Montreal’s Jake Evans played for the first time in nearly a month in Monday’s Stanley Cup Final opener — but didn’t want to talk about the hit by Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele that left him with a concussion. Evans did say that Scheifele reached out to him.
Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist in Monday’s Game 1 win to reach 30 points in only 19 playoff games, a mark only Evgeni Malkin (2009) reached faster in the past 25 years.
He led Germany to a World Cup win in 2014 amid a string of impressive runs at major tournaments, but Joachim Low’s 15-year tenure is difficult to define.
Canada, led by Andrew Wiggins and RJ Barrett, and Serbia, spurred by Boban Marjanovic, were among the winners as Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments began Tuesday.
Houston Harding and Preston Johnson combined on a four-hitter, and Mississippi State capitalized on struggling Vanderbilt pitching in a 13-2 victory Tuesday night that forced a deciding third game in the College World Series finals.