Which young star will win a Stanley Cup first?

Chinese and Russian military forces are engaged in joint exercises in northwestern China as ties grow between the two autocratic states amid uncertainty over instability in Afghanistan. The exercises involving ground troops and air forces are due to continue through Friday in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous region. The region borders on Xinjiang, where China has detained more than 1 million Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities in what it calls a campaign against terrorism and extremism.

If the Dallas Stars don’t stop taking so many penalties, they won’t have to worry about that. It’s hard to win a hockey game taking three penalties in the first 13 minutes, especially against a dangerous power play that can snap the puck around with ease. ”That’s where we lost the game,” said Stars forward Mattias Janmark, who took the first penalty of the game.

MONTREAL (AP) — The NHL draft is returning to Montreal for the 27th time and first since 2009.