Lightning deal St. Louis at trade deadline
NHL: Martin St. Louis told Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman more than once he wanted to play for another team. Hours before the league’s trade deadline, the unhappy captain got his wish and was traded to the New York Rangers for their rugged captain, Ryan Callahan.
The Florida Panthers are almost mathematically out of the playoff race, but they’re putting Roberto Luongo back in their net after having given up on him in the past. To make room for Luongo, the Panthers traded goalie Tim Thomas to Dallas. Minnesota also acquired goalie Ilya Bryzgalov from Edmonton.
The Montreal Canadiens acquired high-scoring forward Thomas Vanek from the New York Islanders for a prospect, second-round pick and conditional fifth-round selection. The Columbus Blue Jackets traded scoring whiz Marian Gaborik to the offensively challenged Los Angeles Kings for right wing Matt Frattin and two conditional draft picks.
• Canadian women’s goalie backs up Oilers: Olympic champion women’s goalie Shannon Szabados took the ice with the Edmonton Oilers at a practice while the team waited for Viktor Fasth to arrive after a trade with Anaheim.
Szabados, who lives in Edmonton, became the first woman to play in the Western Hockey League and also helped the Canadian women’s hockey team win gold in Vancouver in 2010 and then Sochi, 2014.
No woman has ever played in an NHL regular-season game. Manon Rheaume became the first to play in an exhibition game with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1992.
Bozon remains in critical condition
WHL: Kootenay Ice forward Tim Bozon remains in critical condition at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Neisseria meningitis after being admitted Saturday.
Bozon’s parents, Phillippe and Helen, have been at his bedside since they arrived in Saskatoon on Sunday from their home Cureglia, Switzerland.
Cavanaugh leads upset over Blue Devils
Men’s basketball: Tyler Cavanaugh scored a career-high 20 points and Wake Forest pulled away to upset No. 4 Duke 82-72.
Travis McKie added 19 points in his final scheduled home game for the Demon Deacons (16-14, 6-11 Atlantic Coast Conference).
Jabari Parker scored 19 points and Rodney Hood added 16 for the Blue Devils (23-7, 12-5).
Japan scores late, ties U.S. in Algarve Cup
Soccer: Aya Miyama scored on a 35-yard free kick in the 83rd minute, giving Japan a 1-1 tie against the defending champion United States in their opener at the Algarve Cup women’s soccer tournament in Parchal, Portugal.
Sydney Leroux had scored in the 59th minute for the U.S., which extended its unbeaten streak to 43 games (36-0-7) since a March 2012 loss to Japan at the Algarve Cup.
• Ukraine team gives fans a reason to wave flags: On a night that gave a small contingent of Ukrainian fans an opportunity to wave their flags and unite amid a political crisis back home, their national soccer team eased past the United States 2-0 in an exhibition game shifted from Kharkiv to Larnaca, Cyprus, at Papadopoulos Stadium.
Class-action lawsuit filed against NCAA
Miscellany: A former West Virginia football player sued the NCAA and five major conferences, saying they have violated antitrust laws by agreeing to cap the value of an athletic scholarship at less than the actual cost of attending school.
Shawne Alston, a running back for West Virginia from 2009-12, is the only named plaintiff. The lawsuit also seeks to represent all scholarship football players who have played since February 2010 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 or Southeastern Conference.
• Beavers receive a boost to help with construction: The Oregon State Beavers have received a $2 million challenge gift to help complete the school’s Whyte Track and Field Center.
The gift by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous will go toward the second phase of the facility’s construction, which includes grandstands, a hammer throw area and a scoreboard. The total budget for the phase is estimated at $4.5 million and is expected to start next spring.
• ‘Mushing Mortician’ survives dangerous crash: An Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher was flown to a hospital after a harrowing ordeal that included crashing his sled, hitting his head on a stump and later falling through ice and breaking his ankle.
Scott Janssen, an Anchorage undertaker known as the “Mushing Mortician,” was back home early Wednesday after getting a cast for the broken bone he suffered on Tin Creek, about 40 miles from Nikolai.