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Jocelyne Larocque and Team Canada will face the United States in the gold medal game of the Four Nations Cup in Tampa Bay Sunday afternoon.

Versatile Canadian centre Eric O'Dell deserves an evening off. The 27-year-old Ottawa native has been Canada's best forward in the first two games of Karjala Cup. He has exhibited a strong two-way game that has him in a good position to crack the Canadian men's Olympic team roster

Canada failed to take home a medal at the first big air event of the season in Milan, with both Laurie Blouin and Antoine Truchon finishing just off the podium. In the men's event, the Americans swept the podium.

Watch coverage of the men's and ladies free programs from the NHK Trophy in Osaka, Japan, on Road to the Olympic Games. Reigning world champions Yuzuru Hanyu and Evgenia Medvedeva will both be in action and looking to put their competitors on notice ahead of the PyeongChang Games.

​Remember #WhatAboutKaren? It’s okay if you don’t. In a lot of ways, she’d be happy to know you’ve forgotten. Karen Kuldys wants to put it all behind her anyway.

The 28-team curling field in Summerside, P.E.I is slowly being dwindled down, but the pre-trials event dubbed "Road to the Roar" has become a very long road for some of the curling teams.

The 28-team curling field in Summerside, P.E.I is slowly being dwindled down, but the pre-trials event dubbed "Road to the Roar" has become a very long road for some of the curling teams.

Canada came out hot at the first World Cup long track event of the season claiming a gold and silver medal in the men's events. Laurent Dubreuil started the team off, taking gold in the 500-metre event, and Vincent De Haitre followed suit shortly after with silver in the 1500m.

Kim Boutin added to her medal haul this season with a win in the 500-metre at the short track speed skating World Cup event in Shanghai, China, on Saturday.

Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova beat Olympic and world champion Mikaela Shiffrin to win the first women's World Cup slalom of the season. Vlhova trailed Shiffrin by 0.21 after the opening leg and used a near-perfect second run to edge the overall World Cup champion by 0.10 on Saturday.

Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova beat Olympic and world champion Mikaela Shiffrin to win the first women's World Cup slalom of the season. Vlhova trailed Shiffrin by 0.21 after the opening leg and used a near-perfect second run to edge the overall World Cup champion by 0.10 on Saturday.

Two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva won the NHK Trophy on Saturday to secure a place in the International Skating Union's Grand Prix final.

TK world-record score of 200.43 established by Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron last weekend at the Cup of China Reclaim

Curling craziness has hit a new level at the Olympic pre-trials. Because of so many teams finishing with identical records during the round-robin, tiebreakers will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET Friday night. The tiebreakers will then resume at 6:30 a.m. ET on Saturday morning.

5 former NHLers and Olympians were honoured at the ACC on Friday

​Patrick Marleau scored in overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs edged the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Friday in the first game of a home-and-home series.

Curling craziness has hit a new level at the Olympic pre-trials. Because of so many teams finishing with identical records during the round-robin, tiebreakers will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET Friday night. The tiebreakers will then resume at 6:30 a.m. ET on Saturday morning.

Danielle Goyette became an honoured member of the Hall on Friday along with former NHL stars Dave Andreychuk, Mark Recchi, Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya.

Bailey Bram could barely watch Canada's women play for hockey gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, so deep was the hurt at being cut from the team.

Genevieve Lacasse stopped all eight shots she faced and Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and an assist to power Canada over Finland 4-0 on Friday in the last preliminary-round game for both teams at the Four Nations Cup.

Genevieve Lacasse stopped all eight shots she faced and Marie-Philip Poulin had a goal and an assist to power Canada over Finland 4-0 on Friday in the last preliminary-round game for both teams at the Four Nations Cup.

Former middleweight champion Anderson (The Spider) Silva has been pulled from a Nov. 25 UFC card in China for a potential doping violation dating back to an Oct. 26 out-of-competition sample.

Canadian basketball phenom R.J. Barrett will play college ball at Duke.