National Sports

MONTREAL — Charles Hamelin was a couple of days removed from becoming Canada's most decorated winter Olympian and was on his flight home from Beijing.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada has announced Stephane Julien will lead its men's under-18 team at the upcoming Hlinka Gretzky Cup.

Shawn Oakman isn't breathing a huge sigh of releif because the Toronto Argonauts defence won't have to contend with William Stanback on Thursday night.

HALLE, NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, GERMANY — Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime rode a dominant second set to a 7-6 (7), 6-1 victory over American Mackenzie McDonald on Wednesday at the Halle Open.

BERLIN — Canada's Bianca Andreescu was eliminated form the German Open grass-court tennis tournament with a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7) loss to fourth seed Karolina Pliskova in second-round action Wednesday.

LONDON — Canadian tennis player Denis Shapovalov had his losing streak extended to five matches Wednesday with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 loss to Tommy Paul at the Queen's Club grass-court event.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Decorated Olympian Penny Oleksiak has withdrawn from Canada's swim team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.

The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Dylan Gambrell to a one-year contract extension worth US$950,000.

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S.

SEATTLE (AP) — Raul Ruidiaz scored a goal in each half and the Seattle Sounders beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-0 on Tuesday night. The Sounders (6-6-1) also got goals from Alex Roldan and Nicolas Lodeiro.