National Sports

HALIFAX — When Halifax Mooseheads players laced up their skates for the first time, the team was a gamble. It was the first Quebec Major Junior Hockey League club in the Maritimes, and the city had just lost its American Hockey League franchise.

SEATTLE — Bobby Wagner leaped over the line of scrimmage, swatted Dan Bailey's field goal attempt and sparked the Seattle Seahawks to two late touchdowns. Whether or not what Wagner did was entirely legal, he frankly didn't care.

Monday's Games NFL Seattle 21 Minnesota 7 --- NHL Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Islanders 1 (SO) Tampa Bay 6 N.Y.

Monday's Games NFL Seattle 21 Minnesota 7 --- NHL Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Islanders 1 (SO) Tampa Bay 6 N.Y.

TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning are piling up points.

DENVER — An independent report details a toxic pattern of bureaucratic paralysis among Olympic leaders who reacted slowly, if at all, after they knew Larry Nassar was suspected of molesting young gymnasts. From the top office at the U.S.

VANCOUVER — A stark message sporadically popped up on Mike DiPietro's phone over the past year. "Got cut from world juniors," it read.

Toronto FC's Sebastian Giovinco and Jonathan Osorio are up for CONCACAF male player of the year while Seattle Reign forward Adriana Leon, like Osorio a Canadian international, is nominated for top female player.

MONTREAL — Jonathan Marchessault of the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights has paid $2-million for a lakefront house near his Quebec City hometown with the goal of tearing it down.

CALGARY — The prosecution has wrapped up its case against the man accused of fatally shooting a member of the Calgary Stampeders two years ago. The Crown called four witnesses Monday in the second-degree murder trial of Nelson Lugela.