The Las Vegas Golden Knights opened the Stanley Cup finals with a 5-2 win over the Florida Panthers. The Knights scored three times in the third led by Zack Whitecloud, Mark Stone and Reilly Smith with an empty netter. The game was tied, 2-2 after 40 minutes. Game 2 is Monday night in Vegas.
The Memorial Cup final is tonight in Kamloops, BC. The Quebec Remparts go for their third title. They won in 1971 and 2006 and lost in 1973 and 1974. Seattle is looking for its first Mem Cup championship.
Kinkora, PEI’s Dave Cameron has been named the CHL Coach of the Year after his Ottawa 67’s set a franchise record with 51 wins and 107 points as regular season champs in the OHL. Cameron is fourth among active coaches with 800 games and 400 wins through 12 seasons.
Connor Bedard of the Regina Pats was named the CHL’s Player of the Year, Top Scorer and Top Prospect. He’s expected to be the first round pick of the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL Draft.
The Toronto Blue Jays will go for another series win at CitiField in New York today after getting by the Mets, 2-1. Another solid outing for pitcher Jose Berrios. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit an RBI double in the 9th that brought home George Springer with the winning run. Toronto has won 6 of 8.
Boston and Tampa Bay split. The Red Sox used a six run 6th to win the opener, 8-5. Justin Turner hit a three run double. Alex Verdugo had three hits and two RBIs.
The Rays won the nightcap, 4-2 as Harold Ramirez put Tampa ahead in the 9th with a two run double.
The Yankees doubled the Dodgers, 6-3. Aaron Judge got his 19th homer. Jake Bauer hit two home runs.
San Francisco shutout Baltimore, 4-0. Alex Cobb struck out seven for the Giants to get his 5th win. Wilmer Flores hit a two run single.
Mark Carragher won the Countryview Golf Club Open with a 30 foot putt on the second playoff hole to beat Kevin Chen. That’s two straight titles for Carragher.
Time to Dance won the Saturday night feature in harness racing at Red Shores in Charlottetown in 1.58/4 on a muddy track with Corey MacPherson behind. Gilles Barrieau reigned three winners including Affair Somewhere in 2.00/1.
Racing resumes on Tuesday night at Red Shores in Summerside.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
Weather providing the Kings County Baseball League will have two games today.
Trixie’s Bears will play the Chevies in Morell at 2.00.
The Cardigan Clippers at the Peakes Bombers at 2.00.
Saturday’s scoreboard
NHL
Stanley Cup Final
Vegas 5 Florida 2
(Vegas leads best-of-seven series 1-0)
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AHL Playoffs
Western Conference Final
Coachella Valley 2 Milwaukee 1
(Coachella Valley leads best-of-seven series 3-2)
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MLB
Interleague
Toronto 2 N.Y. Mets 1
Colorado 6 Kansas City 4
Miami 12 Oakland 1
N.Y. Yankees 6 L.A. Dodgers 3
San Francisco 4 Baltimore 0
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American League
Boston 8 Tampa Bay 5 (First game)
Tampa Bay 4 Boston 2 (Second game)
Chicago White Sox 2 Detroit 1 (10 innings)
Texas 16 Seattle 6
Houston 9 L.A. Angels 6
Cleveland 4 Minnesota 2
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National League
San Diego 6 Chicago Cubs 0
Philadelphia 4 Washington 2
Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis 3
Milwaukee 10 Cincinnati 8
Atlanta 5 Arizona 2
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MLS
Toronto FC 1 Minnesota 1
Vancouver 1 Sporting Kansas City 1
Philadelphia 3 CF Montreal 0
New England 0 New York City FC 0
Portland 0 Seattle 0
Cincinnati 1 Chicago 0
Columbus 4 Charlotte FC 2
D.C. United 2 Miami 1
Orlando City 3 N.Y. Red Bulls 0
Real Salt Lake 2 Austin 1
Nashville 2 FC Dallas 1
St. Louis City 3 Houston 0
San Jose 0 Colorado 0
Atlanta at Los Angeles FC ppd.
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NLL
Final
Buffalo 13 Colorado 4
(Buffalo wins best-of-three series 2-1)
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Sunday’s Games
(All times Eastern)
Memorial Cup Final
Seattle vs. Quebec, 7 p.m.
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NBA Finals
Miami at Denver, 8 p.m.
(Denver leads best-of-seven series 1-0)
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MLB
Interleague
Toronto (Kikuchi 6-2) at N.Y. Mets (Senga 5-3), 1:40 p.m.
Oakland (Blackburn 0-0) at Miami (Alcantara 2-5), 1:40 p.m.
Colorado (Freeland 4-6) at Kansas City (Singer 3-4), 2:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Wells 3-2) at San Francisco (DeSclafani 4-4), 4:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (German 3-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Miller 2-0), 7:10 p.m.
American League
Tampa Bay (Bradley 3-2) at Boston (Houck 3-4), 1:35 p.m.
Cleveland (McKenzie 0-0) at Minnesota (Ryan 7-2), 2:10 p.m.
Detroit (Boyd 3-4) at Chicago White Sox (Kopech 3-5), 2:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Canning 4-2) at Houston (France 1-1), 2:10 p.m.
Seattle (Miller 3-2) at Texas (Eovaldi 7-2), 2:35 p.m.
National League
St. Louis (Mikolas 4-1) at Pittsburgh (Hill 4-5), 11:35 a.m.
Philadelphia (Suarez 0-2) at Washington (Williams 2-3), 1:35 p.m.
Milwaukee (Houser 1-1) at Cincinnati (Lively 3-2), 1:40 p.m.
Atlanta (Soroka 0-1) at Arizona (Gallen 7-2), 4:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Stroman 5-4) at San Diego (Weathers 1-3), 5:30 p.m.
(The Canadian Press)
