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The Vancouver Canucks enter the 2025 NHL Entry Draft with a pick in each round. Leading up to the draft day, we at The Hockey News will be profiling a different prospect who the Canucks could take with each of their picks. Today's prospect is Seattle Thunderbirds center Braeden Cootes, who Vancouver could select 15th overall.
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Associated Press
42 minutes ago
- Associated Press
MLS players' union says dispute over Club World Cup compensation is ongoing
Major League Soccer and its players' union remain at odds over compensation for the players with the three MLS teams taking part in the Club World Cup. The Seattle Sounders, LAFC and Inter Miami are the only MLS clubs among the 32 teams playing in the Club World Cup, which starts Saturday. Each team will earn $9.55 million as a club for participating in the tournament, with a chance to win additional prize money based on performance. The Major League Soccer Players Association said Sunday that the league issued a proposal Friday that did not include any additional participation bonuses for the players and offered 'below-standard' back-end compensation. The union also said the league asked for unrelated concessions to the collective bargaining agreement. Currently, there is a provision of the collective bargaining agreement that caps the amount of prize money that can go to players at $1 million. The MLSPA believes the players are entitled to a bigger share of the funds. 'The timing, substance and retaliatory nature of the proposal sends a clear message: MLS does not respect or value players' efforts with regard to this tournament,' the MLSPA said in statement Sunday. 'Although not surprised, the players and the MLSPA are deeply disappointed by this message.' Major League Soccer issued a statement Sunday to clarify its position. 'As the Seattle Sounders FC, Inter Miami CF, and the Los Angeles Football Club prepare to compete in the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup, Major League Soccer has agreed to voluntarily provide additional performance-based compensation to players from the three participating clubs,' the league said. 'MLS has proposed an enhanced structure for the Club World Cup to reward both participation and competitive achievement in the tournament. In addition to the guaranteed $1 million per team for qualifying, 20 percent of all prize money earned from the group stage onward would be allocated to players. If an MLS club wins the Club World Cup, its players could collectively receive more than $24 million in performance bonuses.' The statement went on to say that MLS owners believe that performance-based incentives are appropriate given the expanded format and increased prize pool for the tournament. 'The League values the continued dedication and commitment of its players and looks forward to supporting them as they represent their clubs -- and Major League Soccer -- on the global stage this summer.' The talks between the two sides were ongoing. Last weekend, the Seattle Sounders called attention to the issue by wearing T-shirts before a match that read 'Club World Cup Ca$h Grab.' On Sunday, a number of players posted the hashtag #FairShareNow, including Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei and LAFC center back Aaron Long. 'The players remain unified in using their collective voice and demanding a fair share of the rewards earned from their hard work,' the union said. The Club World Cup features an expanded field of club teams from around the globe and will be played across 11 U.S. cities. ___ AP soccer:
New York Times
an hour ago
- New York Times
Ryan Fox finally eliminates Sam Burns to win typically wild Canadian Open
This week's Canadian Open, as it tends to be, was a strange golf tournament. None of the biggest stars in the field contended. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy shot a 78 to miss the cut. The main storyline was the professional debuts of Luke Clanton and two other rookies, and none of them made the cut, either. Advertisement So it feels right that the Canadian Open was decided by not one, not two, not even three playoff holes. It took four attempts on the 18th hole at TPC Toronto for Ryan Fox to win the Canadian Open with a majestic 258-yard approach that landed just feet from the hole. Even the way it went to a playoff felt fitting, with Sam Burns — so far down the leaderboard he teed off two hours before the final group — shooting a Sunday 62 and waiting in the clubhouse as a collection of journeymen and volatile talents faded down the stretch. That was until Fox, the 38-year-old Kiwi, hit a 17-foot birdie on 18 to force a playoff. And until Burns, the best putter on tour statistically, missed a 7-footer to win on the first playoff hole. Or when neither birdied the par-5 18th on the second playoff hole. Then, the PGA Tour moved the pin location on the same green to a different spot while the golfers drove back to the tee for a third time. And again Fox and Burns made a mess of it with poor wedge shots into the green for more pars. All of this until the fourth try, when Fox hit his beautiful approach. But still it wasn't to plan. Fox missed the short eagle putt, but Burns three-putted across the green to hand the title to Fox for his second PGA Tour win in a month and 19th professional win worldwide. 'That shot I hit on 18 … probably the best shot I've ever hit."