National Sports

VALENCIA, Spain — The Canadian women's field hockey team blanked Malaysia 3-0 on Sunday, bouncing back from an opening 2-0 loss to Britain at an FIH Olympic Qualifier.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Until he took on defending champion Novak Djokovic at Rod Laver Arena on opening Sunday in Australia, Dino Prizmic had never played a Grand Slam match.

MONTREAL — Marie-Philip Poulin will remember Saturday as one of the greatest days of her decorated hockey career — even though she was robbed of a storybook ending.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Brett Pesce scored his second goal of the game at 1:41 of overtime to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 3-2 National Hockey League victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mikael Backlund had a goal and an assist, Jacob Markstrom made 32 saves and the Calgary Flames beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 on Saturday night for their ninth NHL victory in 13 games.

MELBOURNE, Australia — It wasn't vintage Leylah Fernandez, but the 21-year-old from Laval, Que., found a way to grind out a victory on Saturday in her opening singles match at the 15-day Australian Open.

QUEBEC — Artur Beterbiev of Montreal defeated Callum Smith of Liverpool, England, by knockout in the seventh round to retain his WBC, IBF and WBO light heavyweight world championship in front of more than 10,000 boxing fans on Saturday night at the C

Saturday's Scoreboard NHL Edmonton 2 Montreal 1 (OT) Calgary 3 Vegas 1 Vancouver 1 Buffalo 0 Philadelphia 2 Winnipeg 0 Ottawa 5 San Jose 4 Colorado 5 Toronto 3 New Jersey 4 Florida 1 Washington 3 N.Y.

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WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets knew that all good things have to come to an end.