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"Wondering if I could get a short extension on this week's reflection," the email read. "I was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought it was due on Sunday, not Friday."

Like Easton Cowan, this will likely be Dennis Hildeby's final season seen as a prospect in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. The hulking 6-foot-7 goaltender got his first taste of NHL action in 2024-25, only two years after being drafted in the fourth round of the 2022 NHL draft, and while his short stint last season revealed that he still needed some seasoning in the AHL, he has shown through 19 games in 2025-26 that he's ready to be an NHL goaltender. And, if he wasn't a victim of the numbers game with both Joseph Woll and Anthony Stolarz signed to multi-year deals, he'd probably still be with the team.

With a warrant out for his arrest, Lutts hosted monthly trivia nights at a Toronto bar and provided relationship advice to clients as a self-styled psychic. His arrest in February 2025 by Toronto police's fugitive squad came after a Crime Stoppers-type service in Florida received an anonymous tip about his whereabouts in November 2023. The tip appears to have come from a U.S.-based internet sleuth who claims to have used facial recognition technology and social media clues to track Lutts to Toronto.

Francis Jobin in the men's snowboarding big air qualifications at Livigno Snow Park on Thursday. Jobin, in his Olympics debut, is the sole Canadian to make it to the final 12. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images via Reuters) Canadian men's downhill skier Jack Crawford missed the podium in the final at Bormio's Stelvio course. At 10 a.m. ET, Canadian Isabelle Weidemann will compete for gold in the 3000-metre speed skating final. Abigail Strate will compete in ski jumping normal hill at 12:45 p.m. ET.

At the curling station in the gymnasium, students pushed forward little benches on wheels that they use in gym class instead of using curling stones. The school also created a scoreboard. "Not everything is perfect," Robin said. Upstairs, there was an ice fishing station, where the school set up cardboard boxes with white construction paper meant to look like snow on the outside. It magnetized fish and seals and put them inside.

A 12-year-old boy who died while in the care of two Ontario women was wrongly and excessively prescribed medications by several doctors who didn't assess him in person, according to a lawsuit filed by his biological family. His younger brother experienced the same overprescribing while living with Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney in Burlington, the statement of claim alleges. The doctors clearly breached their professional duties, it says.

The Raptors 905 (11-5) returned to the friendly confines of Mississauga on Thursday and picked up a much-needed win, cruising past the Grand Rapids Gold (6-11) 137-109. A.J. Lawson led the charge, finishing with a team-high 29 points on 10-of-16 shooting as the 905 snapped a four-game skid, all on the road. The Brampton, Ont. native may have led the way, but was one of seven Raptors to finish in double-digits for scoring.

As Spring Training approaches, fans can gear up for some entertaining battles between current 40-man roster outfielders, competing for playing time in 2026. The likes of Nathan Lukes, Myles Straw, Davis Schneider, Jonatan Clase, and Addison Barger will all be in the mix, with the majority of those names likely resorting to bench roles, presuming everyone stays healthy. One wild card in this group is Joey Loperfido.

Toronto Blue Jays announcer Buck Martinez has announced his retirement, ending a career that saw the former big-league catcher call over 4,000 Blue Jays games over four-plus decades in the booth. Martinez made the announcement in a statement Friday, saying after conversations with his wife Arlene, that it was time to pass the torch. The 77-year-old from Redding, Calif., first joined the Blue Jays as a player in 1981 and spent his final six seasons with Toronto.

With the absence of Bo Bichette, Andres Gimenez appears to be the perfect candidate to fill the shortstop void for the foreseeable future. From 2022-2024, was the best defender in baseball, registering 7.9 BWAR, topping teammate , who posted a 7.7 mark during that same stretch. Though he has spent the majority of his career at second base, he possesses the tools necessary to make a full-time shift to shortstop and command the Blue Jays' infield defensively. Daulton Varsho

Earlier this week, the Seattle Mariners picked up a super utility player in Brendan Donovan. Maybe less emphasis on utility and more emphasis on super, because Donovan can play just about everywhere he's needed and produce at an above average rate. The Mariners, who were the last team standing in the American League alongside the Blue Jays, got a guy who could have been a useful replacement for the Blue Jays as they lost Bo Bichette to free agency.

