National Sports

MONTREAL — Canada's first NHL crowd in nearly 15 months put on a show early Saturday as their team — propelled by the energy inside the Bell Centre — attacked in waves.

MONTREAL — It was a scene 444 days in the making. Smiling, jersey-clad Canadian hockey fans — with tickets bought and paid for — enjoying beers and sunshine before heading into an NHL arena on a spring evening.

BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak got his second career playoff hat trick, David Krejci had four assists and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Saturday night in the opening game of their second-round playoff series.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Steve Stricker took advantage of Mike Weir's back-nine collapse Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Senior PGA Championship.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jordan Spieth knows how to finish out of the rough, and still had the lead after three rounds at Colonial. After hitting his final drive Saturday into the thick grass on an incline right of the No.

GLENVIEW, Ill. — Canada's Adam Svensson is third heading into the final round of the Korn Ferry Tour's Evans Scholars Invitational. Svensson, from Surrey, B.C.

CALGARY — Sarah Potomak scored twice in the third period to lead Calgary's Team Scotiabank over Toronto’s Team Sonnet 3-2 in the final preliminary round match at the Secret Dream Gap Tour women's hockey tournament Saturday.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Indians postponed Saturday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays due to high winds, forcing Cleveland to play doubleheaders on consecutive days.

Two Canadian athletes from different worlds met Saturday because of a combination of the best and the worst in human nature.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Toronto FC goes into Major League Soccer's international break with plenty of troubling questions on and off the field. Saturday's 2-1 loss to the Columbus Crew dropped Toronto's record to 1-4-2 in MLS play.