{allcanada} Rossi scores with 9.5 seconds left in regulation, Canucks beat Ducks 4-3

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Marco Rossi scored with 9.5 seconds left in overtime to help the Vancouver Canucks beat Anaheim 4-3 on Sunday night and prevent the Anaheim Ducks from clinching a playoff spot.

Anaheim has 90 points and can secure a playoff spot with a win Tuesday at Minnesota.

Curtis Douglas, Jake DeBrusk and Brock Boeser each added a goal for Vancouver. The Canucks' 56 points this season are the fewest in the NHL, 17 fewer than Calgary, the next closest. Nikita Tolopilo had 24 saves.

Cutter Gauthier scored two goals and Leo Carlsson added a goal for the Ducks. Gauthier has a career-high 40 goals this season. The 22-year-old is the fourth player in franchise history to score 40-plus goals in a single season.

Rossi scored with a one-timer from the right circle that beat goaltender Lukas Dostal glove side to win it. Dostal finished with 22 saves.

Gauthier opened the scoring at 3:41 of the first period.

Douglas answered about 10 minutes later and DeBrusk added a power-play goal with 5:23 left until the first intermission that gave Vancouver a 2-1 lead.

Boeser beat Dostal one on one for a short-handed goal at 4:28 of the third period, but Gauthier answered with his second goal 37 seconds later and Carlson made it 3-3 with 13:04 left in regulation.

Canucks: Host Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Ducks: Visit Minnesota on Tuesday.

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{allcanada} Oilers recall forward Isaac Howard from AHL

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The Edmonton Oilers are giving one of their top young forwards a look with the regular season winding down.

The team recalled Isaac Howard from the AHL's Bakersfield Condors on Sunday.

In his first professional season, Howard has been a standout in the American Hockey League, recording 22 goals and 47 points in 45 games with Bakersfield.

The 22-year-old has also appeared in 28 games with Edmonton, scoring two goals and five points and last played in the NHL back on Jan. 24.

Selected 31st overall in the 2022 NHL Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning, Howard was acquired by the Oilers in exchange for Sam O’Reilly, who was selected 32nd overall in the 2024 entry draft.

Edmonton clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday after the Winnipeg Jets lost to the Philadelphia Flyers.

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{allcanada} Gray, Clemens both homer to power Twins to win over Blue Jays

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TORONTO — Tristan Gray belted a three-run homer and Kody Clemens added a solo shot to spark the Minnesota Twins to an 8-2 win in the rubber match of their series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

Gray’s 396-foot blast came in the second inning. Clemens led off the third with a 417-foot monster, the first of a five-run inning as the Twins (9-7) sent 10 batters to the plate and won for the sixth time in seven outings before 37,804 at Rogers Centre.

Both right-field bombs were off Toronto starter Max Scherzer (1-2) as the Blue Jays (6-9) won just twice in their six-game homestand.

Scherzer departed after 68 pitches with the Twins ahead 6-1 with two on and one out in the third. He was responsible for eight runs on five hits with two walks, a hit batter and three strikeouts.

Left-hander Joe Mantiply replaced Scherzer, yielding a two-run double from Brooks Lee.

Twins starter Taj Bradley (3-0) managed five innings. In his 106-pitch effort, Bradley surrendered a run on five hits with four walks and seven strikeouts.

Andrew Morris, 24, made his major-league debut in relief of Bradley. Morris went three innings, giving up a one-out seventh-inning sacrifice fly to Jesus Sanchez that scored Ernie Clement.

Takeaways

Blue Jays: Daulton Varsho knocked in Clement in the first. With two singles and a double, he went an impressive 8-for-23 with three walks and five RBIs in the homestand.

Twins: Dating back to August 2017, they have homered in 26 straight games, 55 homers in total, at Rogers Centre.

Key moment

With Varsho on second and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on first with one out in the third, Bradley snuffed out a potential Toronto rally by striking out Sanchez and getting Kazuma Okamoto to fly out to centre.

Key stat

After sweeping their season-opening series against the Oakland Athletics, the Blue Jays have lost their last four series. Toronto was 8-7 after the 15-game mark in 2025.

Up next

Twins: Begin three-game series at home against the Boston Red Sox on Monday.

Blue Jays: Have a day off before beginning a three-game series in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Toronto’s Kevin Gausman (0-1) is slated to start the series opener.

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{allcanada} Raptors hammer Nets to finish fifth in East, will play Cavs in first round of playoffs

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TORONTO — Scottie Barnes had a triple-double as the Toronto Raptors routed the Brooklyn Nets 136-101 on Sunday to clinch a playoff spot in the NBA’s Eastern Conference.

Barnes had 18 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists as Toronto (46-36) won its regular-season finale to sew up fifth in the East.

The Raptors win coupled with losses by the Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks on Sunday jumped up to fifth in the standings and will face the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs.

RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., led the Raptors with 26 points and Brandon Ingram added 25 points with nine rebounds.

Starting Toronto point guard Immanuel Quickley didn’t return to the court after intermission due to tightness in his right hamstring. He had four points, five assists and two rebounds in 17 minutes of play.

Chaney Johnson had a double-double off the bench with 16 points and 13 rebounds as Brooklyn (20-62) finished its season with three consecutive losses. E.J. Liddell had 17 points and Ben Saraf had 15 points.

Takeaways

Nets: Brooklyn’s season ended with a whimper as head coach Jordi Fernandez had to run a short bench with just nine players touching the court for most of the game. The Nets had 10 players on their injury report heading into Sunday’s finale.

Raptors: Needing a win to avoid the play-in tournament, all of Toronto’s players except Chucky Hepburn (right knee surgery) were made available. The Raptors had an excellent shooting night, going 51-for-81 (63 per cent) on field-goal attempts and 12-for-27 (44.4 per cent) on three-pointers.

Key moment

A.J. Lawson of Brampton, Ont., whose two-way contract was made into an NBA contract by Toronto earlier in the week, drained a 26-foot three-pointer with 4:58 left in the third quarter for a 19-point Raptors lead.

Key stat

Barnes’s triple-double was the third of his season and ninth of his career. He’s the first player in Raptors history to have three or more triple-doubles in multiple seasons.

Up next

Toronto will play Cleveland but the date of the first game of that series has not been announced.

Brooklyn, the Washington Wizards and the Indiana Pacers have the best odds of winning the first overall pick in the NBA’s Draft Lottery on May 10.

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