Ahead of the Leafs vs. Capitals matchup, Washington head coach Spencer Carbery discussed the matchup against/pre-scout of his former team and the challenges the Capitals are facing in their five-on-five game despite their strong results of late (6-2-2 L10). You beat the Leafs just under three weeks ago. What did you like about how the […]
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The Blue Jays picked up Tyler Heineman off waivers from the Red Sox in September of 2024, and he got into five games with the Jays, after playing two with the Red Sox. Before that, he played parts of four seasons with three different teams. He had 10 games with the Jays in 2022. He’d […]
Hildeby starts.
We have a quartet of Blue Jays’ birthdays today. Jim Clancy would have turned 70 (but he died in July of this year), Roy Howell turns 72, Jeremy Accardo turns 44, and Willie Blair turns 60. Clancy was an original Jay, picked up in the expansion draft in 1976. The Jays called him up in […]
The Cale Makar contract conversation is starting to feel inevitable. As the salary cap climbs and elite players continue to reset the market, the idea of Makar landing at $16 million per season no longer sounds outrageous, according to NHL.com writer Dan Rosen . Makar's current contract , which runs through the 2026-27 season, sees him earning $9M annually, a steal for what the two-time Norris Trophy produces. Cale Makar contract could hit $16M without crippling Colorado A $16 million AA...
We come back to a former Blue Jays player. Well, a sort of former Jay. He played 60 games for us. It is Omar Vizquel’s ninth time on the ballot. He hit a high of 52.6% in 2020. In 2023, he dropped to 19.5%; the last two were 17.7 and 17.8% (so we know exactly […]
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BLACKHAWKS
The Blackhawks Week That Was and Will Be, 12/17: Shifting tides ( SCH )
For trade purposes, Blackhawks should try to spread out draft picks to 2027 and beyond ( Sun-Times )
Checking on Sam Rinzel, who is finding his rhythm and “learning to adapt” with IceHogs ( Tribune )
RECAPS: Maple Leafs 3, Blackhawks 2 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune )
Blackhawks scratch Artyom Levshunov for tardiness a...
The Miami Heat (14-12) aim to end a five-game losing skid when visiting the Brooklyn Nets (7-18) at 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 18, 2025 at Barclays Center. The matchup airs on FDSSUN and YES.
The Heat lost their most recent outing 106-96 against the Raptors on Monday. The Nets took care of business in their last matchup 127-82 against the Bucks on Sunday. Norman Powell totaled 20 points, three rebounds and four assists for the Heat. Egor Demin scored a team-high 17 points for the Net...
The Toronto Raptors (16-11) play the Milwaukee Bucks (11-16) at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 18, 2025 on FDSWI and TSN.
The Raptors are coming off of a 106-96 win over the Heat in their last outing on Monday. The Bucks head into this game after a 127-82 loss to the Nets on Sunday. Brandon Ingram scored a team-best 28 points for the Raptors in the win. Gary Trent Jr. scored 20 points in the Bucks’ loss, leading the team.
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This game between the Raptors and Buck...
We’ve entered a slow stretch of the offseason, with the early deals done and the free agent market now seemingly frozen as everyone waits for Kyle Tucker to make his decisionThere were little bits of Jays news: • Jose Berrios says he was battling bicep and elbow issues all season, which contributed to his down year. […]
Toronto vs Montréal - with a 6:30 pm start time.
The Washington Capitals (18-11-4) are favored when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs (15-12-5) on Thursday, Dec. 18. The Capitals are -162 on the moneyline to win over the Maple Leafs (+136) in the game, which begins at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
The Capitals matchup with the Maple Leafs can be watched on ESPN+, so tune in to catch the action.
Capitals vs. Maple Leafs Game Info & Odds
When: Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET
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Live Stream: ESPN+
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The age-old question surrounding the Minnesota Wild has always been whether they are contenders or just a playoff team.
The Athletic has a Stanley Cup Checklist. It’s a tool that can help you understand where your team stands relative to past Stanley Cup winners, whether you have the pieces in...
“He’s stepped up, for sure. We needed him [to be good], and he had a great performance again.” – Cedric Paré on Vyacheslav Peksa “We didn’t come out with much energy. We were kind of flat, for whatever reason. I thought we played 40 really good minutes, for the most part. [Peksa] kept us in […]
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Voting for the 2026 NBA All-Star game in Los Angeles opened on Wednesday, and the Toronto Raptors have two players who have a decent shot at being there. The team’s social media accounts launched their voting campaigns, centring on Scottie Barnes and Brandon Ingram in their efforts. If you’re unfamiliar with how NBA All-Stars are […]
That was a bad loss.
Sometimes the simplest answer is the most correct one, and that seems to apply to whatever the hell it was that transpired in Toronto on Tuesday night, as the Blackhawks turned a 2-0 lead into a 3-2 loss to a Maple Leafs team that seemed ready for an implosion at the end of 40 minutes.
It’s a bad loss, and the hours following it have found me in desparate attempts to avoid what’s probably my biggest pet peeve with sports media in 2025, which is how short-sighted ...
The seismic Quinn Hughes blockbuster is having ripple effects around the league on the trade market. Pierre LeBrun said on TSN's Insider Trading that teams in need of a defenseman are more desperate now, and the next most sought-after blueliner on the trade market, Rasmus Andersson, is getting even more attention. What I am hearing is that the Calgary Flames suddenly got more calls on Rasmus Andersson after the Quinn Hughes trade. That’s not surprising. Th...
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BLACKHAWKS
RECAPS: Maple Leafs 3, Blackhawks 2 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune )
Blackhawks scratch Artyom Levshunov for tardiness after Jeff Blashill’s eruption ( Sun-Times ) ( The Athletic )
Connor Bedard injury update articles ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune ) ( The Athletic ) ( Fels )
Blackhawks prospect Vaclav Nestrasil blowing away his own expectations at UMass ( Sun-Times )
Five players the Bla...
The Islanders suffered a regulation loss in Detroit last night through some untimely penalties and failure to stop Alex freaking DeBrincat on the ensuing power plays. They had a 1-0 lead entering the third, got the equalizer (from Scott Mayfield!?) after falling behind 2-1, but Mayfield took a late penalty and the Wings cashed in […]
All at once, this was a vital two points, a very fitting final four minutes to the Joe Bowen tribute game, and a not-at-all-reassuring performance by the Maple Leafs overall. This was the actual reality of this performance for the vast majority of the game: Irrelevant if they come back in this game, too. That […]
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The Chicago Blackhawks squandered a two-goal lead, allowing three unanswered goals in the final 10 minutes — including two of them just eight seconds apart — to fall 3–2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday in Canada.
The Blackhawks opened the scoring midway through the first period. After Dominic Toninato won a faceoff, Wyatt Kaiser picked up the puck, skated in, and beat Joseph Woll with a slick wrister from the high slot to give the Blackhawks a 1–0 lead.
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Craig Berube addressed the media after his team’s 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks, which improved the Maple Leafs’ record to 15-12-5. On the team’s start to the game: Actually, the first part of the first period wasn’t a terrible start. It was actually a good start to the game. We gave up a shorthanded […]
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I’m not sure about these defence pairings Martin St-Louis has come up with, but I suppose we’ll have to see how they do.
First period
Jayden Struble gets caught up ice on the first shift, and Fowler has already had to face one transition rush.
Cole Caufield is given about one-third of the offensive zone all to himself, but Dan Vladar saves the situation.
The checking is tight right now. It’s like watching five fencing matches taking place at once.
Adam Engström is ...
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