Grande Prairie Storm netminder Nicholas Jones has been named the AJHL's Defensive Player of the Week after getting wins in his last three starts. Over the course of the week, (January 20-26) Jones had a 5-1 win over Bonnyville and followed that up by posting a shutout in a 3-0 win over the Fort McMurray Oil Barons the ...

Peace Region women, Nampa's Kayla and Ashton Skrlik, are set to represent the province once again at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts next month. Team Skrlik went 4-4 in their first Hearts appearance in 2023.Team Skrlik, out of Garrison Curling Centre in Calgary, edged Edmonton's Thistle Curling Club's Nicky Kaufman 6...

NWJHLIn the Northwest Junior Hockey League Friday, Sexsmith in Beaverlodge, Peace River in Dawson Creek and Fairview in Fort St. John. On Saturday, Dawson Creek will be in Fairview. Those games will start at 8 p.m. Also Saturday, Wheat Kings in La Crete will start at 7 p.m. Sunday, Wheat Kings in La Crete starts at 1:3...

StormThe Grande Prairie Storm swept a two-game, mid-week road trip. Grande Prairie beat Fort McMurray 3-0 Wednesday.Nicholas Jones made 31 saves for the shutout. Tomas Marinkovic, Zachary Wilson and Max Leduc had the Storm goals. Grande Prairie also won 5-1 in Bonnyville on Tuesday.The Storm will next play January 31 a...

StormThe Storm continue their road trip in Fort McMurray Wednesday night. Puck drop is at 7:30.Grande Prairie started the two game road swing with a 5-1 win Tuesday night in Bonnyville.Brandon de Haas, Zachary Wilson, Will Harris, Tomas Marinkovic and Owen Hutzul had the Storm goals. Nicholas Jones made 25 saves.Grande...

The Curling Alberta Women's Provincial Championship starts today (Wednesday, January 22) in Rimby and several teams and players from the Peace are taking part.The Janais DeJong team from Grande Prairie and the Robyn Silvernagle rink from Sexsmith are both among the dozen teams taking part.DeJong's team includes third S...

FRISCO, Texas (AP) - Dallas Stars defenceman Miro Heiskanen is week to week with a lower-body injury sustained on a big hit from Vegas captain Mark Stone, and the standout from Finland won't play in next month's 4 Nations Face-Off tournament. Stars coach Pete DeBoer said Thursday that Heiskanen had an MRI and was plann...

Canadian flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius will enter the record book Saturday when she and Brazilian opponent Mayra (Sheetara) Bueno Silva become the first female fighters to appear on a UFC card in Saudi Arabia. "Once I heard about that, I was so inspired," Jasudavicius said. "To be able to be the first t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter has killed teen figure skaters returning from a national meet with their mothers and coaches, as well as a group of union steamfitters from the Washington, D.C. area. They were among 60 travelers and four crew members on board the flight ...

The crash of an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter was the latest to strike the sports world in the U.S. and globally. Among the passengers were several members of the Skating Club of Boston who were returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas. They included teenage ...

Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews will captain the United States at the 4 Nations Face-Off. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Monica Wright Rogers has been hired as the first general manager of the WNBA's Toronto Tempo, according to reports. The expansion team will begin play in 2026. The Athletic and ESPN are reporting that the hiring is official. Wright Rogers spent seven seasons in the WNBA as a player. She most recently served a...

TORONTO - The chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc. says the company plans to "remain disciplined" this year amid a competitive telecom market, but could face challenges from Canada's reduced immigration targets and the tariff threat from the U.S. Amid the current political environment, there "se...

MARBELLA - Toronto FC gave up a late goal and had to settle for a 1-1 draw Thursday with Norway's Fredrikstad FK in the MLS team's first game of the pre-season. The contest was played in four 30-minute halves with TFC giving two different starting lineups 60 minutes each at La Quinta Football Center. Canadian internati...

CALGARY - The Calgary Surge of the Canadian Elite Basketball League announced Thursday that former NBA bench boss Kaleb Canales has been named the team's head coach for the 2025 season. The 46-year-old Canales, who is currently the associate head coach for the Dallas Mavericks' NBA G League affiliate, has previously be...

Aleksander Barkov and Victor Hedman were named captains for Team Finland and Team Sweden, respectively, on Thursday ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off. Barkov, who made history as the first Finnish captain to win the Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers last year, will be joined by Sebastian Aho and Mikko Rantanen, both ...

The Grand Slam of Curling series is going international for the first time. The Curling Group CEO Nic Sulsky says the five-event circuit will make its first visit to the United States during the 2025-26 season. Host city and bonspiel dates for the 2025-26 season are expected to be released over the next few weeks. But ...

Two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches whose son recently finished fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were among those feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River Wednesday night. U.S. Figure Skating conf...

NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) - Two young figure skaters, two of their parents and two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches were among those killed after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River. Doug Zeghibe, the chief executiv...

TORONTO - AFC Toronto has signed former Canadian youth international defender Ashley Cathro and American midfielder Colby Barnett, bringing the new Northern Super League's team roster to 18 players. Cathro, 25, had put soccer on pause to pursue a PhD after playing five seasons at the University of Illinois. "But w...

TORONTO - Morgan Rielly is used to contributing with the puck on his stick. The Maple Leafs defenceman had a career-high 68 points a couple of years back and chipped in another 58 last season as part of a well-oiled attack. The offence has largely dried up in 2024-25 for Rielly. His teammates have been bitten by the sa...

LAVAL, Que. - Marie-Philip Poulin regularly tees up shot after shot at the end of practices. On Wednesday night, the Montreal Victoire captain put those reps to good use and sparked her team to victory. Trailing 1-0 after Montreal's sloppy first period, Poulin cranked up the energy early in the second by unleashing a b...

The Grande Prairie Storm still have a lot left to accomplish this season, however, they are already preparing for the future. The Storm have signed local forward Max Fogle from the U18 Grande Peace Storm, who will be ready to suit up in the 2025/2026 season. In the release, General Manager Mike Bomerback said "Max...

The Storm are in Bonnyville tonight (Tuesday, January 21). Face-off time is at 7 p.m. The Storm are in second place in the North Division, nine points back of Whitecourt but with three games in hand Grande Prairie will finish the road swing Wednesday night in Fort McMurray. That game will start at 7:30 p.m.

Hockey leagues across the Peace region still played this past weekend despite freezing temperatures and less than ideal road conditions. AJHL Grande Prairie Storm The Grande Prairie Storm hosted the Devon Xtreme for a pair of weekend games. The first game Friday night the Storm were shutout 3-0, but were able to come b...

StormThe Grande Prairie Storm will host Devon in a pair of games this weekend.Face-off will be 7 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday. The Storm are second in the North Division with 41 points, a point up on Lloydminster and nine points back of Whitecourt, but with three games in hand on both.The expansion Extreme is last i...

Last week saw the trade deadline for all Canadian major Junior and Junior A hockey organizations. The Friday, January 10 deadline saw the Grande Prairie Storm add a trio of players.; The first coming from a trade with the Bonnyville Pontiacs, as they acquired 2004-born forward and Kelowna product Kalius Green for futur...

The Peace Country Ringette Club was in Leduc this past weekend for the Wild Things Tournament and brought home some hardware, and a "wonderful expierence."The Clubs U12C team claimed the top spot in their division and were awarded the gold, while the U14C team had a hard-fought battle to claim bronze. Photo C...