@RyanFoxGolfer sealed the deal with this shot on the fourth playoff hole @RBCCanadianOpen. — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 8, 2025 Then again, the Canadian Open has truly been the strangest tournament for years. You know, the one where Adam Hadwin got jacked up and tackled by a security guard while running onto the green to celebrate countryman Nick Taylor's win in 2023. The one Robert MacIntyre won last summer with his father, a shy, Scottish grass cutter, on his bag in a pinch. And it's the tournament always going on during LIV drama, like the initial mass exodus that week in 2022 and the framework agreement announcement in 2023. There's always something. Advertisement And then there's this year's contest. For a very respected PGA Tour event, a 54-hole leaderboard led by Matteo Manassero, Fox, Lee Hodges, Kevin Yu, Matt McCarty and Mackenzie Hughes caught many off guard. The 36-hole leader was Cameron Champ, a former rising star who hasn't qualified for the past 13 major championships. Burns breaking out at least seemed to add some star power. Burns is a Ryder Cup participant who's played on two Presidents Cup teams. From age 24 to 26, he won four PGA Tour events and was looped into that class of exciting young talents like his buddy Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa. But Burns had a somewhat disappointing 2024, and the beginning of 2025 included his worst stretch in years, dropping outside the Data Golf top 40 for the first time since he was 23. But suddenly, Burns is hot at a good time. Starting in April, he's finished top-20 in the PGA Championship, the Memorial, the RBC Heritage and the Byron Nelson. His Sunday 62 just adds to his momentum leading into the U.S. Open at Oakmont this week. This weekend, though, is about Fox. After a win in Myrtle Beach at an opposite field event last month, he finished T28 at the PGA Championship, T20 at the Memorial and now adds this win to continue a dominant month. Can it continue at Oakmont? (Photo of Ryan Fox, left, and Sam Burns: Vaughn Ridley / Getty Images)
Washington Post
an hour ago
- Washington Post
Ryan Fox wins Canadian Open with 'best shot I've ever hit' in playoff to beat Sam Burns
CALEDON, Ontario — Ryan Fox of New Zealand won for the second time in five weeks on the PGA Tour with another memorable shot in a playoff , this time a 3-wood to 7 feet on the fourth extra hole Sunday to beat Sam Burns in the RBC Canadian Open. Fox won the Myrtle Beach Classic last month by chipping in for birdie to win a three-man playoff. This one on the TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley took a little longer. What turned out to be the winning shot might be more memorable. Fox smoked a 3-wood that landed softly just left of the pin and settled 7 feet away. Burns pulled his 3-wood some 55 feet left of the front right pin. He ran his eagle putt 8 feet by and missed that one. Fox missed his eagle try before tapping in for birdie. 'To be honest, Sam and I had a bit of a pillow fight for three holes,' Fox said. 'But that shot I hit on 18, that 3-wood, was probably the best shot I've ever hit. It would have been nice to make the putt. But hey, I'll take it.' Fox holed a birdie putt from just inside 18 feet on the par-5 18th in regulation for a 4-under 66 that allowed him to join Sam Burns at 18-under 262. Burns had finished some two hours earlier with a birdie on the final hole for a 62. They played the 18th four more times — the PGA Tour moved the pin position from far left to front right after two extra holes — and there was nothing compelling about the extra holes. Burns, regarded as one of the best putters on the PGA Tour, had a birdie putt from just over 5 feet on the first playoff for the win. He left that out to the right. The next time down 18, Fox went for the green and pushed his 3-wood. The collar of rough stopped it from going in the water. He pitched to 12 feet and had that birdie putt for the win, but left it a foot short. Pillow fight, indeed. On the third time playing the 18th in overtime, Burns had a lob wedge that was short and to the right, spinning off the green and nearly into the water. Fox hit his 40 feet out to the right. They both made par. Fox delivered the goods on the final hole and now has two wins in just over a month. The victory moved the 38-year-old Fox from No. 75 to No. 32 in the world, getting him into the U.S. Open next week for being among the top 60 in the world ranking. Kevin Yu birdied the last hole for a 66 to finish alone in third, one shot out of the playoff. He narrowly missed out on the top 60 to get to Oakmont next week. But Yu joined Cameron Young and Matt McCarty as earning the top three spots for the British Open next month for players not already eligible. Fox already was in the British Open from his victory in the BMW PGA Championship in 2023, the flagship event on the European tour. Fox now has eight wins worldwide — two on the PGA Tour, four on the European tour and two on the PGA Tour of Australasia. Burns was hopeful of ending more than two years without a victory, his last title coming in the final year of the World Golf Championships-Match Play in 2023. Young shot a 65 to tie for fourth. He was within range of Burns when Young made an incredible par on the 17th, going from the trees on the right to mangled left on the rough, gouging that out to 15 feet and making the putt. But needing birdie on the par-5 closing hole to catch Burns, the clubhouse leader at the time, Young flushed a 3-wood into the breeze and over the green into the trees, leaving him virtually no shot. It took two to get on the green and he made bogey to finish two shots behind. 'I couldn't have hit two better shots on the last hole. I don't hit 3-wood that far, and it's blowing straight into the wind, and it decided to bounce all the way to the back woods,' Young said. 'I thought in the air I was going to have about a 12-footer to win the tournament, and it ended up somewhere I was going to struggle to make par, let alone make a 4. Pretty upset.' ___ AP golf:
