The New Jersey Devils‘ injury woes may have reached alarming new heights.

Defenseman Brenden Dillon and forward Cody Glass exited during the second and third periods, respectively, in Game 1 of the first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday, a 4-1 loss for New Jersey. The Devils were also briefly without defenseman Luke Hughes, who left in the third period but was able to return.

New Jersey entered the postseason already undermanned. Top forward Jack Hughes, Luke’s brother, had season-ending shoulder surgery in March, and defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler is also not expected to be available in the first round.

Coach Sheldon Keefe remained optimistic though about one of the team’s latest injured bodies.

“(Dillon) was eager to get back out there,” Keefe said by way of an update. Doctors ultimately held Dillon out for “precautionary reasons.”

The veteran blueliner was taken to the ice by Carolina forward William Carrier battling in front of the Devils’ net. He remained down for several minutes before being helped off by New Jersey’s training staff.

It was a disastrous third period sequence that shortened New Jersey’s bench further. Hughes went flying into the Devils’ net after tripping over Hurricanes’ forward Andrei Svechnikov, and ran off the ice cradling his right arm. Then, Devils’ goaltender Jacob Markstrom accidentally clipped Glass with his stick while appearing to aim for Svechnikov. Glass left and did not return while Hughes finished the game.

New Jersey will have to wait and see who is available when they take on Carolina in Game 2 on Tuesday. For now, Keefe won’t let the Devils dwell on what they can’t control.

“To a man, myself included,” he said, “we’re all going to have to be better.”

CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic — Tessa Janecke scored in overtime as the United States prevailed over defending champion Canada 4-3 to win the women’s ice hockey world championship Sunday.

Janecke struck with 2:54 left in overtime for the Americans to claim their 11th title at the worlds. Taylor Heise set up the winning goal.

With Sarah Fillier going to the bench, Canadian defenseman Jocelyne Larocque was pressured behind the net and sent a pass up the boards, with Heise intercepting the pass at the right point inside the blue line and feeding Janecke to score into the open left side of the net.

Janecke immediately celebrated her third goal of the tournament by throwing her stick into the stands.

Abbey Murphy and Heise each scored a goal and had an assist, and Caroline Harvey also scored for the United States.

“Shock and awe,” U.S. goalie Gwyneth Philips said after the drama. “I’m ecstatic.”

Canada still leads the world tournament with 13 gold medals. The cross-border rivals have met in the championship game in all but one tournament, in 2019, when host Finland defeated Canada in the semifinal before losing to the U.S. squad.

The U.S. cruised through the tournament, winning the preliminary group with victories in all four games, including a 2-1 win over Canada. The Americans then eliminated Germany in the quarterfinals and Czech Republic in the semifinals at the 12-day, 10-nation tournament.

In the last major international test before the Milan Winter Games in February, the U.S. has now won two of the past three world championships, though Canada is the defending Olympic champion.

Danielle Serdachny, Jennifer Gardiner and Fillier scored for Canada, which outshot the U.S. 47-30.

U.S. captain Hilary Knight recorded an assist to increase her record at the worlds to 53. She is the all-time scoring leader with 120 points. In her 15th world championship appearance, she won a record 10th gold medal.

Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin had an assist to top the scoring table at the tournament with 12 points (four goals, eight assists).

In a classic encounter between the two archrivals, Fillier tied the game for Canada at 3-3 with 5:48 remaining, forcing overtime.

Heise had restored a 3-2 lead for the Americans 5:27 into the final period with a wrist shot into the top-left corner of the net on a 5-on-3 power play.

U.S. goaltender Aerin Frankel had to be replaced by Philips 4:35 into the final period after a crash with Laura Stacey, who received a penalty for charging, giving the Americans the 5-on-3 advantage.

TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees left-hander Max Fried lost a no-hit bid in Sunday’s 4-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays just as the bottom of the eighth inning was about to start when the official scorer changed a sixth-inning call to a hit after originally calling it an error.

Rookie Chandler Simpson hit a grounder into the hole between first and second with one out in the sixth and reached when the ball bounced off the glove of first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. Official scorer Bill Mathews at first called the play an error.

Fried was hitless through seven innings and was about to throw his first pitch of the eighth when Mathews announced he changed the decision to a hit. Mathews said he looked at several video replays and determined Simpson would have beaten any throw to first.

Jake Mangum then led off the eighth with a clean single to center on Fried’s fifth pitch of the inning. Fried allowed two hits over 7⅔ innings, throwing 102 pitches.

“I thought the first hit was the first hit in the eighth there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I saw afterward that they had changed it. Look, we’re not going to beat him to the bag, so I get it, but it makes it a little bit dicey when it’s within the game — or obviously with a no-hitter going on, but the reality is it was a hit.”

Boone was surprised the initial call was an error.

“I scratch my head at the official scorers nightly,” he said. “They throw an error up on the board at Yankee Stadium and then we go to these other places and they can fire up a hit with the best of them. It’s a different game in every other park.”

Fried, though, wasn’t fazed during the game, or in the clubhouse, after the win.

“After I came out,” Fried said, when asked when he realized the scorer’s decision. “I had no idea, I looked up and saw two hits. It is what it is. I’m just happy we got the win.”

New York had made three defensive gems to keep Tampa Bay hitless and led 3-0. In the third, Fried hustled to first base to beat the speedy Simpson by half a step on a grounder to Goldschmidt.

Then to end the fifth, Trent Grisham robbed Mangum with a diving catch in deep right-center before throwing out Danny Jansen attempting to tag up and go to second.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. sprinted 74 feet from his position at second base to make a falling, backhanded catch on Christopher Morel‘s popup to shallow left-center.

“I’ve been trusting this defense all year,” Fried said after the Yankees improved to 5-0 in games he has started this season. “They had some unbelievable plays behind me today to be able to just keep attacking. It’s a lot easier when I know I can just hunt some contact and know that we’ve got some really good defenders behind me to go and make the play.”

Fried, 4-0 with a 1.42 ERA, signed a $218 million, eight-year contract with the Yankees during the offseason.

Grisham lined Ryan Pepiot’s third pitch of the game into the right-center bleachers for his fifth career leadoff homer. Grisham, who also homered Saturday off Shane Baz, hit leadoff Sunday for the first time since June 4, 2023.

Cody Bellinger also homered off Pepiot to lead off the sixth inning, and Austin Wells homered against Garrett Cleavinger in the ninth. In the third, Bellinger hit into a run-scoring forceout.

Boone was ejected in the eighth inning for the 40th time in his managerial career and first time this season.

Aaron Judge hit a drive to deep left that was ruled foul, a decision upheld in a video review, then took a called third strike. Judge started to have words with plate umpire Adam Beck, and Boone came out of the dugout and immediately was tossed.

“The audacity of the call standing is remarkable,” Boone said. “It’s a home run.”

Judge concurred with his manager, adding that “it was a fair ball. It’s just tough in a situation like this, in a minor league park, where the foul poles aren’t that high. … They missed it and we’ve just got to move on.”

Joe Jimenez worked around a pair of walks in the eighth before Raisel Iglesias retired the first two batters of the ninth. J.D. Martinez homered just over the wall in right field on the next pitch off Iglesias.

Fried pitched seven hitless innings for Atlanta at the New York Mets’ Citi Field and was removed after 109 pitches in a 4-1 win on May 11, 2024.

Tampa Bay’s Triple-A Durham Bulls no-hit the Yankees’ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Saturday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.