Charles-Édward Gravel earned a 26-save shutout as the Baie-Comeau Drakkar cruised to a 4-0 win over the Cape Breton Eagles in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoff action on Thursday. Raoul Boilard, Justin Poirier, Justin Gill and Louis-Charles Plourde scored for Baie-Comeau, which took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven semifinal series. Nicolas Ruccia stopped 38 shots for Cape Breton.  Both teams entered the series coming off second-round sweeps. The Eagles ousted the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, while the Drakkar eliminated the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. Baie-Comeau came out firing with Boi ..read more

Gavin McKenna scored twice in the span of one minute and 45 seconds in the first period as Canada opened with a 6-3 win over Sweden on Thursday at the world men’s under-18 hockey championship. Jett Luchanko had a goal and an assist and Malcolm Spence, Matthew Schaeffer and Carson Wetsch also scored for Canada. Porter Martone added two assists. Carter George made 26 saves to pick up the win. Canada made it difficult on themselves by racking up 51 penalty minutes, but limited Sweden to one power play goal. “Our penalty kill was outstanding even though we had to use it more than we wanted to,” sa ..read more

Hockey Canada completed its 25-player roster for the upcoming world men’s under-18 hockey championship Tuesday with the addition of forward Tij Iginla. The 17-year-old son of Hockey Hall of Famer forward Jarome Iginla had 47 goals and 84 points in 64 games with the Western Hockey League’s Kelowna Rockets this season. He added nine goals and 15 points in 11 playoff games before Kelowna was defeated 4-1 by the Prince George Cougars in the second round. Iginla is the No. 9-ranked North American skater on the NHL Central Scouting Bureau’s final pre-draft rankings, moving up from 11th in the midsea ..read more

The good news keeps rolling in for David Carle. USA Hockey announced Tuesday that the native of Anchorage, Alaska, will return to coach the 2025 world junior team after guiding the squad to a gold medal this year. Carle, 34, recently coached the University of Denver to its second national title in the past three seasons. USA Hockey also announced that Carle’s entire coaching staff will return, including assistant coaches Brett Larson, Steve Miller and Garrett Raboin, goaltending coach David Lassonde and video coach Travis Culhane. The world juniors run Dec. 2 ..read more

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds are taking it to the limit in their Ontario Hockey League quarterfinal series with the Saginaw Spirit. Gavin Hayes scored twice, Jack Beck had a goal and two assists, and the Greyhounds tied the best-of-seven series 3-3 with a 5-0 victory over the visiting Spirit on Sunday at GFL Memorial Gardens. Jacob Frasca and Marco Mignosa also chipped in with goals for the Greyhounds, who led 1-0 after the first period and 4-0 heading into the third. Charlie Schenkel made 24 saves in the Greyhounds’ net to post the victory. Nolan Lalonde stopped 29 ..read more

The Drummondville Voltigeurs have punched their ticket to the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League semifinals. The visiting Voltigeurs zapped the Sherbrooke Phoenix 6-1 on Sunday at Palais des Sports Leopold-Drolet to win their best-of-seven quarterfinal series in six games. Noah Reinhart scored twice and added two assists for the Volts, who led 2-1 after the first period and 4-1 heading into the third. Sam Oliver scored twice and added an assist for the visitors, while Lukas Landry and Ethan Gauthier netted singles. Kassim Gaudet and Marc-Olivier each chipped in with two assists. Olivier Dub ..read more

Three Western Hockey League playoff series wrapped up on Friday, setting up the conference finals. Jan Spunar stopped all 27 shots he faced as the Portland Winterhawks shut out the Everett Silvertips 5-0 to sweep their best-of-seven series in four games. Zac Funk had a hat trick and Riley Heidt had two goals and two assists as the Prince George Cougars doubled the Kelowna Rockets 6-3 to win their series 4-1. Jagger Firkus scored three consecutive goals as the Moose Jaw Warriors downed the Swift Current Broncos 4-2 for their fourth consecutive win and a 4-1 series victory. Moose Jaw will face t ..read more

Alexis Bourque scored twice as the Victoriaville Tigres downed the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 5-3 on Friday to win their Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League quarterfinal. Victoriaville won the best-of-seven series 4-1. Pier-Olivier Roy, Nikita Prishchepov and Maxime Pellerin also scored for Victoriaville. Nathan Darveau made 37 saves. Samuel Savoie had a pair of goals and Andrei Loshko added one for Rouyn-Noranda. Huskies goalie William Rousseau stopped 23-of-28 shots. PHOENIX 4, VOLTIGEURS 3 DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. — Lewis Gendron’s second goal was the eventual winner as Sherbrooke reeled off four u ..read more

Calem Mangone scored 7:53 into overtime to lift the Saginaw Spirit over the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 3-2 on Friday in the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. Saginaw has a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven second-round series. Matyas Sapovaliv and Hunter Haight had goals in regulation time for Saginaw. Nolan Lalonde made 32 saves for the win in net. Jack Beck and Bryce McConnell-Barker scored once for Sault Ste. Marie. Greyhounds netminder Charlie Schenkel stopped 37 shots ..read more

Jacob Julien scored a hat trick in leading the London Knights past the Kitchener Rangers 4-3 to finish off a second-round sweep on Thursday in Ontario Hockey League playoff action. Kasper Halttunen had the other goal for London, which earned its second straight sweep of the post-season. Michael Simpson made 26 saves.  The Knights now await the winner between the Saginaw Spirit and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the final remaining second-round series. That series is tied 2-2, with Game 5 in the best-of-seven series set for Friday. Trent Swick, with two goals, and Carson Rehkopf replied fo ..read more