As of 12:05 p.m. Wednesday, June 30 by Hartley Miller
PG Cougars:
The Prince George Cougars made two selections in the 2021 Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Import Draft today (Wednesday).
With their first selection, 23rd overall, the Cougars drafted 2003-born forward Liekit Reichle, who led his Swiss junior team in scoring with 75 points in 43 games. Reichle also played for Switzerland at the 2021 World Under-18 Hockey Championship in Texas and registered one goal in five games.
With their second pick, 104th overall, Prince George selected 2004-born defenceman Jozef Viliam Kmec. The 17-year-old Kmec played for the Slovakian U-18 National Team during the 2020-21 season.
Read up on our two CHL Import Draft selections, Liekit Reichle and Jozef Viliam Kmec, in our draft recap.#CHLImportDraft
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— PG Cougars (@PGCougars) June 30, 2021
PG Spruce Kings:
ACQUIRED: We have acquired F Jimmy Doyle (’02) from the Bismarck Bobcats of the North American Hockey League.
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— Prince George Spruce Kings (@SpruceKings) June 29, 2021
NHL:
Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers is the MVP of the NHL by a unanimous vote. McDavid averaged nearly two points per game to win the scoring race by 21 points. He is just the second unanimous Hart selection — joining Wayne Gretzky in 1982.
Connor McDavid wins his second career Hart Trophy. ?https://t.co/aLDslVOeac
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) June 29, 2021
Game 2 in the Stanley Cup final will start just after 5:00 tonight (Wednesday) in Tampa Bay. The defending champion Lightning took the opener 5-1 over the Montreal Canadiens. The best-of-seven series will shift to Montreal for Game 3 on Friday. Jon Cooper of Prince George is the head coach of the Lightning.
The NHL schedule is right here.
NBA
Atlanta Hawks 110 Milwaukee Bucks 88
(The best-of-seven Eastern Conference final is tied 2-2)
Without Trae Young, the Hawks used a full-team effort to stymy the Bucks and take Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
But there was a bigger story this evening: Giannis Antetokounmpo’s knee injury.@cthomasbattle offers up his Game 4 takeaways ⤵️https://t.co/pikjrTequW
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) June 30, 2021
The NBA Western Conference final continues tonight (Wednesday) just after 6:00 in LA with the Phoenix Suns ahead of the Clippers 3-2.
The NBA playoff schedule is right here.
MLB
Toronto Blue Jays 9 Seattle Mariners 3
The (41-36) Blue Jays are 4-1 on a 10-game homestand that continues tonight against the Mariners.
The Blue Jays schedule is right here.
The MLB standings are right here.
Column:
Summer of ’01: Only thing missing is the locusts . . . SJHL keeping Chow in commish’s office . . . AJHL will look at 1-on-1 in exhibition OT https://t.co/164fDPAyfk
— Gregg Drinnan (@gdrinnan) June 30, 2021
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