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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Doug Risebrough says he was “shocked” by the Minnesota Wild’s decision to fire him and end his nearly 10-year tenure as the franchise’s first general manager

The 2009 World Under-18 Championship will surely be a memorable one for U.S. center Drew Shore. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Denver Pioneers commit got better as the tourney went on, culminating in a three-assist finale as his team blanked the Russians for gold

PRAGUE – Dominik Hasek is coming out of retirement to play for his former club in the top Czech league.The 44-year-old goaltender will play next season for HC Moeller Pardubice in the town where he was born and started his career

Results Monday:AHL PlayoffsDivision Semifinals(Best-of-7)North DivisionHamilton 5 Grand Rapids 4(Grand Rapids leads series 2-1)Atlantic DivisionWorcester 3 Hartford 2 (2OT)(Hartford leads series 2-1)West DivisionPeoria 4 Houston 3 (Series tied 2-2)ECHL PlayoffsDivision Semifinals(Best-of-7)Cincinnati 2 Wheeling 1 (2OT)(Cincinnati wins series 4-3)IHL PlayoffsNo Games Scheduled

Scoring summaries from Monday’s NHL playoff games:Bruins 4 at Canadiens 2First Period1. Montreal, Higgins 2 (Weber) 11:522. Boston, Kessel 3 (Wideman) 18:35Penalty – Kostitsyn Mtl (slashing) 3:41

CALGARY – David Moss scored a pair of goals to pace the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.The Flames trail the ‘Hawks 2-1 in their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final series with Game 4 on Wednesday at the Saddledome (10 p

MONTREAL – The Montreal Canadiens feel they have to move mountains just to get a goal, while the Boston Bruins are having goals fall in their laps

Movements in the world of hockey Monday:National Hockey LeagueDALLAS STARS-Signed D Philip Larsen.MINNESOTA WILD-Re-signed D John Scott.ECHLREADING ROYALS-Acquired the rights to F Ryan Cruthers and D Kyle Peto from Mississippi to complete an earlier trade

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Ryan Russell and Ryan White each had a goal and an assist for Hamilton as the Bulldogs won 5-4 on Monday to get back in their series with Grand Rapids

NEW YORK – While Alex Ovechkin tried to figure out Henrik Lundqvist, the Washington Capitals found a way to beat the New York Rangers.Ovechkin went a third game without a goal, but earned two assists for the second-seeded Capitals, who methodically posted a 4-0 victory over the No

MONTREAL – Michael Ryder scored late in the second period to break a 2-2 tie in lifting the Boston Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens to take a stranglehold on their NHL Eastern Conference playoff series Monday night

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Throughout the San Jose Sharks’ outstanding regular season, rookie coach Todd McLellan always insisted the results didn’t matter as much as the process

MONTREAL – Forward Alex Tanguay and defenceman Mathieu Schneider, both said to be suffering from “upper body” injuries, were surprise scratches for the Montreal Canadiens for Game 3 of their playoff series against the Boston Bruins

PHILADELPHIA – Old-time hockey got the Philadelphia Flyers back in their playoff series against Pittsburgh. It’ll take more than a few fights and hard hits to beat the Penguins

RALEIGH, N.C. – Everything seemed to line up against the New Jersey Devils to make a run at the Stanley Cup.They drew one of the NHL’s hottest teams down the stretch for their first-round series, a Carolina club that all but owned them during the regular season

DALLAS – The Dallas Stars have signed defenceman Philip Larsen to a three-year entry-level deal.Terms were not released Monday. The 19-year-old Denmark native was the fifth-round selection by Dallas in the 2008 NHL entry draft

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The city that gave the world humorist James Thurber, rapper Bow Wow and golfer Jack Nicklaus has another celebrity about to step into the national spotlight

ST. LOUIS – One win away from a first-round playoff sweep, the Vancouver Canucks are anything but cocky. A loss from making their first post-season appearance in five years a colossal dud, the St

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Blue Jackets went to school in Hockeytown.The Jackets, outclassed in their first two NHL playoff games in franchise history, left Detroit trailing 2-0 in their first-round series against the defending Stanley Cup champion Red Wings

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Wild have re-signed defenceman John Scott to a one-year contract for US$550,000.Scott was eligible for unrestricted free agency, so this leaves the Wild with one less player to address this summer while their front office is in flux