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Titan topple Screaming Eagles

SYDNEY, N.S. -- Guillaume Nadeau made 25 saves and backstopped the Acadie-Bathurst Titan to a 3-0 win over the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles in a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League game played before 3,137 spectators last night at Centre 200 in Sydney.

Vincent Arseneau, Éric Faille and Jordan Lessard each scored for the Titan, who led 1-0 after the first period and 2-0 after the second.

Acadie-Bathurst improved its record to 10-14-2-2 while Cape Breton dropped to 15-10-2-3.

Titan visit the Halifax Mooseheads, the league's worst team, tomorrow afternoon. Halifax enters the game with a 5-20-0-2 record.

Meanwhile, the Saint John Sea Dogs beat the visiting Drummondville Voltigeurs 4-2 last night at Harbour Station for their 17th win in a row. Mike Hoffman scored the game-winner with just 1:34 left in the third period.

Bruins' LW Lucic out for four weeks

BOSTON -- Boston Bruins winger Milan Lucic is out again, sidelined up to four weeks with a sprained left ankle.

"Hopefully this is the last of his injuries this year," Bruins coach Claude Julien said before yesterday's game against New Jersey. "It was just a rut in the ice and his foot went the wrong way."

Lucic, who missed 14 games earlier in the season with a fractured finger, limped off the ice in Wednesday's shootout win over the Minnesota Mild.

"It's something we've been dealing with since the start of the season," Julien said. "We'll be without him a month. Maybe less."

Lucic, one of the team's emotional leaders with his tough play to go along with his scoring skills, signed a three-year contract extension earlier in the season.

He played just four games since returning from the finger injury and scored goals in two of the last three games.

He has 27 goals and 47 assists in two-plus seasons. Lucic also has racked up 238 penalty minutes in 159 regular-season games.

The 21-year-old was one of 46 players to attend Team Canada's Olympic orientation camp over the summer.

Paralympic torch relay seeks bearers

VANCOUVER -- Applications are now open for torchbearers for the 2010 Paralympic Games.

Games organizers and relay sponsors are looking for 600 people to carry the Paralympic flame on its 10-day journey from Ottawa, where the flame will be lit on Parliament Hill on March 3, to Vancouver.

Applications are available at www.YouGottaBeHere.ca and they have to be in by Jan. 7.

The Paralympic torch will travel across the country during its 10-day journey, and stop in 11 celebration communities including Toronto and Quebec City, before arriving in B.C.

Games organizers announced that Rick Ball, a record-setting amputee runner from Orillia, Ont., will be among the first to carry the torch.

Approximately 1,000 athletes and officials from more than 40 countries are expected in Vancouver and Whistler for the 2010 Paralympic Games, from March 12 to March 21.

Oilers winger Hemsky to have surgery

EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Oilers will have to do without Ales Hemsky for a while.

Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini announced yesterday that the right-winger will undergo surgery to repair his left shoulder.

Hemsky was injured in the second period of Wednesday night's 3-1 loss to Los Angeles after being hit from behind by the Kings' Michal Handzus.

In 22 games this season, the 26-year-old Hemsky has seven goals and 15 assists.

The Oilers, 4-10-2 in their last 16 games, are already riddled by injuries and struggling to score goals.