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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday trolled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by promising to cut Canucks’ taxes if they agree to become “our 51st state,’’ while urging them to draft NHL great Wayne Gretzky to lead the country. “I just left Wayne Gretzky, ‘The Great One’ as he is known in Ice Hockey circles,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I said, ‘Wayne, why don’t you run for Prime Minister of Canada, soon to be known as the Governor of Canada – You would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign,’” the president-elect said Trump — who thinks Canada has...

Next to watching Crosby and Ovechkin go at it in game 3, the best fun in the NHL will be tracking how Gary Bettman tries to worm out of letting Jim Balsillie buy the Phoenix Coyotes and move them to southern Ontario. Balsillie has offered far more than the team is worth -- US$212.5 million for a team that filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday after losing US$90 million over three years. The Coyotes have had 12 seasons to make a go of it in Phoenix yet still have one of the lowest attendance records and skimpiest payrolls of the 30...