National Sports

WINNIPEG — Patrik Laine let his play on the ice speak volumes Thursday night with a three-point performance that should squash questions about his committment to the Winnipeg Jets.

EDMONTON — Connor McDavid and the rest of the Edmonton Oilers big guns, embarrassed in their home opener, feasted Thursday on the Vancouver Canucks.

TAMPA, Fla. — Thrust into a key role with the Toronto Raptors this season, Chris Boucher is playing the most consistent basketball of his NBA career.

MONTREAL — The owner of Montreal's Major League Soccer Club knows change won't be easy for fans. After 28 years as the Montreal Impact, the team announced Thursday that it is rebranding as Club de Foot Montreal — or CF Montreal.

MIAMI — CONCACAF confirmed Thursday that its Olympic men's qualifying soccer tournament, originally scheduled to be played last spring in Guadalajara, Mexico, will take place March 18-30 at the same location.

Brent Hayden will take that "seniors discount" at the pool in order to swim fast. Almost nine years after winning an Olympic bronze medal in the men's 100-metre freestyle, the 37-year-old from Mission, B.C.

TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe doesn't expect the Ottawa Senators to be doormats much longer.

Canada Soccer's plan to showcase its men's national program to Toronto FC striker Ayo Akinola has been derailed by injury. Canada Soccer said Thursday that Akinola was one of four players who did not make the camp in Bradenton, Fla.

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif misses football. The Super Bowl-winning offensive lineman has no regrets about opting out of the 2020 NFL campaign to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. But the six-foot-five 321-pound Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Que.

Three more entries were confirmed for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Thursday as Sherry Anderson was named Saskatchewan's representative, Jill Brothers accepted the Nova Scotia invite and Laurie St-Georges took the Quebec spot.