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But that hasn't stopped Canadians from going a little Cup crazy. The nation known more for shooting pucks than penalty kicks fields a national team that ranks 110th in the world, tied with Bahrain.

Matt Herr won two national championships at the University of Michigan and played in the NHL for the Washington Capitals.

The Swedish power winger fell down the draft charts during the season and landed in the Flyers' laps in the fifth round.

REDS HONOR: On Sunday, Aug. 3 at Goddard Memorial State Park in Warwick, Richard Alan "Dick" Ernst, right - a one-time hockey and tennis columnist for the Cranston Herald - will receive the Rhode Island Reds Heritage Society's RI Native-born Hockey Achievement Award during the highly-acclaimed non-profit's 14th annual reunion.

Jan 24, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, USA; View of the NHL logo at Dodger Stadium. Preparations are in place on the day before the Stadium Series hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and the Anaheim Ducks at Dodger Stadium.

Melissa Tait / Winnipeg Free Press Bobby Hull in front of a display of his jersey at the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame.

But finally, after four years of summer development camps, John Gaudreau's next trip will be for this fall's Calgary Flames training camp.

A lot has changed in the city of Flint since the summer of 1957, when the Flint Olympian games were first played.

The two pop superstars were in Whistler last weekend for the wedding of their manager Scooter Braun, who discovered Bieber and Jepsen.

Buffalo native Patrick Kane has agreed to a contract extension with the Chicago Blackhawks reported to be worth more than $10 million per season.

Germany's astonishing 7-1 semi-final win over hosts Brazil in Tuesday's 2014 Fifa World Cup semi-final was arguably the biggest shock in football history.

The summer weather may be heating up, but who says that means hockey season is over? Grab your hockey stick, a few friends, a ball and a can of food and join the Five Hole for Food ball hockey games today on Sparks Street.

Bullas, 23, said: "I'm very happy to be back with the Wildcats for the new season, it was an easy decision to make.

Poonam Sandhu, a field hockey player with the UBC Thunderbirds women's team, has been named to the Canadian team that will compete at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

The teams of the second season of The Amazing Race Canada are off and running and proving to be as diverse as the Canadian landscape we'll see them trekking across over the next three months.

Doug Lidster, seen as part of Melody Davidson's staff for the Canadian women's hockey team in 2008, has coached at various levels of hockey.

Yesterday it was announced that Texas Stars assistant coach Doug Lidster will, as everyone thought all along, indeed join Willie Desjardins and the Vancouver Canucks.

Five athletes, including three-time Olympic gold medalist Kim St-Pierre of Chateauguay, Que., a former Montreal Canadiens forward and a pair of ex-Montreal Alouettes football players, have been selected for induction to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame.

Gylywoychuk, who coached the Wheat Kings during the 2012-13 WHL season, was named an assistant coach with Hockey Canada's national women's team and will also head the national women's development squad for 2014-15.

The Moose Jaw Bantam Mustangs achieved a lot this season, but came up just short of repeating as provincial champions.