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The 28-year-old from Cole Harbour, N.S., registered two assists for the Colorado Avalanche during a 5-1 win on Thursday — wrapping up the regular season with140 points.

Chris Simon was known as one of the toughest players of his time, racking up 1,824 penalty minutes spanning 782 career NHL games.

Montreal's Savage was a first-round pick, 15th overall, by the Capitals in 1988. The NHL said on its website Friday that Savage died Sunday in Florida.

The Quebec government has faced criticism over the subsidy while citizens grapple with cost-of-living woes and while public sector unions are on strike.

Legault says he hopes the venture will showcase Quebec City's arena and inspire the NHL to install a franchise in the provincial capital, which has been without a team since 1995.

The Quebec government is facing backlash for subsidizing two L.A. Kings NHL preseason games in Quebec City for between five and seven million dollars.

The Kings, who will train in Quebec City from Oct. 2-6, will face the Boston Bruins in their first pre-season game on Oct. 3, before taking on the Florida Panthers two days later.

Hockey Hall of Famer and former Edmonton defenseman Paul Coffey will assist Jackson in his new role.

Canada is still awaiting its next Stanley Cup champions. Friday marks three decades since the Habs celebrated that victory on a sweltering night at the Montreal Forum.

Highway 50, an east-west route in the greater Montreal area, will now be known as Autoroute Guy-Lafleur.

Longtime Oilers captain Al Hamilton, who played against Hull both in the NHL and the now-defunct World Hockey Association, remembers Hull as "the original power forward."

Efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages are underway in Canada's North, thanks to dedicated elders, teachers, translators and broadcasters.

The Canadian Cancer Society estimates 21,000 people will die of lung cancer in this country in 2021 — some 25 per cent of all cancer deaths.

After finger-testing the political wind direction and getting a nation of angry fingers flipped back, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has iced funding for Quebec City's proposed new hockey arena.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in hot water over his promise to consider pumping millions of dollars into a plan to build an NHL arena in Quebec City, with critics describing it as an ill-conceived waste of taxpayers' dollars, and one Conservative MP calling it a ``risky'' venture.

Quebec City might be getting a new arena and maybe its old hockey team back, too. According to media reports, a meeting between Premier Jean Charest and Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume is scheduled for Tuesday in the capital to discuss the city’s new amphitheatre project, estimated to cost $400 million.

A 22-bus fleet carried about 1,100 fans calling themselves the "Nordiques Nation" to Nassau Coliseum on Saturday night, a mission to express their desire for the return of an NHL team to Quebec.

A recent poll by Forum Research asked which Canadian city should be the next to get a franchise: While Quebec City - formerly the home of the Nordiques - came in first, Halifax tied with Hamilton as the second pick.

OTTAWA - Saskatchewan tried to do an end-run around rules that would prevent the province from tapping into a pot of more than $1 billion to build a new CFL stadium in Regina, new documents indicate.

OTTAWA - Saskatchewan tried to do an end-run around rules that would prevent the province from tapping into a pot of more than $1 billion to build a new CFL stadium in Regina, new documents indicate.