National Sports

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin called for fans to throw hats on to the ice to celebrate a three-goal performance not from him but rather one of his least likely teammates to pull that off.

OTTAWA — Logan Morrison scored twice as the Hamilton Bulldogs downed the Ottawa 67's 3-1 in Ontario Hockey League action on Saturday. Cole Brown also scored for Hamilton, while Brad Gardiner scored Ottawa's lone marker.

VICTORIAVILLE — Nathan Darveau earned a shutout as Victoriaville downed the Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-0 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League play on Saturday. Maxime Pellerin scored twice for Victoriaville, while Egor Goriunov added a single.

AMHERST, N.Y. — Shiann Darkangelo scored two goals, including the winner, as the visiting Toronto Six topped the Buffalo Beauts 6-4 in Professional Hockey Federation action on Saturday.

LONDON, Ont. — London Knights centre Abakar Kazbekov has died, the team and Ontario Hockey League announced via Twitter on Saturday. According to multiple media reports, Kazbekov died Saturday morning after falling from a downtown apartment building.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Rachel Karker's gold led a four-medal day for Canada in the season-opening World Cup freestyle halfpipe Saturday. Karker of Erin, Ont., and Calgary's Amy Fraser finished one-two in women's pipe in Copper Mountain, Colo.

EDMONTON — Lukas Dostal is making the most of his promotion to the big leagues.

CALGARY — Laurent Dubreuil says his bad races still have to be good in order to defend his World Cup speedskating title in the men's 500 metres.

Hockey Canada has a new board of directors. Now the real work begins. The embattled national sport organization's members elected a slate of candidates to fill nine vacant board seats Saturday. Retired judge Hugh L.

Edmonton Elks running back Christian Saulsberry was shot and killed near Memphis, Tenn., the team announced Saturday. Saulsberry had turned 25 on Monday.