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Canada's Olympic men’s hockey team will give 10 new players a look at the Channel One Cup in Moscow in two weeks from the team that competed in the Karjala Cup in Helsinki earlier this month.

Canada's Marie-Michele Gagnon suffered a shoulder injury Thursday and had to be removed from the course on a rescue sled after crashing during training for the season-opening women's World Cup downhill in Lake Louise.

The B.C. Lions have hired Ed Hervey as general manager and say Wally Buono will coach his final CFL season in 2018. Hervey held the same post with Edmonton from 2013 to 2016, building a Grey Cup-winning team in 2015.

Canada's women's sevens team had a good start to the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series on Thursday, going 3-0 on the first day of the Dubai Sevens to qualify for its 27th straight Cup quarter-final.

Sarah Nurse has been compared to more famous cousins her entire life. But while she's proud of her family and all their accomplishments, Nurse hopes to create her own identity with the Canadian women's hockey team, and making the Olympic squad is the first step towards that.

Six Russian cross-country skiers found guilty in the Sochi Olympic doping investigation have been barred from World Cup races. The IOC disqualified all six from the 2014 Games in November and imposed lifetime Olympic bans.

Watch live on television and online at 7 p.m. ET as the Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Vancouver Canucks on Hockey Night on Canada.

Watch as some of the best speed skaters in the world will be in action this weekend in Calgary. Coverage begins on Friday with the women's 3,000, men's 5,000 and team sprint events.

Watch live action from the women's alpine World Cup super-G event in Lake Louise, Alta.

Watch live action from the women's alpine World Cup downhill event in Lake Louise, Alta.

Watch live action from the men's alpine World Cup super-G event in Beaver Creek, Colo.

Watch live action from the men's alpine World Cup giant slalom event in Beaver Creek, Colo.

Watch live action from the men's alpine World Cup downhill event in Beaver Creek, Colo.

Watch as World Cup snowboarders go for gold in the big air competition in Monchengladbach, Germany.

Watch as World Cup freestyle skiers and snowboarders go for gold in the big air competition in Monchengladbach, Germany.

The New Jersey Devils have acquired defenceman Sami Vatanen from the Anaheim Ducks for forwards Adam Henrique and Joseph Blandisi. The teams also exchanged draft picks.

The 30-year-old forward "will not return to the Canucks active roster due to health reasons and risks associated with playing."

The Americans believe their chemistry couldn't be stronger and could help them achieve their ultimate goal: ending a 20-year drought by winning Olympic gold in February at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Canadian bobsledder Heather Moyse took a big step towards returning to competition by approaching her personal-best push time during a training session in Calgary on Wednesday.

She's the reigning world champion of women's curling, a three-time national champ and the favourite to represent Canada at the Olympics. But Rachel Homan's rise to the top of her sport didn't come easy.

It has taken 872 matches, but the 31 teams - and host Russia - that survived three years of qualifying now wait to see who they will play in the first round of next year's World Cup.

Nathan MacKinnon scored a power-play goal 59 seconds into overtime after he had a goal waved off 30 seconds earlier, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Wednesday night.

Jonathan Drouin and Phillip Danault scored in the second period and Carey Price made 25 saves to lift the Montreal Canadiens to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday for a third straight win.

Kyle Lowry's season-high 36 points led the Toronto Raptors to a 126-113 win over the Charlotte Hornets at Air Canada Centre on Wednesday night.

Jozy Altidore, limping on a bum ankle, scored in the 60th minute to return Toronto FC to the MLS Cup final with a 1-0 win over Columbus Crew SC in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final Wednesday.

Watch as Canada's rugby sevens teams kicks off the 2017-2018 season from Dubai. Ghislaine Landry captains the women's squad, while Harry Jones captains the men's.

Watch live as Canada's women's rugby sevens teams play for a bronze medal vs. Russia at the the 2017-2018 season opener in Dubai.

Watch live on Saturday beginning at 12:30 a.m. ET as Canada's men's rugby sevens team play at the the 2017-2018 season opener in Dubai.

After a breakthrough campaign that saw their first ever tournament win on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, the Canadian men kick off the 2017-18 season in Dubai on Friday looking to show their worth.

Watch action from the rugby sevens season-opening event from Dubai beginning Thursday at 3 a.m. ET.