National Sports

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators played one of their best defensive games of the season, but still felt short.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Another year, another O'Brien award for trainer Richard Moreau. Moreau, of Puslinch, Ont., was named the top trainer for the sixth straight year Saturday night at the O’Brien awards banquet.

ATLANTA — For towering tight end Tony Gonzalez, this was a slam dunk. The 6-foot-5 Gonzalez, who turned the celebratory post-TD dunk over the crossbar into an art form, was voted into the Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Montreal Canadiens head coach Claude Julien said the best team did not come out on top Saturday afternoon.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers are finally making their comebacks count. Nolan Patrick scored 2:01 into overtime and the Flyers rallied past the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 Saturday, extending their winning streak to a season-best seven games.

SOLITUDE, Utah — Canadian skicross star Marielle Thompson raced to a gold-medal at the freestyle world championships on Saturday while Calgary's Brady Leman won silver on the men's side. Thompson, from Whistler, B.C.

HAMAR, Norway — Laurent Dubreuil was the top Canadian on the second day of competition at the speed skating World Cup, earning a fifth-place finish in the men's 500-metre race on Saturday. Dubreuil, of Levis, Que., posted a time of 34.812 seconds, 0.

This time there was no need for Maurizio Sarri to get mad with his players.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime lifted Canada into the Davis Cup finals, downing Norbert Gombos of Slovakia 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday to win the best-of-five tie 3-2.

DRESDEN, Germany — Five-time Olympic medallist Charles Hamelin added to his trophy case with a silver medal on Saturday at a short-track speedskating World Cup.