In Japan’s host clubs, women pay to drink and flirt with handsome men. Such bars were once seen as harmless but are now being blamed for driving vulnerable women into debt and prostitution bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Trade details: To #Canucks: Evander Kane To #Oilers: OTT 2025 4th Round Pick No salary retained, Edmonton clears $5.125 million off the books.

JJ Peterka traded to Utah.

Sources: #NHL and #NHLPA preparing to announce the framework of a new CBA on Friday ahead of #NHLDraft, an unprecedented early extension. Details from Los Angeles on the new 84-game regular season, shortened preseason, revenue splits and dress code: dailyfaceoff.com/news/nhl-nhlpa…

More on the 84-game reg season starting in 26-27 season (reduce pre-season to 4 games max per team), the idea would be to start the reg season in last week of September as a result of shorter pre-season. The added games likely coming within the division.

Treliving on Tavares: "We're moving, hopefully in a direction to bring it to closure. My hope is, until proven otherwise, that we'll have a good outcome there." #Leafs

Brad Pitt's Los Angeles home was ransacked by burglars Wednesday night, law enforcement sources told ABC News. The actor was not home at the time. abcnews.link/IkCXx2k

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Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S. dollars bills and Bibles toward North Korea by sea, police said. abcnews.link/Li43wLi

BREAKING..Raptors boss is out..

Bodies of 34 people unearthed during construction work in Mexican region wracked by cartel violence cbsn.ws/3I2ZT5o

JOHNNY TORONTO 🔵⚪️ We have re-signed John Tavares to a four-year contract extension

Sources: Austin, Texas throws its hat into the #NHL expansion ring as franchise fee hits $2 billion. My final file for Daily Faceoff: dailyfaceoff.com/news/nhl-expan…

Sam Bennett's extension with #FlaPanthers: 8 years x $8 million.

Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. nbcnews.com/world/asia/jap…

Pat Brisson, agent for Sidney Crosby, told me just now in text message that speculation about Crosby leaving Penguins are “baseless rumors.” So, there’s a name for you, too. #NHLDraft The Athletic NHL Pittsburgh Penguins