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Quality goaltending. Overtime success. Steady defensive play and a well-rounded offensive attack. There are many similarities between the Canadiens and the 1992-93 Montreal team that was the last Canadian-based squad to win the Stanley Cup.

NEEPAWA, MANITOBA — A junior men's hockey team in Manitoba is the latest to change its name following a push against the use of Indigenous names and caricatures as mascots.

OTTAWA — The Minto Cup, Canada's junior A lacrosse championship, has been cancelled for 2021.

MONTREAL — The Winnipeg Jets saw their season come to an abrupt end Monday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Canada's Jessica Klimkait is a gold medallist at the world judo championships, and is also heading to the Olympics. Klimkait, from Whitby, Ont., beat Japan's Momo Tamaoki in the women's under-57 kilogram final on Tuesday.

The 2021 racing season at Fort Erie Racetrack is scheduled to begin next week. The '21 campaign will formally open Tuesday with a special post time of 3 p.m. ET and run through Oct. 26.

Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu and her longtime coach are parting ways. Andreescu wrote on Twitter that she and coach Sylvain Bruneau have mutually decided to end their "incredible coaching relationship" on Tuesday.

TORONTO — The CFL's board of governors could be providing some much-needed clarity on the 2021 season next week.

TORONTO — Barely two months before she'll step up to the start line at the Tokyo Olympics, Melissa Bishop-Nriagu was confined to her home for a 14-day quarantine. The 800-metre runner travelled to the U.S.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A fourth Canadian golfer has earned a berth in the U.S. Open. Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., secured one of 16 berths for the June 17-20 major on Tuesday at a final qualifier.