MANALAPAN, Fla. — NHL general managers should have the ability to reach deeper into their pockets next season. The league says the projected salary cap for 2018-19 will be somewhere between US$78 million and $82 million, up from the current $75 million. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman made the announcement this morning as the board of…

SAINT-JEROME, Que. — Former national ski coach Bertrand Charest has been given a 12-year prison term for sexually assaulting teenage girls he trained. With time already served in detention since 2015, Charest has seven years and 10 months left in the sentence. A judge handed down the sentence in a courtroom north of Montreal this…

NAGOYA, Japan — Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada landed all of her jumps cleanly and led the Grand Prix final after the women’s short program with 77.04 points. “I felt really controlled and I felt the program was really myself,” Osmond was quoted on the ISU’s website. “I really wanted to get another clean program done,…

TORONTO — Citing health issues, Georges St-Pierre is giving up his newly won UFC middleweight title. The 36-year-old from Montreal won the 185-pound crown Nov. 4 when he dethroned Michael Bisping at UFC 217 in New York. It was the first fight for St-Pierre, the former welterweight title-holder, since he stepped away from the sport…

TORONTO — The pest likes to text. Matthew Tkachuk, the shift-disturbing winger who earned a one-game suspension last month for inciting a line brawl against the Detroit Red Wings, uses slashes, spears and well-timed hits to get under the skin of opponents. But he tends to do his biggest damage with his smartphone. Forget on-ice…

Say hello to the Metropolitans 2.0. Or will it be the resurrected Breakers? Or the Supersonics? Or Starbucks? Whatever the potential team ends calling itself, the National Hockey League appears to be heading back to the state of Washington. The league’s Board of Governors agreed to consider an expansion application from Seattle during its annual…