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Today’s issue
Game No. 572’s issue: 3 out of 5
Connections: Sports Edition hints for April 18, 2026
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Yellow: EMPTY NET
Green: LIGHTNING
Blue: TD
Purple: GRINDER
Connections: Sports Edition answers for April 17, 2026
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Yellow
Types of hockey objectives: EMPTY NET, EVEN STRENGTH, POWER PLAY, SHORT-HANDED
Green
Last 4 groups to win the Stanley Cup: PANTHERS, GOLDEN KNIGHTS, AVALANCHE, LIGHTNING
Blue
NHL area names: BALL, CANADIAN TIRE, CAPITAL ONE, TD
Purple
Hockey phrases which can be additionally meals gadgets: APPLE, BISCUIT, GRINDER, ICING
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Connections: Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever sport, a every day puzzle designed for gamers to search out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.
The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 primarily based on commonalities inside every group as rapidly as attainable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one resolution, so be careful for phrases or gadgets that appear to belong to a number of classes!
Category examples:
Sports ____ : Fan, Car, Bar, Radio
U.S. Summer Olympians: Biles, Phelps, Ledecky, Lyles
Each class group is assigned a shade, revealed as you resolve, starting from easy (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to tough (purple).
Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?
That’s me! My identify is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for school sports activities right here at The Athletic. I used to be beforehand The Athletic’s managing editor for breaking information.
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