The following season, Lukes had a cup of tea in the big leagues, playing 29 games where he had just 31 plate appearances. He hit below the Mendoza line, and failed to hit his first big league home run. With the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, Lukes slashed .366/.423/.530 with five home runs in 222 plate appearances that season. Lukes spent the majority of the 2024 season with the Bisons, slashing .335/.403/.463 with seven home runs in 243 plate appearances.

This may be what Rielly needs to get his season back on track. While dealing with an injury is never easy, taking a break from the team and playing could get Rielly back on the right track. The Leafs will need Rielly playing at his best if they want any chance of getting back within the playoff circle.

The 2025 draft wasn't the first time the Jays selected Bucknam in the draft. In the 2021 draft, the only Canadian team selected the right-handed pitcher from the Mennonite Educational Institute in Abbotsford, British Columbia. However, Bucknam elected to honour his commitment to Louisiana State University. Aside from pitching a summer in the MLB Draft League, Bucknam didn't pitch all that much in 2022. Instead, he made his college debut with LSU in 2023.

More than a year after a deadly home invasion in Mississauga, Peel police say seven people have been arrested, and three have been charged with murder. The arrests are the result of a "complex and lengthy" homicide investigation into the death of Ruo Zhou Wei, 55, police said in a news release Monday. Wei was shot inside his home near Central Parkway W. and Confederation Parkway just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2024. He later died in hospital.

I think it's the Blue Jays, with what they have done (this offseason) bringing in (Kazuma) Okamoto was great, but they matched up incredibly well against the Dodgers. You look at them in the World Series and statistically they were the better team, even though they couldn't pull it off in Game 7.

Speed is definitely a major component of his game as Cook has earned a scouting scale of 80 for his speed grade ahead of the 2025 MLB Draft. The Blue Jays would select the promising outfield prospect in the third round that year, No. 81 overall. But more importantly, he wants to show Toronto that his game isn't just about speed and that he could be a complete player. As per The Athletic, Cook would love to be "more like Byron Buxton" when he fully develops and matures, but that of course is still quite a ways away.

Provincial police say a 14-year-old is dead following a two-vehicle collision in Oxford County, Ont., Saturday. In a news release Saturday, Ontario Provincial Police said officers responded to reports of a collision between a snowmobile and a pickup truck in the area of Road 92 and 23rd Line in the Zorra township shortly after 10:30 a.m. The 14-year-old snowmobile operator was transported to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries, the OPP said.

His 2023 season wasn't as kind, as Varland had a 4.63 ERA and 5.02 FIP in 68 innings pitched, making 10 starts in 17 games. Varland's 2024 season was dismal, authoring a 7.61 ERA and 5.54 FIP in 49.2 innings pitched. Finally, the Twins made the decision to make Varland a full-time reliever, something that paid off well for the right-handed pitcher.

On Jan. 13, the council's panel had said it accepted the majority of allegations made in a complaint to the council against Currie and he was found to have engaged in judicial misconduct. "Since Justice Currie is no longer a judge of that court, the Council no longer has jurisdiction over the complaint about his conduct. As a result, the hearing on the appropriate disposition of the complaint will not proceed," the council says on its website.

An Ontario man who was a member of a neo-Nazi group and has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges told a Toronto judge Friday that he was a "complete monster at times," but has turned over a new leaf since his arrest in 2023. Matthew Althorpe said he regrets his past actions and extremist beliefs, as his lawyer Robb MacDonald asked Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly to consider a sentence of 12 to 14 years less than the 20 years sought by Crown prosecutors.