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A bank-pass setup from Callum Croskery sent Travis Hayes in alone for the overtime winner, lifting the Soo Greyhounds past the Niagara IceDogs after the IceDogs tied it with two quick third-period goals It might have been a bit of a mathematical finish, and the Soo Greyhounds are good with that.

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Artem Zub made his season debut as Matthew Schaefer and the Islanders came to town. Linus Ullmark and Semyon Varlamov got the starts. Stephen Halliday got the opportunity to play on the top line with Tim Stützle and Drake Batherson and almost scored early when he went to the net and got a pass from Batherson in front that he couldn't quite control. Moments later Warren Foegele beat Varlamov clean and thought he had scored his first goal of the season, only to learn that his shot hit the crossbar and stayed out. The fourth line got some sustained pressure in the Islanders' zone as Foegele, Zetterlund and Ridly Greig were relentlessly forechecking. Minutes later, Halliday cleanly beat Varlamov glove side, however, Islanders coach Pete DeBoer challenged for offside and on the review it was clear that Batherson was a foot offside. To make matters worse, with seconds left in the period, Shane Pinto whiffed on a pass in the defensive zone and Matias Maccelli picked up the puck and fired a wrist shot past Ullmark on a goal he should have saved. 1-0 New York. Maccelli lights the lamp! 🚨 pic.twitter.com/9LL38iYNZk— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) October 15, 2026

The Dodgers are a great team, but not the best team in baseball anymore, or even the best in the National League. That honour now goes to the Brewers.

TORONTO (AP) Owen Power scored in overtime and the Buffalo Sabres rallied from two goals down in the third period to overcome Kirill Marchenko's hat trick and beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Thursday. Marchenko had the fifth hat trick of his career in his 300th NHL game. His third goal, at 16:51 of the second period, put the Leafs ahead 4-2. Jack Quinn had a pair of goals for Buffalo before Dennis Gilbert and Mattias Samuelsson scored in the third to tie it at 4-all. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 26 shots for the Sabres, who were coming off a shootout loss to Montreal two nights earlier. Auston Matthews also scored for Toronto, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves. Power took a feed from Quinn at center ice and ripped it past Bobrovsky at 3:14 of overtime. Acquired from Columbus on Sept. 28, just before the season began, Marchenko had scored only once for Toronto before Thursday. John Tavares had two assists before he left the game early in the third after he collided with Buffalo forward Josh Norris. The former Toronto captain appeared to favor his left leg as he left the ice.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Captain Victor Hedman scored just over two minutes into overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night. Hedman crossed the blue line, split the defense and drove straight to the net, tapping the puck through the legs of Seattle goalie Philipp Grubauer, who was trying to poke the puck away. Pontus Holmberg got an assist on the goal 2:07 into OT. Brandon Hagel scored twice and Ilya Mikheyev added a goal for the Lightning, who improved to 4-0-0 at home. The last time Tampa Bay opened a season with four straight wins in 2020-21, when they opened 6-0. Tampa Bay led 2-1 after two periods and was 3-0 when leading after 40 minutes entering Thursday's game. Last season, the Lightning were 33-1 when leading after two periods. Jared McCann, Matthew Beniers and Ryan Winterton scored for the Kraken. Beniers’ tip-in goal in the third tied the game with 4:19 left in regulation. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves in the win for the Lightning. Grubauer had 31 saves for the Kraken. Kraken: At the Florida Panthers on Saturday. Lightning: Host the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. ---See AP’s full NHL coverage here

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Published: October 15, 2026 at 10:44p.m. EDTNEW YORK — Scottie Barnes led the way with 23 points, Canadian RJ Barrett had 21 but the Toronto Raptors narrowly lost 122-120 to the New York Knicks on Thursday in NBA pre-season action. Kawhi Leonard, the Raptors’ star off-season acquisition, had just six points on 2-of-5 shooting in 22 minutes. Leonard, who had a game-high 21 points in his debut on Tuesday, exited the game with 4:42 left in the third quarter and did not come back in. Reigning NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson led New York with 20 points, with Karl-Anthony Towns adding 13 points along with a game-high 15 rebounds and nine assists. It was the second game of a home-and-home series between the teams. The Raptors beat New York 148-98 in Toronto on Tuesday, with the Knicks sitting all their starters. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026. The Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Scottie Barnes led the way with 23 points, Canadian RJ Barrett had 21 but the Toronto Raptors narrowly lost 122-120 to the New York Knicks on Thursday

Wins it at 3:14, Quinn has 4 points for Buffalo; Marchenko gets hat trick for Toronto TORONTO – Owen Power scored at 3:14 of overtime, and the Buffalo Sabres rallied from a two-goal third-period deficit for a 5-4 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena on Thursday.

By Jonathan Brazeau VICTORIA — Sparks and fist pumps were flying when Matt Dunstone delivered his final shot against Danny Casper, scoring two points for an intense 8-7 win Thursday at the GSOC Co-op Invitational. Dunstone improved to a 2-1 record (six points) in the season’s first Grand Slam of Curling tournament at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. With four seconds left on his thinking time clock, Dunstone nailed the soft bump into the quarry to score the winning deuce that fired up the team and the crowd. "Awesome. That was a game I thought we deserved to win, for sure," Dunstone said. "A bad pick in six, and then I had a bad miss on my last in seven to let him back into it. But to come back with a big shot, fun way to end it. " As Dunstone alluded to, hits and misses highlighted the earlier stages of the match. Casper misfired a runback in the first end to put two points in Dunstone's pocket with one shot to go; however, the Winnipeg skip couldn't add a third rock to the count, tapping and rolling too far. That lost point came back to hurt. Casper chiselled out Dunstone’s shot rock in the second to score three points and take the lead as the back-and-forth chase was on.

Sudbury Wolves' Liam Ladds, left, and Windsor Spitfires' Michael Svrcek battle for the puck on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026 at WFCU Centre in Windsor. (DAN JANISSE / Postmedia Network) JC Lemieux continued his red-hot start to the 2026-27 hockey season in the same venue in which he started his junior career, recording his second OHL hat trick in a 6-2 defeat of the Windsor Spitfires on Thursday night.