National Sports

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks signed forward Vasily Podkolzin to a three-year entry-level contract Sunday. Vancouver selected the six-foot-one, 190-pound forward in the first round, No. 10 overall, in the 2019 NHL entry draft.

RIGA, Latvia — Andrew Mangiapane had two goals and two assists to lead Canada past Italy 7-1 on Sunday at the world hockey championship.

Canada's Gabriela DeBues-Stafford showed her impressive range on Saturday night, dipping under the Tokyo Olympic standard and the two-minute barrier in the 800 metres. The 25-year-old from Toronto ran one minute 58.

Baseball Canada will turn to an experienced roster as it tries to secure an Olympic berth at the upcoming Baseball Americas Qualifier in Florida.

MONTREAL — Canada's first NHL crowd in nearly 15 months put on a show early Saturday as their team — propelled by the energy inside the Bell Centre — attacked in waves.

MONTREAL — It was a scene 444 days in the making. Smiling, jersey-clad Canadian hockey fans — with tickets bought and paid for — enjoying beers and sunshine before heading into an NHL arena on a spring evening.

BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak got his second career playoff hat trick, David Krejci had four assists and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Saturday night in the opening game of their second-round playoff series.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Steve Stricker took advantage of Mike Weir's back-nine collapse Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Senior PGA Championship.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jordan Spieth knows how to finish out of the rough, and still had the lead after three rounds at Colonial. After hitting his final drive Saturday into the thick grass on an incline right of the No.

GLENVIEW, Ill. — Canada's Adam Svensson is third heading into the final round of the Korn Ferry Tour's Evans Scholars Invitational. Svensson, from Surrey, B.C.