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The Canadian team has hit the water this week in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, for the 2018 world rowing championships.

There are few things in sport as meaningless as Western Hockey League preseason results. That is especially so with 116 WHL players, all eligible to return, away at National Hockey League training camps.

VANCOUVER ISLAND 32 WESTSHORE 17 The Westshore Rebels and Vancouver Island Raiders are headed in opposite directions, and it showed Saturday afternoon at Caledonia Park in Nanaimo.

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Cam Thompson knows a thing or two about season openers. He should. He鈥檒l take part in his third sa国际传媒 Hockey League one tonight when his Victoria Grizzlies visit Hap Parker Arena to take on the Powell River Kings.

BOSTON 鈥� There were few times in Steve Nash鈥檚 basketball career when he wasn鈥檛 an underdog.

Solid, veteran goaltender: check. Mobile, skilled defencemen: check. Two high-powered offensive forward lines: check. An NHL draft pick: check. A future first-round NHL draft pick: check.

Rugby sa国际传媒鈥檚 plan to have one centralized pool of men鈥檚 players rather than having separate 15s and sevens training squads is off to a rocky start.

There鈥檚 plenty new in the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League this season, including in the Wolves鈥� den on the Westshore.

The old adage, 鈥淚t鈥檚 not whether you win or lose, it鈥檚 how you play the game鈥� was the attitude Victoria Royals head coach Dan Price took into the Western Hockey League club鈥檚 first two preseason games over the weekend.