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■ Timo Meier set a San Jose franchise record with five goals Monday in the Shark’s 6-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings. Meier, a sixth-year forward who made his first all-star team this season, had a hat trick before the first period ended and five goals after the second. It was the first five-goal game in the NHL since the Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad scored five March 5, 2020, against Washington.

■ Athletics Canada CEO Dave Bedford is facing a complaint about his Twitter activity. The tweets in question were posted over a number of days and were sexual in nature. Bedford was informed of the complaint Saturday, deleted the tweets and made his Twitter account private.