The Jets have seen a fall in their 5 on 5 play of late but their power play has been red-hot, their goaltending remains stellar and they’ve won six of their last seven games. As a result they sit second in the Central just a point back of the Stars with three games in hand.
The Blues were looking like they could be challenging for the 4th spot in the Central but they’ve fallen of late going 5-5-0 in their last ten which has kept them ahead of a hard-charging Wild team but well behind a Predators team that has won five straight and given themselves a buffer of four points on these two clubs.
Morning Skate:
Sean Monahan on the ice for morning skate after missing the last game with illness.
David Gustafsson on the ice after his conditioning loan to the Moose which expired yesterday.
Looks like Laurent Brossoit gets the start tonight.
1. Facing the Blues
2. Not preventing 3rd period goals (:43)
3. Trying Cole Perfetti back on the right (1:28)
4. Is Cole Perfetti doing enough to stick in lineup? (1:57)
5. What are challenges for Perfetti on right side? (2:38)
6. Is he paying any attention to the season ticket situation? (3:16)
7. Getting Laurent Brossoit into more games (3:36)
8. Role Vlad Namestnikov can play in helping Perfetti (4:17)
9. Winning games in different ways (5:21)
10. How do they get comfortable in one goal games? (6:38)
11. Assessment of David Gustafsson’s conditioning loan (7:12)
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OTTAWA – American receiver Justin Hardy will miss the Ottawa Redblacks’ regular-season finale Friday.
Hardy, who leads the CFL in receptions (97) and is second in receiving yards (1,343), was listed off Ottawa’s depth chart Thursday. Hardy was named Wednesday as the Redblacks’ nominee for the league’s outstanding player award.
American Andrew Miller will start in Hardy’s place.
Ottawa (8-7-1) concludes its regular season hosting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7-10). The Redblacks have already clinched third in the East and will visit the Toronto Argonauts (10-7) in the division semifinal Nov. 2.
Hamilton has been eliminated from playoff contention.
Incumbent Dru Brown is listed as Ottawa’s starting quarterback.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2024.
BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — AC Milan’s weekend match at Bologna in Italy’s top soccer league has been postponed, Bologna officials announced Thursday following extensive flooding in the central Italian city.
The Serie A match had been scheduled for Saturday.
Bologna is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, large parts of which have been hard hit by torrential rains and bad weather for days.
The game was not immediately rescheduled.
“Following the flood that affected Bologna, intense work is underway to clean up the situation,” the city of Bologna said while announcing the game postponement on X.
BASEL, Switzerland – Canada’s Denis Shapovalov advanced to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Roberto Bautista Agut on Thursday.
Shapovalov used a strong service game to overcome the Spanish veteran for the win at the ATP 500 event in just under one hour 40 minutes.
The 25-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., fired 18 aces, including one to set up match point in the second-set tiebreaker, and won 79 per cent of first-serves and 63 per cent of second-serve points.
Shapovalov, a former top-10 player on the ATP Tour, entered this year’s Swiss Indoors ranked 95th and will appear in just his second quarterfinal of the season.
He improved to 3-0 against Bautista Agut, who he beat in July en route to a quarterfinal appearance in Washington.
Shapovalov will next face the winner of a match scheduled for later Thursday between defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal and France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2024.
