National Sports

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — Canada will play for gold in both the women's and men's finals at the world senior curling championships. Sherry Anderson's Saskatoon rink beat Switzerland's Monika Gafner 7-3 in the women's semifinal Friday.

TORONTO — The Grey Cup-champion Toronto Argonauts were among four teams that exceeded the CFL's salary cap last season, the league announced Friday. The others were the Montreal Alouettes, Ottawa Redblacks and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

MONTREAL — With two consecutive wins and cleans sheets under their belt, CF Montreal will be riding a wave of momentum and hoping to exact revenge against Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening.

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — Canada's Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing will play for the bronze medal after falling 6-2 to the United States in a semifinal match at the world mixed doubles curling championship on Friday. The U.S.

Last year's Stanley Cup runner-up Tampa Bay Lightning extended their stay in the playoffs. Now the reigning champion Colorado Avalanche will have to do the same.

LAS VEGAS — Jets coach Rick Bowness stepped on the dais in the T-Mobile Arena media room and declared his post-game availability was going to be short and sweet. He wasn't kidding.

Thursday's Scoreboard NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 2 (Toronto leads best-of-seven series 3-2) New Jersey 4 N.Y.

TORONTO — The Maple Leafs felt they were equal to the moment. The battle-tested, desperate, championship-calibre roster on the other side was just a little bit better.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Ondrej Palat got the New Jersey Devils on the scoreboard early and they had shut down the New York Rangers the rest of the way to move one win away from advancing to the second round.

TORONTO — There were many questions swirling around the Tampa Bay Lightning after they coughed up back-to-back comeback victories to the Toronto Maple Leafs in their first-round playoff series.