In the “Q”, the Saint John Sea Dogs, before more than 6 thousand fans at the Station, downed Halifax 5-3 and the Moncton Wildcats broke a 25 game losing streak with a 5-4 win over Sherbrooke.
In the NHL, Patrice Bergeron had two goals and an assist as the Boston Bruins beat Dallas 6-3 to improve to 6 and 1 since Bruce Cassidy took over from Claude Julien as head coach…..Chicago won its 4th straight game, 4-2 over St. Louis and acquired former Sea Dog centre Tomas Jurco from Detroit……Columbus beat the New York Rangers 5-2….In other play, it was Calgary 3 Carolina 1….Nashville 5 Edmonton 4…Ottawa 2 Florida 1 and Arizona 3 Buffalo 2.
Nine Saint John Riptide basketball players and three Kitchener-Waterloo Titans have been suspended for their parts in a bench clearing brawl that broke out at the end of last Thursday night’s game at Harbour Station. The National Basketball League has also fined the two teams a combined $13-thousand dollars.
The Saint John Riptide lost to Halifax 113-102. Saint John had just eight players following the suspensions. Among the suspended are the team’s top two scorers, Anthony Anderson and Gabe Freeman.
Ontario’s Rachel Homan has won the Canadian women’s curling championship for a third time.
Terry Odishaw of Curl Moncton and Kathy Hicks of the Capital Winter Club have won the senior men’s and senior provincial women’s curling titles.
Kurt Busch used a last lap pass to win the crash-filled Daytona 500 in the opening race of Monster Energy’s new role as title sponsor of NASCAR’s top series.
In the NBA, DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points in Toronto’s 112-106 win over Portland. Elsewhere, it was Boston 104 Detroit 98……Milwaukee 100 Phoenix 96….San Antonio 119 Los Angeles Lakers 98…..Memphis 105 Denver 98…..Utah 102 Washington 92…..Oklahoma City 118 New Orkleans 110 and the Los Angeles Clippers 124 Charlotte 121.
