The Montreal Canadiens have acquired Zarley Zalapski and Jonas Hoglund from the Calgary Flames for Valeri Bure and future considerations.
Zalapski, 29, a defenseman, has two goals and seven assists in 35 games this season. He has 370 points and 625 penalty minutes in his NHL career, which includes stops with Pittsburgh, Hartford and Calgary. Hoglund, 25, a left wing, has six goals and eight assists in 50 games. Bure, 23, a right wing, has seven goals and 22 assists.
Olympics: The International Olympic Committee has added women’s modern pentathlon to the Summer Games in Sydney in 2000. Modern pentathlon is one of the oldest Olympic sports, dating to the 1912 games in Stockholm. It combines horseback riding, swimming, fencing, shooting and running.
Soccer: The Chicago Fire drafted defender C.J. Brown, who played on a U.S. Open Cup team, the San Francisco Bay Seals, with its first pick in the Major League Soccer supplemental draft. Other choices were Minnesota Thunder defender Don Gramenz, former San Jose Clash midfielder Paul Holocher, and midfielder Paul Lekics, a Crystal Lake native and the 1996 Missouri Valley Conference player of the year. The college portion of the draft was held Saturday.
Auto racing: Tony Stewart, driving in three races, and Kenny Schrader shattered records at the Copper World Classic in Phoenix. Stewart became the first driver in the race’s history to win two events in one day. He took the USAC National Midget Series and Silver Crown features as well as a second-place finish in his first-ever race in a super modified. Schrader held off Rick Carelli to take NASCAR’s Southwest Tour main event–his record ninth victory at the track and record sixth in Copper World competition.
Baseball: Anna May Hutchison, a star pitcher in the women’s All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League, the professional World War II-era circuit immortalized in the film “A League of Their Own,” died Thursday at the age of 73 in Racine, Wis.
