National Sports

MONTREAL — Brandon Hagel had a three-point performance as the Tampa Bay Lightning began a four-game road trip with a decisive a 5-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin called for fans to throw hats on to the ice to celebrate a three-goal performance not from him but rather one of his least likely teammates to pull that off.

OTTAWA — Logan Morrison scored twice as the Hamilton Bulldogs downed the Ottawa 67's 3-1 in Ontario Hockey League action on Saturday. Cole Brown also scored for Hamilton, while Brad Gardiner scored Ottawa's lone marker.

VICTORIAVILLE — Nathan Darveau earned a shutout as Victoriaville downed the Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-0 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League play on Saturday. Maxime Pellerin scored twice for Victoriaville, while Egor Goriunov added a single.

AMHERST, N.Y. — Shiann Darkangelo scored two goals, including the winner, as the visiting Toronto Six topped the Buffalo Beauts 6-4 in Professional Hockey Federation action on Saturday.

LONDON, Ont. — London Knights centre Abakar Kazbekov has died, the team and Ontario Hockey League announced via Twitter on Saturday. According to multiple media reports, Kazbekov died Saturday morning after falling from a downtown apartment building.

COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Rachel Karker's gold led a four-medal day for Canada in the season-opening World Cup freestyle halfpipe Saturday. Karker of Erin, Ont., and Calgary's Amy Fraser finished one-two in women's pipe in Copper Mountain, Colo.

EDMONTON — Lukas Dostal is making the most of his promotion to the big leagues.

CALGARY — Laurent Dubreuil says his bad races still have to be good in order to defend his World Cup speedskating title in the men's 500 metres.

Hockey Canada has a new board of directors. Now the real work begins. The embattled national sport organization's members elected a slate of candidates to fill nine vacant board seats Saturday. Retired judge Hugh L.