The Ottawa Senators couldn't have asked for a better start to the regular season. Not only did they beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Thursday, they signed Brady Tkachuk to a seven-year contract extension hours earlier.

Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews is expected to miss the first three games of the regular season as he continues to recover from wrist surgery.

With a strong core anchored by some of the game's top young players, Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins is feeling bullish about the team's possibilities entering the off-season.

In the battle for Toronto Raptors roster spots and playing time, Malachi Flynn and Sam Dekker made solid cases on Tuesday.

It goes down as just a win but it means much, much more than that to head coach Ryan Dinwiddie and the Toronto Argonauts.

Toronto FC is on a roll, unbeaten in five games (4-0-1) in all competitions having outscored the opposition 12-4 along the way. But the fact that Toronto (6-15-7) remains in 13th place in the MLS Eastern Conference underlines just how big a hole TFC has dug for itself this season.

Calgary featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu will be looking for his sixth straight UFC win when he takes on unbeaten Russian Movsar Evloev at UFC 263 on June 12.