National Sports

Wednesday's Games NHL Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 1 (OT) Montreal 3 N.Y. Islanders 1 St. Louis 2 Detroit 1 Colorado 5 Calgary 2 N.Y.

MONTREAL — Even with Carey Price out with a concussion, the Montreal Canadiens are getting stellar goaltending.

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Canadian Denis Shapovalov was ousted from the Mexican Open Tuesday, losing 6-2, 6-3 to third-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria in the second round. The sixth-ranked Thiem broke the 18-year-old Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont.

Scott Blackmun resigned as chief executive of the U.S.

VANCOUVER — The NHL has no regrets about not sending its players to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, says commissioner Gary Bettman. "We've very comfortable with the decision we made as a league," Bettman said Wednesday.

TORONTO — The medium has changed but Joe Siddall's approach won't. Sportsnet announced Wednesday that Siddall, a former major-league catcher, will join the Toronto Blue Jays Central broadcast as a studio analyst. Siddall, 50, of Windsor, Ont.

ALGARVE, Portugal — Canada fell 3-1 to Sweden on Wednesday in its opening match of the 2018 Algarve Cup women's soccer tournament. Mimmi Larsson, Fridolina Rolfo and Stina Blackstenus scored for Sweden, which capitalized on Canada's defensive errors.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government wants to see gender equality in Canadian sports — from the local arena to the Olympics — by 2035, a vision articulated in a federal budget aimed at increasing opportunities for women and girls.

Toronto FC has locked up a important part of its defence, signing fullback Justin Morrow to a multi-year extension.

MOSCOW — Russia's ban from the Olympic movement was lifted on Wednesday despite two failed doping tests by its athletes at the Pyeongchang winter games.