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WINNIPEG — There was a brief moment of locker-room levity after the Jets had just blown a chance to clinch a spot in the Western Conference final for the first time in franchise — and the city's — history.

If the Winnipeg Jets are going to be the first Canadian NHL team in a quarter of a century to win a Stanley Cup, they'll have to buck a recent trend of this country's clubs losing the seventh game of a playoff series.

TAMPA, Fla. — Super Bowl-winning Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is the next inductee into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Ring of Honor.

MONTREAL — Joe Scannella, who coached the Montreal Alouettes to two Grey Cup games in the 1970s, has died, the CFL club announced Tuesday. The team was informed by a family member that Scannella, who was 89, died Thursday in California.

The workouts remain essentially the same, but Jeremiah Masoli's mindset this off-season has been much different. For the first time in his pro career, Masoli prepared for a season knowing he was a starter.

TORONTO — Kyle Lowry called it a wasted season. DeMar DeRozan said it was the low point of his NBA career.

MADRID — Milos Raonic defeated third-seed Grigor Dimitrov on Tuesday at the Madrid Open to set up an all-Canadian third-round match with teenager Denis Shapovalov. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont.

SASKATOON — Humboldt Bronco forward Kaleb Dahlgren remembers putting on his suit during the bus ride to a playoff game, returning to his seat and asking his friend and teammate, Nick Shumlanski, to point out his family's house along the highway.

TORONTO — Saskatchewan comedian Kelly Taylor was booked for a cancer benefit outside Saskatoon the day after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. But as the tragic headlines poured in, the passionate hockey fan struggled to find his lighter side.

Swayze Waters' off-season workouts are not so lonely anymore. Now when he's on the field kicking or working out, Waters is often joined by Taitum, his 18-month-old son.