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Alexis Normand was given a second chance at the Memorial Cup on Tuesday night. You might remember her …troubled …rendition of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ at the tournament on Saturday night. The video went viral and she was an overnight celebrity of sorts.
On Tuesday, she got a do-over — but she only performed the Canadian anthem. She told the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix she is not sure if she could perform the U.S. anthem again in an arena setting.
“I’d have to think about. I know I can do it, but it would be kind of a head game.”
The city of Montreal has changed the name of Faillon street in front of Jarry Park, the former home of the Montreal Expos, to Gary Carter Street in honour of former Expos Hall of Famer. (Photo: Ryan Remoirez/The Canadian Press)
Jays slide past the Rays: The Toronto Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie slides safely into third after hitting an RBI triple off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jake Odorizzi. The Blue Jays came away with a 7-5 win over the Rays thanks to a strong start from R.A. Dickey and a clutch double from Edwin Encarnacion on Monday afternoon. (Photo: Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
Resilient Senators refuse to quit in Game 3 win over Penguins
The Ottawa Senators had seen their season pronounced dead before, given last rites and a sympathetic benediction, so maybe this was old hat. Maybe being 35 seconds or so away from being down 3-0 in their second-round series with the Pittsburgh Penguins and short-handed — against Pittsburgh, there is a tendency to feel short-handed at the best of times — wasn’t the impossibility that it seemed. They’ve been dead before. It wasn’t so bad.
But the Senators didn’t die the first time. This time Karlsson was called for slashing with 1:27 left, and who scores short-handed with 1:27 left? But Pittsburgh was content to kill clock, dump the puck in, not attack, and Daniel Alfredsson started out of his own zone, under no pressure, with about 35 seconds left. The 40-year-old captain dropped a pass to Sergei Gonchar and kept skating down the right side, and Gonchar gained the zone and found Michalek on the left-side boards, inside the blue line, and the whole Penguins defence took a stride towards him, for whatever reason.
And Alfredsson was still skating away and was steaming to the net alone, and Michalek found him, and Alfredsson deflected the pass up and in with hands that have done it ten thousand times before. The clock said there were 26.8 seconds left. Scotiabank Place was so loud.
And in the second overtime Ottawa got the puck deep, and defenceman Andre Benoit got a shot from a sharp angle that hit Vokoun in the chest and bounced and fell, and Greening slapped at it and popped it over Vokoun’s shoulder at 7:39 of double overtime for a 2-1 win in an improbable Game 3. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)
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Do you want to buy Wayne Gretzky’s sweaty things? NOW YOU CAN.
The man behind the biggest collection of all things No. 99 is selling his prized memorabilia.
Insurance is a big reason. Collections such as Chaulk’s are hard to buy coverage for and the thought of a fire makes him blanch. Also, he’s already got most of the main Gretzky items likely to come on the market, so the thrill of the chase is getting rarer.
“There’s not a lot of chase left. It’s like I’ve gotten to the top of the mountain.
(Photo: Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)
So, the Leafs didn’t win on Monday night, in their first playoff game since 2003. But look at how excited Toronto is about actually having a team in the post-season. LOOK AT THEM. (Photo: Tyler Anderson/National Post)
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Several members of the Toronto Maple Leafs had already walked past, smiling, by the time the door opened. Head coach Randy Carlyle emerged, laughing and finishing a joke with someone still inside the room. There were more smiles.
Almost an hour earlier, the Leafs had secured their first National Hockey League playoff berth in almost a decade. Most of the players were showered and dressed and ready for a flight to Florida. The arena had emptied and gone quiet, and in the basement hallway next to the door, Leafs general manager Dave Nonis was talking about James Reimer, a player who was perhaps most responsible for the smiling outbreak.
“He’s been fantastic,” Nonis said. (Photo: Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press)
Dressed to impress, Canada curling fans cheer during an evening draw at the World Men’s Curling Championship in Victoria, B.C. Tuesday, April 2, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
They are real fans.
For some Toronto Blue Jays fans, great expectations breed great impatience.
By the second inning of the first game of the greatest season in Blue Jays history, dark murmurs began to waft from the sellout crowd of 48,857. Catcher J.P. Arencibia had just struck out, aggravating a greater sin: already, he had been charged with three passed balls in his bid to corral R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball. Two had marred an inning in which the Cleveland Indians scored twice.
Mind you, the grumblers could not have been delighted with Dickey either in the Blue Jays’ 4-1 loss. He walked four, a plateau he reached only twice last year when he won the National League Cy Young Award. Only one of the walks turned into a run. He also gave up a towering two-run homer to Asdrubal Cabrera. (Photos: Tyler Anderson/National Post)
REUNITED: Jarome Iginla is now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, in case you went to bed at a decent hour. It was a strange night: At one point, the media was all but certain the Flames captain was headed for the Boston Bruins … but that was not the case. (Photo: The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh)
