National Sports

NEW YORK — The New York Islanders don't spend much time discussing their winning streak. Their focus is always on the next game.

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Ottawa's Rachel Homan scored a deuce in the eighth end to slip past Edmonton's Kelsey Rocque 7-6 on Tuesday in the first draw of the Tour Challenge.

PARIS — On a night of big comebacks in the Champions League, Borussia Dortmund came from two goals down to beat Inter Milan 3-2 Tuesday while Chelsea erased a three-goal deficit to draw 4-4 against nine-man Ajax.

TORONTO — Maple Leafs captain John Tavares returned to the lineup Tuesday following a seven-game absence with a broken finger. The 29-year-old suffered the injury Oct.

WINKLER, Man. — Neena Brick had a goal and two assists, Lauren Focht scored a power-play goal with just over a minute left, and Saskatchewan edged Alberta 3-2 Tuesday in the opening game of the 2019 national women's under-18 hockey championship.

TORONTO — Between the titanium plates and the 13 screws assembled in a mish-mash array of angles, his X-ray looks like a pile of Pick-Up Sticks. It's almost a year ago to the day that Manuel Osborne-Paradis crashed at Lake Louise, Alta.

Trace Canada's current golden age of basketball back to its roots and the name Eli Pasquale will keep coming up. Pasquale, a two-time Olympian who played at four world championships over his career, died Monday of cancer at age 59.

There have been a lot of moving parts on Team Scheidegger this season, and that fluidity will continue into the New Year. With skip Casey Scheidegger due to give birth to her second child over the coming days, the Lethbridge, Alta.

The 2019 tennis season has been a tale of two campaigns for Canada's Denis Shapovalov. He struggled at times early in the year and had middling results over the clay and grass portion of the schedule.

The U.S. will host the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in early 2020. Canada will be one of eight countries vying for two berth in the 2020 Olympic soccer field in Tokyo.