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Michal Postava walked into his first NHL start and walked out a winner. The Red Wings rookie netminder stopped twenty-five shots and turned away all three Oilers in the shootout, with Dylan Larkin forcing overtime on a six-on-five goal with just over a minute left. Connor McDavid, silenced.
Meanwhile in San Francisco, the Valkyries are one win away from a WNBA title, and Kiah Stokes is a big reason why. The veteran big doesn't need headlines — she needs paint. Her defensive presence anchors a Golden State squad built from the ground up on stopping opponents cold, and right now nobody is stopping them.
And over in the NBA, Alperen Sengun is doing something that almost nobody does. The Houston Rockets center has put up numbers through the first stretch of the two thousand twenty-six to twenty-seven season that put him in the same statistical conversation as Nikola Jokic — and the Rockets look like a genuine force heading deeper into the schedule.
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