Leafs' preseason standout Fraser Minten makes opening night roster

The Canadian Press

TORONTO — The Maple Leafs made a series of moves on the eve of the NHL regular season, announcing netminder Matt Murray had undergone hip surgery as well as a series of changes to their staff. Murray will miss the next six to eight months after undergoing bilateral hip surgery. General manager Brad Treliving said at the start of the Leafs training camp that Murray was slated for "significant surgery" but wouldn't discuss the injury or procedure at the time. Murray, 29, went 14-8-2 with .903 save

The Canadian Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash tried to end speculation about replacing his friend Terry Francona as the manager of the Cleveland Guardians. “I'm very happy here," Cash said Monday at the season wrap-up press conference. "I'm under contract here and looking forward to next year, for sure.” The 64-year-old Francona recently stepped down as Cleveland manager. He's been slowed by major health issues in recent years. Cash played for Francona with the Boston Red Sox and

The Telegraph

It was almost 10pm, and we were singing along to Sting – inspired by the music playing at the petrol station where we had just been stockpiling chorizo and salted almonds (nothing is quite as Spanish as the random music playing in incongruous public spaces) – driving west from Santander, on Spain’s northern coast.

The Telegraph

“The toughest race for every driver in Formula One of our careers for everyone, no exception.” This was Charles Leclerc’s verdict on a Qatar Grand Prix that was marred by drivers momentarily passing out in the cockpit and throwing up in their helmets during a sapping and potentially dangerous 57 laps in the desert. “I don’t believe the one that says it’s not,” the Ferrari driver added.

The Canadian Press

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Paul Maurice’s two training camps as coach of the Florida Panthers have been brutal. End-of-practice laps that leave most players doubled over in agony. Sessions on the stationary bike that tend to make people wobble. Days are long, demands are many, smiles are few and any praise is earned. Everything has a purpose. And as the Panthers learned last year, there also can be a payoff. The Panthers are coming off a season where they won the Eastern Conference, went to the

The Canadian Press

MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens' brass has used words like "growth," "progress" and "evolving" to describe what it wants to see this season. The word "playoffs" hasn’t been as common. Montreal enters the regular season hoping to take another step in a rebuild that began two seasons ago when the club finished last in the NHL. Last year, the Canadiens were 28th. After subtle changes in personnel, the goal this season is to keep trending in the right direction. “It’s the growth, it’s getting bett

CBC

Around 300 refugee claimants gathered for their first Thanksgiving dinner in Canada at a church in North York on Saturday.Christian Centre Church's project lead Amanda Coombs says volunteers were able to serve the newcomers seeking refuge a warm meal and give them gift cards through a new initiative, the African Refuge Care program, all in the spirit of letting "them know that they're at home.""This is important because it really helps to bring awareness to the crisis that we have in Toronto, in

Associated Press

Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel, and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants, as the war's death toll rose to nearly 1,600 on both sides. Hamas also escalated on Monday, pledging to kill captured Israelis if attacks targeted civilians without warnings. In the war's third day, Israel was still finding bodies from Hamas' stunning weekend attack into southern Israeli towns.

ABC News

At least 900 people have died and more than 2,500 others have been injured in Israel after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented incursion from air, land and sea on Saturday, Israeli authorities said. Hamas fired thousands of rockets toward Israel and an estimated 1,000 fighters crossed into the country from the neighboring Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said at least 100 civilians and soldiers have been taken hostage.