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The Edmonton Oilers are looking to even-up the NHL's Western Conference final tonight in Dallas with the Stars up one-game-to-none.

The Florida Panthers took a two-games-to-none lead in the Eastern Conference final with a 5-0 win over the Carolina Hurricanes last night. 

Canada's OUT of the World Men's Hockey Championship. Denmark came from behind to beat Canada 2-1 yesterday in quarter-final action. The Danes tied it up in the final minutes and scored the winner with just 49 seconds left.

THURSDAY, MAY 22ND

NHL
Playoffs - Best of 7
Eastern Conference Finals
Game 2
Florida 5 Carolina 0
Florida leads series 2-0

PWHL
Walter Cup Finals - Best of 5
Game 2
Minnesota 2 Ottawa 1 (Overtime)
Series tied 1-1

American Association of Professional Baseball
Milwaukee 7 Winnipeg 4

After a convincing tournament win, Pat Tetrault's Braves won the Zone 13 MHSAA girls softball championship and will be heading to provincials in Stonewall at the end of May.

"We've had the luxury of having a pretty good team this season," Tetrault says with a proud smile. "Girls have been working hard since early April. They came in, got to work hitting balls, getting ready for the short high school season. We had a pretty good showing at the Zone 13 tournament."

THURSDAY, MAY 22ND

Manitoba High School Athletic Association
Soccer (Wednesday)
SRSS Boys 4 vs NPC Winkler 1
NPC Girls 1 vs SRSS 0

NHL
Playoffs - Best of 7
Eastern Conference Finals
Game 2
Florida 5 at Carolina 0
Florida leads series 2-0

THURSDAY, MAY 22ND

NHL
Playoffs - Best of 7
Eastern Conference Finals
Game 2
Florida 5 at Carolina 0
Florida leads series 2-0

PWHL
Walter Cup Finals - Best of 5
Game 2
Minnesota 2 at Ottawa 1 (Overtime)
Series tied 1-1

American Association of Professional Baseball
Milwaukee 7 at Winnipeg 4

THURSDAY, MAY 22ND

Manitoba Soccer Association
U17G Morden Eagles 3 vs Sturgeon Heights 0

NHL
Playoffs - Best of 7
Eastern Conference Finals
Game 2
Florida 5 at Carolina 0
Florida leads series 2-0

PWHL
Walter Cup Finals - Best of 5
Game 2
Minnesota 2 at Ottawa 1 (Overtime)
Series tied 1-1

While the season has come to an end for the Winnipeg Jets after a devastating 2-1 overtime loss in Dallas, team owner says Winnipeg fans are the best in the league. 

"The past several weeks of playoff hockey created a wide range of emotions for all of us," Mark Chipman said in a post shared to Facebook.

A trio of local judokans hit the mat on the national stage late last week.

Talon Moen, Eliot Perrault, and Blake Rempel of the Swift Current Judo Club represented Judo Saskatchewan at the 2025 Open Nationals Judo Championships held from May 15 to 18 at Calgary's Olympic Oval.

Nancy Filteau, the head instructor with the Swift Current Judo Club and one of the Judo Saskatchewan coaches, said, unfortunately, they returned home without medals, but the event can be used as a building block for her local students.

The 15U AAA East Central Dodgers squeaked out a walk off 7-6 victory against the Saskatoon Expos last night.  

Sawyer Pollon knocked in the game winning run with a single in the bottom of the seventh inning.  

Reid Griffith picked up the win on the mound for the Dodgers.  

The 15U AA Watrous Lakers picked up an 8-5 win over the 15U AA East Central Dodgers on Wednesday night in Humboldt. 

Daxton Hoppenreys led the Lakers at the plate with three hits, a pair of RBIs and two runs scored. Jayce Lockie also had two RBIs.  

For East Central, Dryden Knittig, Hunter Korte, and Kade Comfort each had two hits.  

Watrous stormed out of the gates, picking up four runs through the first three innings.