{allcanada} Jets’ Namestnikov, Niederreiter out week-to-week with injuries

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Winnipeg Jets must deal with two significant injuries to their forwards as they attempt to get back into the playoff race in the Western Conference.

Centre Vladislav Namestnikov is considered week-to-week with a lower-body injury suffered during Friday's loss to the Anaheim Ducks while winger Nino Niederreiter recently had surgery on his lower-body injury and is also considered week-to-week.

Namestnikov, 33, has seven goals and six assists over 57 games this season. Niederreiter, 33, has eight goals and 11 assists over 55 games.

Star forward Mark Scheifele missed Saturday's practice due to maintenance, but appears ready to play Sunday against the San Jose Sharks in California.

The 32-year-old native of Kitchener, Ont., has tallied 27 goals and 43 assists over 58 games in 2025-26.

No. 1 defenceman Josh Morrissey, who was injured at the Olympics playing for Team Canada skated in Winnipeg on Saturday.

The 30-year-old has 10 goals and 32 assists over 56 games.

A season after capturing the NHL's Presidents' Trophy, the Jets have struggled in 2025-26, currently sitting eight points out of playoff spot in the Western Conference with 24 games remaining in the season.

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{allcanada} Ski cross star Howden back on top of the podium with World Cup win

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KOPAONIK — After recent disappointments at the Milan Cortina Olympics and on the World Cup circuit, Canadian ski cross star Reece Howden returned his familiar perch on the top of the podium.

Howden, from Chilliwack, B.C., skied to victory at a World Cup event Saturday, rebounding from a frustrating Friday race in which was the only skier to cross the finish line but was disqualified for a line deviation.

He dedicated his win to teammate Kevin Drury, who was injured in a crash Friday resulting from Howden making contact with Germany's Florian Wilmsmann.

"Today wasn't about me, it's about Kevin Drury," Howden said. "I'm pretty broke up by what happened yesterday.

"I would have loved to spend more time skiing with Kevin Drury. I feel so honoured to have been a teammate with Kevin, shared the podium with him, travelled the world, and got to learn from a guy like that."

Toronto's Drury, 37, finished second in Friday's race but was injured in the pileup that also took out Wilmsmann and eventual winner Tim Hronek.

After the race, Drury wrote on Instagram that it was "not the way I wanted my career to end, but I'll take the podium."

The post included a photo of Drury lying in bed with his lower leg heavily bandaged and elevated. He has said that his 10th World Cup season will also be his last.

"Whether it's stuff outside of skiing, when it comes to personal life and relationships, Kevin Drury has been a huge role model for me," Howden said.

"Today I wasn't doing it for me, I was doing it for him. So when we're up there and we're singing O Canada, don't be singing O Canada for me, sing O Canada for Kevin Drury."

Howden finished ahead of Wilmsmann and France's Youri Duplessis Kergomard in Saturday's race to pick up his record 23rd World Cup men's ski cross victory.

"Ending this trip on a podium, another second place, it's superb," Wilmsmann said. "I wanted to give it all for the win, but Reece had really good speed in the last section. I made a little mistake in the last turn, and you have to ski perfectly to get him."

Howden leads the overall World Cup men's ski cross standings with 743 points, followed by Wilmsmann at 574.

He is seeking his second straight Crystal Globe as overall champion, and fourth overall.

Howden is coming off a frustrating experience at the Winter Games, where he was tabbed as a gold-medal hopeful but failed to advance out of the men's ski cross quarterfinals.

After his elimination he ripped off his race bib and heavily criticized the slow conditions at Livigno Snow Park.

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{allcanada} Kreider beats Hellebuyck in OT to lift the Ducks past the Jets, 5-4

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Chris Kreider beat Connor Hellebuyck off a rebound at 4:47 of overtime to give the Anaheim Ducks a 5-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night.

Beckett Sennecke kept the puck and shot on a two-on-one break, with Kreider backhanding the loose puck in at the side of the net.

After Leo Carlsson, Pavel Mintyukov and Ryan Poehling scored third-period goals to give Anaheim a 4-3 lead, Winnipeg's Kyle Connor tied it with 1:22 left and Hellebuyck off for an extra attacker.

Hellebuyck made 35 saves in his first game since backstopping the United States to Olympic gold.

Jacob Trouba also scored for Anaheim, Sennecke had three assists and Lukas Dostal made 29 saves. The Ducks have won seven in a row at home and 11 of 13 overall.

Anaheim won two nights after returning from the break to beat Edmonton at home for coach Joel Quenneville's 1,000th NHL victory. The Ducks have five games left on a nine-game homestand.

Winnipeg rookie defenseman Elias Salomonsson had his first NHL goal and Alex Iafallo and Gabriel Vilardi also scored. Well back in the race for a playoff spot, Winnipeg has a game left on three-game trip before an eight-game homestand.

Jets: At San Jose on Sunday.

Ducks: Host Calgary on Sunday.

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{allcanada} Macklin Celebrini's father on gold-medal loss: 'It's fuel'

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After a stellar Olympic debut with five goals and five assists in just six games as a 19-year-old, it's safe to say Macklin Celebrini will probably be among those representing Canada in the French Alps in 2030.

However, the end goal for Celebrini and Team Canada fell short after they lost to the U.S.A in the gold-medal game 2-1 in overtime.

Macklin Celebrini's father, Rick, who's the director of sports medicine for the Golden State Warriors, believes the gut-wrenching loss will add extra motivation to take home gold in four years.

"He was inconsolable after the game, he was upset, he was upset at himself, he was upset at the results," said Rick Celebrini at a Warriors press conference on Friday." I think that, with a lot of athletes, it's fuel, and I really do think it's a motivator for him. I'm sure it's a long way to be thinking about it, but four years from now that will be part of additional motivation to prepare, to be ready and to hopefully influence a different outcome."

Macklin Celebrini wowed all hockey fans on the international stage with his performance in the tournament, earning a nod to the Olympic all-star team and finishing second among all players in scoring behind teammate Connor McDavid and his record 13 points.

His play in the gold-medal game was exceptional, too, with him logging six shots on net.

But while the gold medal is missing from the trophy case, Celebrini's father thinks he should be happy with the effort the Canadians put in.

"He was almost competitive to a fault and probably loses perspective in the moment, but I think at this point he can look back and be proud of his team and himself and to say that they put their best foot forward and played their butts off and lost to a better team that day," said Rick Celebrini.

The Olympic stage is not the only place Macklin Celebrini has been dominating, as the young phenom has his San Jose Sharks just five points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference on the back of his fourth-most 81 points.

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