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Jim Midgley was the head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads in 2017-18. - Halifax Mooseheads

Mooseheads fire head coach Jim Midgley and assistant coach Liam Heelis

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Jim Midgley is out again as head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads. The QMJHL team announced his dismissal on Tuesday, along with assistant coach Liam Heelis. Assistant coach Brad MacKenzie will remain with the team. "After lengthy discussions with ...

Trevor Reddick’s nephew Dondre Reddick is the newest family star athlete suiting up for X-Men’s basketball. Dondre and his teammates went to the national final recently before falling to the Carleton University Ravens. File

BASKETBALL: St. F.X.'s Reddick, Thomas and Dal's Christie get pro opportunities

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Three AUS basketball stars will get a taste of the pro game this spring and summer. League most valuable player Malcolm Christie of the Dalhousie Tigers and Dondre Reddick and Koat Thomas of the St. Francis Xavier X-Men were picked in the top 15 of ...

Pacific FC keeper Emil Gazdov makes a save in front of Halifax Wanderers forward Ryan Telfer during the Canadian Premier League season opener Saturday afternoon in Langford, B.C. Pacific won the match 1-0. - CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

‘We were very unlucky not to get a point out of this’ – Wanderers lose 1-0 in season opener at Pacific FC

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 14, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Patrice Gheisar has a glass half-full kind of approach to coaching. Despite his Halifax Wanderers dropping a 1-0 decision to Pacific FC in their 2024 Canadian Premier League season opener on Saturday, the second-year head coach found plenty of ...

Katie Pegg, who was born without a radial bone in her right forearm, throws shot put for Saint Mary's at the Atlantic university track and field championships in Moncton in February. Pegg returned to the sport this year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. - SMU ATHLETICS

Missing a bone in her arm, Katie Pegg is a shot put champion, possible Paris Paralympian

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |9 min read Premium content

Katie Pegg smiles at the face of adversity. Born without a radial bone in her right forearm, Pegg played eight years of football in her hometown of Scarborough, Ont., the lone girl among over 300 players in the minor program. She also threw shot put ...

Pittsburgh Penguins centre Sidney Crosby holds the puck from his 1,000th career assist. - Pittsburgh Penguins

Sidney Crosby hitting new career heights while making miracles for Penguins

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

Sometimes for Sidney Crosby, when it rains it pours. The Pittsburgh Penguins centre hit two major milestones and lifted his team to a monumental win all at once on Thursday night. The 36-year-old from Cole Harbour's overtime pass to Erik Karlsson on ...

Mathieu Cataford takes warm-up with the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League. - Henderson Silver Knights

Mooseheads' Mathieu Cataford makes jump to pro hockey

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

The Halifax Mooseheads may be done for the year but their leading scorer is still playing hockey. Mathieu Cataford suited up for his first-ever pro game on Wednesday after joining the AHL's Henderson Silver Knights. The Silver Knights are the farm ...

Cam MacDonald of the Cape Breton Eagles, right, attempts a shot on goal during Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action at Centre 200 in Sydney earlier this season. MacDonald says he wants to be more consistent when it comes to his offensive production the rest of the season. JEREMY FRASER/CAPE BRETON POST

QMJHL PLAYOFFS: Round two predictions - Eagles among teams picked to advance

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

The big story from the first round of the QMJHL playoffs was the elimination of the Halifax Mooseheads and Moncton Wildcats. The Mooseheads lost in four straight to the Bathurst Titan and the Wildcats followed suit against the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.

New Halifax Wanderers defender Julian Dunn has played in the Canadian Premier League before. He was loaned by Toronto FC to Valour FC for the 2020 Island Games, the league’s five-week COVID bubble tournament held in Charlottetown. - CANADIAN PERMIER LEAGUE

After missing nearly two seasons in Norway with knee injury, Julian Dunn restarts soccer career with Wanderers

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

After a devastating knee injury stripped nearly two seasons of his promising soccer career overseas, Julian Dunn gets a restart on home soil with the Halifax Wanderers. The six-foot-three defender from Toronto was just five games into his first ...

Colorado Avalanche linemates Nathan MacKinnon, right, and Jonathan Drouin, left, celebrate a goal against the Minnesota Wild at Ball Arena in Denver on Tuesday. - Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports

Latest exploits push MacKinnon, Drouin to new career heights: 'I thought we were playing in Halifax (again)'

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

The fans in Denver broke out the 'MVP' chants after another superhuman performance by Nathan MacKinnon on Tuesday. The 28-year-old Colorado Avalanche star put his next-level speed on full display in a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Wild, blowing by ...

Diana Matheson, left, of Canada battles for the ball with Tobin Heath of the U.S. during the first half of their friendly women's soccer match in Toronto, June 2, 2013. - REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Halifax lands franchise in new Canadian professional women's soccer league

Willy Palov · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 9, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Professional women's soccer is coming to Halifax. The Atlantic Women's Football Club announced its formal entry on Tuesday into a new Canadian professional women's soccer league, which is scheduled to open play in 2025. "We are delighted to bring ...

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