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Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury, the team announced on Saturday. The week-to-week designation means that he is expected to miss up to six weeks, according to the team. Tavares was injured during the team’s 5-4 overtime loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday in the third period after awkwardly colliding with Sabres forward Josh Norris. The 36-year-old centre remained down on the ice after the collision before skating off while favouring his left leg. Nick Paul slotted in as the team’s No. 2 centre during Saturday’s morning skate in Tavares’ absence in between Easton Cowan and Kirill Marchenko. Additionally, rookie Gavin McKenna took Tavares’ spot on the top power-play unit with Darren Raddysh, Auston Matthews, and William Nylander. Tavares has two goals and seven points in seven games early this season. He led the team with 31 goals last season to go along with 71 points and appeared in all 82 games for the first time since his first season with the Maple Leafs in 2018-19. The Maple Leafs sit sixth in the Atlantic Division with a 3-3-2 record as they get set to take on the New York Islanders on Saturday night.

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Repeatedly exposed on the forehand side, Zverev surrendered his first break of the match to an exquisite backhand passing shot on the run as Davidovich Fokina took the semi-final to a deciding set. Zverev was broken to trail 2-0 in the third set and could not recover control of the tie as the 25th seed advanced to his first ATP Masters 1000 final since 2022. Having failed to replicate the performance which earned him a straight-set win over Alex de Minaur in the quarter-final, Zverev said he has struggled since his fourth-round win over Alexander Bublik went to a third-set tie-break. "First, I'm not a robot, I'm a human being, I get tired," Zverev said. "After the US Open, I had one day off in total. I think I played a lot of tennis, which is very, very positive because that means I played well. "I think even here I had tough matches. I personally feel like I was quite flat since the Bublik match, because I was losing energy. "I played a phenomenal match against Alex de Minaur, but today I was flat. Even in the first set, even though I won the set, I was flatter, I was not reacting so well. I was returning quite badly. "We're all human beings, even the best players in the world.

A few days from now, we’ll reach the three-week mark of the 2026-27 NHL season, and every franchise will have played at least half a dozen games, give or take. Let’s assess what we’ve seen so far. Roundtable members: What’s an early-season overreaction you truly believe in?

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Through eight games, the Maple Leafs' biggest need has become clear: defence. Sportsnet's Luke Fox digs through potential solutions and much more in the latest Quick Shifts.

The Mike Malott mission remains on track. Whether you believe Malott is The Next Great Canadian Hope or not, you have to credit the matchmakers with giving him every opportunity to prove he is. In April, he added one-time welterweight title challenger Gilbert Burns to his hit list; tonight, he takes on another ranked opponent in Joaquin Buckley in the UFC Edmonton main event. The deck isn’t exactly stacked in Malott’s favor as Buckley was a rising contender himself not too long ago, but all Malott has asked for is his chance to move up the contender line and Buckley is the next man up. A few weeks shy of 35, Malott can’t afford any setbacks as a disappointing performance will put a hard cap on whatever potential he has left. Buckley has never lost three straight fights, so he has desperation on his side (for lack of a better term, I’m not sure someone with Buckley’s confidence ever feels truly desperate). The point is, he knows his back is to the wall and in a worst-case scenario, like Burns, losing to Malott could induce an existential crisis. Just win, Buck. In the co-main event, Erin Blanchfield and Jasmine Jasudavicius battle for a flyweight title shot… or do they?

The Laval Rocket overcame a 4-0 deficit to defeat the Belleville Senators 5-4 in overtime on Friday night. The road win was their fourth straight win after starting the season with a loss. The Rocket played their first game without David Reinbacher and Owen Beck, who were both recalled to Montreal over the last week. Filip Mešár took Beck’s spot on the second line while Max Szuber will take Reinbacher’s spot on the top pairing with Mittelstadt. Owen Protz drew back into the lineup on defence while Israel Mianscum made his season debut for the Rocket on the fourth line. Kaapo Kähkönen got the nod in nets again.

Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDTIn Canada: Sportsnet East (English), TVA Sports (French)In the United States: NHL NetworkIn the Sabres region: MSG BuffaloStreaming: Sportsnet+, TVA Sports+ It was another stellar defensive performance from the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night, holding the Washington Capitals to 1.78 expected goals at five-on-five. The team has now put four games together in a row allowing chances accumulating to that amount or less. For context, they accomplished such a feat 30 times in 82 games a season ago, so four times in seven contests is a sign of improvement. It was the Capitals’ third-lowest expected-goal total of the season, following Buffalo’s lowest and Detroit’s and Nashville’s second-lowest marks through two-and-a-half weeks.

By Jonathan Brazeau VICTORIA — It was the most anticipated game of the Co-op Invitational since the draw schedule was set: Canada’s Team Brad Jacobs versus Sweden’s Team Oskar Eriksson. A sizeable crowd was on hand Friday night at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre regardless, cheering on hometown heroes Team Taylor Reese-Hansen, but they were just as engaged and enthralled by the grudge match of Olympic proportions happening on the adjacent sheet. Here we are now. Entertain us. It was the first game between the two sides since their fiery round-robin encounter during the Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina. Eriksson, then throwing third stones for legendary skip Niklas Edin, accused Team Jacobs third Marc Kennedy of illegally double-touching a rock. Colourful words were exchanged in the viral moment that became one of the hottest talking points of the Games, lingering on even as Jacobs went on to capture Olympic gold. With Edin stepping back and Eriksson taking the reins, he just so happened to slot into the same pool as Jacobs for the Co-op Invitational, the season’s first Grand Slam of Curling tournament. What a coincidence?

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Elias Lindholm assisted on the tying goal and scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, leading the Boston Bruins past the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory. David Pastrnak scored a tying power-play goal and Frederic Brunet got his first NHL goal for the Bruins, who roared back from an early two-goal deficit and improved to 6-2-0. Less than five minutes after Pastrnak converted a give-and-go with Lindholm, the Ducks failed to mark Lindholm during a power play and allowed him to tap in a pass from Pavel Zacha with 11:39 to play. Matthew Poitras added another goal with 3:40 left on James Hagens' second assist of the night. Michael DiPietro made 25 saves in his second start of the season for the Bruins. Beckett Sennecke got his fifth goal and Tim Washe also scored for the Ducks, who have lost three straight home games while giving up 13 goals. Lukas Dostal stopped 18 shots. Ducks captain Mikael Granlund sat out with an upper-body injury, and goal-scoring winger Cutter Gauthier filled in by moving to center for the first time in his NHL career.

Brad Jacobs and Oskar Eriksson met Friday for the first time since their Olympic controversy. But this time, there was no drama, just a beatdown.

The Boston Bruins didn't look ready to go in the first period Friday night, and found themselves trailing the Anaheim Ducks 2-0 after 20 minutes as a result. Fortunately for them, they woke up for the remaining 40 minutes, mounted a comeback, and wound up winning 4-2 to extend their winning streak to four games. Here are 4 takeaways from the game:Special teams lead the wayThe Bruins weren't exactly feeling great about their special teams entering Friday night. The power play scored three times against Utah last week, but was 0-for-14 in the Bruins' other six games. The penalty kill, meanwhile, had allowed three goals on seven tries in the last two games, plus another goal just seconds after a penalty ended. Both units can feel a lot better after Friday night. The power play scored on its first three opportunities against an Anaheim penalty kill that ranked fourth in the NHL, swinging a 2-0 deficit to a 3-2 lead in the process. The penalty kill, meanwhile, went 4-for-4 against a Ducks power play that entered the game ranked second in the NHL at 33.3%. The Bruins' first power-play goal came early in the second period.

Watch as with seconds remaining, Bryson Barnes finds Ayden Eberhardt for a 24-yard touchdown, finally giving Ottawa their first win of the season, ending their winless streak. October 16, 2026 at 10:38p.m. EDT