MONTREAL — The drive from the Stoney Creek Costco outside Hamilton to the Bell Centre is about six hours, without traffic. Simona Xhekaj was supposed to work at that Costco on Tuesday morning. She was ...

Since the start of practice camp, there’s been a lot of talk in Montreal about the Xhekaj brothers. While Arber looks like a transformed defenseman, Florian has the knife between his teeth and looks ...

BROSSARD, Que. — The edges of Florian Xhekaj’s rugged character were sharpened in a hospital bed, in San Sebastian, Spain, where he lay battling for his 14-year-old life. You think the fight the ...