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The road to the College Football Playoff National Championship is about to get a lot more narrow with the arrival of Conference championship weekend. There is still a lot left to be decided as we inch closer to the four-team College Football Playoff. This is the Morning Coffee for Friday Dec. 1, 2023.

Hours after the Flames dealt blueliner Nikita Zadorov to the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary’s defencemen combined for three goals in a 4-3 overtime win over the Dallas Stars Thursday night at the Saddledome. Salim Valji has more.

With Mark Giordano (broken finger) joining John Klingberg (hip) and Timothy Liljegren (high ankle sprain) on the injured list, the Leafs will be playing without half their top-six defencemen for the foreseeable future.

Hockey Canada’s independent third party (ITP), an arms-length department that receives and investigates complaints of abuse, received 1,872 complaints during its first year of operation, accepting and processing 187 of them.

The Dallas Cowboys have been historically dominant in their home stadium this season. That trend is expected to continue tonight.

The soccer legend faced the U.S. more than 40 times during her 23-year career, earning the admiration of Canada’s biggest rivals, Meaghen Johnson writes.

Maple Leafs head coach tries to hold his players accountable “to the standard that's required” with an outburst directed at one of his players on the bench during Tuesday’s game against the Panthers. Mark Masters has more.

Los Angeles is off to a blistering start, racking up wins with some of the best underlying numbers you will find across the National Hockey League, Travis Yost writes.

As her legendary international career draws to a close, the coaches and teammates who played a part in Christine Sinclair’s journey look back on how it all began 23 years ago.