, including top Ontari
  
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• Survey suggests 20 per cent of Canadians skipping meals to cut down on food costs

  31-10-2022 09:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SASKATOON — Laurie O’Connor says more people in Saskatoon are struggling to get food for themselves and their families as prices in grocery stores rise out of reach.
  “We are definitely seeing an increase and have been noticing that since January,” said O’Connor, executive director of the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre.
  The majority of respondents in a Canada-wide survey released Monday said they are using coupons or hunting for sales to cope with increasing
  
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• Exiting B.C. Premier Horgan says he learned to listen, but fuse still burns bright

  31-10-2022 09:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — John Horgan says some of the greatest lessons he learned while premier of British Columbia came from people considered political adversaries.   
  He said he found ways to work with people of all political stripes, including former B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver, former Alberta premier Jason Kenney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
  But Horgan’s trademark short fuse still burns brightly when it comes to confronting issues of bullying or what he considers “thugge
  
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• Mischief trial set to start for Doug McCallum, outgoing mayor of Surrey, B.C.

  31-10-2022 09:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — The outgoing mayor of Surrey, B.C., is set to face a charge of public mischief at the start of a trial today, two weeks after his defeat at the polls.
  Doug McCallum lost by 973 votes in one of the most hotly anticipated municipal election results in the province, after he promised to forge ahead with a plan to replace the RCMP with a municipal police force if he won a fifth term.
  McCallum ran his campaign against the backdrop of the charge laid last December, four months aft
  
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• Storm total for Chilliwack saw 63.5 millimetres of rain over the weekend - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 08:00 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack retirement residence is home in every way that counts - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 08:00 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek to identify man in ‘missing property’ investigation - Hope Standard

  31-10-2022 08:00 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack judge finds charter breach in assault suspect's arrest - Chilliwack Progress

  31-10-2022 08:00 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack Judge Finds Charter Breach In Assault Suspect’s Arrest - Abbotsford News

  31-10-2022 08:00 via news.google.com
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• Trump Organization faces criminal tax fraud trial over perks

  31-10-2022 06:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — For years, as Donald Trump was soaring from reality TV star to the White House, his real estate empire was bankrolling big perks for some of his most trusted senior executives, including apartments and luxury cars.
  Now Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, is on trial this week for criminal tax fraud — on the hook for what prosecutors say was a 15-year scheme by top officials to hide the plums and avoid paying taxes.
  Opening statements and the first witnesses
  
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• Ducks beat Maple Leafs 4-3 in OT, end 7-game slide

  31-10-2022 04:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Trevor Zegras scored his second goal of the game at 2:15 of overtime and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Sunday night to end a seven-game losing streak.
  Zegras scored the first of two Ducks goals in the third period as Anaheim rallied from a 3-1 deficit. Jabob Silfverberg and Dmitry Kulikov also scored goals for Anaheim, which had not won since its opener against Seattle.
  John Gibson made 32 saves for the Ducks, including a point-blank shot from
  
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• Eichel scores in OT, Golden Knights beat Jets 2-1

  31-10-2022 04:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jack Eichel scored in overtime and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Sunday night to improve to 8-2-0.
  Eichel circled the offensive zone for several seconds, darted through the crease and beat goalie Connor Hellebuyck with a nifty backhand.
  Mark Stone tied it for Vegas in the third period, and Adin Hill made 24 saves.
  Adam Lowry scored in regulation for the Jets. Hellebuyck stopped 46 shots.
  The Jets, who were 2-0 in overtime this season, had their sea
  
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• WHL roundup: Rebels win 13th straight by drilling Oil Kings 7-2

  31-10-2022 01:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The Red Deer Rebels ran into some early adversity in Edmonton on Sunday, trailing the host Oil Kings 2-1 before their game was 14 minutes old.
  The Rebels didn’t take long to get things right, scoring six unanswered goals to win the Western Hockey League contest 7-2. It was the Rebels 13th win in as many games.
  Hunter Mayo scored twice for the Rebels (13-0-0-0), with singles netted by Kai Uchacz, Christoffer Sedoff, Escalus Burlock, Craig Armstrong and Frantisek Formanek.
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