Boston Bruins defenseman Hampus Lindholm is "unlikely" to return to action this season as he works his way back from knee surgery, general manager Don Sweeney said Sunday.

Sweeney said Lindholm will have another surgery next week related to the fractured patella tendon he sustained after blocking a shot from St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk in the first period of a game on Nov. 12.

Lindholm, 31, has seven points (3 goals, 4 assists) and a minus-4 rating in 17 games this season.

An All-Star in 2022-23, Lindholm has 313 points (73 goals, 240 assists) and a plus-147 rating in 762 career games with the Bruins and Anaheim Ducks (2013-22). The Ducks selected the Swede with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 draft.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Hockey Club put defenseman Juuso Valimaki on waivers Sunday.

The 26-year-old Finn has five points and 14 penalty minutes while averaging 16:33 of ice time in 43 games this season. He has one year left on his contract at a salary cap hit of $2 million.

Valimaki fell out of Utah's lineup with John Marino and Sean Durzi each back from a long-term injury. If he clears waivers, the team can assign Valimaki to the Tucson Roadrunners of the American Hockey League.

Going on waivers comes after Valimaki was selected to Finland's roster for the 4 Nations Face-Off but was a healthy scratch for all three games of the tournament.

Manchester United loanee Antony was shown a straight red card during Real Betis' 2-1 win over Getafe on Sunday.

Antony was penalised in injury time for lunging at Getafe defender Juan Iglesias' ankle while charging him down.

Prior to the sending off, Antony had already left his mark on the game with an assist for Isco's opener in the first half. It was his fifth goal contribution for Betis since joining the Seville-based side on loan until the end of the season.

The Brazil international has enjoyed a new lease of life at Betis and has spoken of "finding himself again" at the LaLiga.

The red card against Getafe means he be suspended for Betis' clash against Real Madrid next Saturday.

Carlo Ancelotti described Luka Modric as "a gift for football" after the midfielder, 39, scored a spectacular goal in Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Girona on Sunday.

Modric opened the scoring in the 41st minute at the Bernabéu, before Vinícius Júnior added a late second, as Madrid kept pace with Barcelona at the top of the LaLiga table.

The Croatia international is no longer a regular starter for Madrid, having made just nine league starts this season and another 15 substitute appearances, but remains an important figure in the dressing room.

"Modric is a gift for football," Ancelotti said in his post-match news conference. "He should keep going for as long as he wants to. Whatever he does, he does well. Football, and we at Real Madrid, have been lucky to have him as a legend. He has been a gift, with his quality and his professionalism."

Modric -- whose contract is due to expire this summer -- is the oldest player ever to feature for Real Madrid, and will turn 40 in September this year.

Ancelotti compared him with his legendary player at AC Milan, Paolo Maldini, who won the 2007 Champions League aged 38, before retiring two years later.

"I have an example of another player, Maldini, you can compare both of them," Ancelotti said. "They're fantastic role models. It isn't a coincidence that they reached 40. Genes are a factor, but above all professionalism, seriousness, attitude."

"I don't know if it's one of my most spectacular [goals], but it was nice," Modric told Real Madrid TV. "It's always special to score at the Bernabéu ... The recent games show we're in a good moment. We have to keep going. I think we can still grow as a team."

Madrid play Real Sociedad on Wednesday in their Copa del Rey semifinal first leg, before visiting Real Betis in LaLiga and then playing Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 clash.

Ancelotti said defender David Alaba was in contention to start that game after playing 70 minutes against Girona, in his first start in over a year.

Pep Guardiola said he saw Manchester City's "bright future" despite watching his young team lose to Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Liverpool took a big step towards the Premier League title with a 2-0 victory on Sunday. Guardiola left the experience of Rúben Dias, Mateo Kovacic, Ilkay Gündogan and Bernardo Silva on the bench in favour of a team with an average age of just 24.7-years-old.

City included three 20-year-olds -- Rico Lewis, Savinho and Abdukodir Khusanov -- in the starting XI and, despite the result, Guardiola said he was impressed.

"I saw a bright future," Guardiola told the BBC.

"Other than Kevin [De Bruyne] and Nathan [Ake], they are the future of this club in the next years, with others who will come in future windows.

"It was a good game. Tight game in the first half. First half it was more open and in the second half they defended very deep. They always have the threat but it is not easy to control it. Big compliment to them but I am very pleased with the way we play."

The result leaves City 20 points behind Liverpool in the table and Guardiola's team have plenty of work to do in order to close the gap and challenge for the title next season.

Asked what the biggest difference between the two side is right now, Guardiola told ESPN: 'You can see it in the table, they've picked up a lot of points, we've lost a lot when we couldn't have.

"As for today, I have few things to say, we got to the touchline a lot, the winger was brilliant, but we lacked the quality to be able to resolve [the moves]."

City were without Erling Haaland again because the knee injury picked up during the 4-0 win over Newcastle.

The striker was kept on the bench against Real Madrid in midweek and was left out of the squad entirely against Liverpool.

City face Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday and Guardiola is unsure whether the Norway international will be back.

"I don't know," he said. "I am not saying we didn't get the result because Erling was not there. That is unfair on the other players. We could finish more but in general it is fine."

Information from ESPN's Joao Castelo-Branco contributed to this report

Mohamed Salah said Liverpool's modern-day legends "need another title" after they swatted aside Manchester City at the Etihad on Sunday to move 11 points clear of second-placed Arsenal in the Premier League title race.

Asked whether he thought Liverpool were close to securing their second Premier League title, Salah told Sky Sports: "I wouldn't say it's close. It's just like, we need another title for sure.

"Me and the big guys here in the team, we need another title. But yeah, we'll give it our best and we'll give it a good shot."

Salah has been in inspired form this season, and he became the first player in Europe's top five leagues to register 50 goal involvements when he gave Liverpool the lead in their 2-0 victory.

The result, combined with Arsenal's defeat to West Ham in north London on Saturday, has left Liverpool with a commanding lead in the Premier League title race.

If they can get over the line in Arne Slot's first season in charge, it will secure the second Premier League title in the club's history, five years after their first success under former coach Jürgen Klopp.

Salah and teammates such as Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and Trent Alexander-Arnold were vital then and are set to be so again as they eye a trophy lift in May.

Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Salah are all out of contract at Anfield this summer and have been able to speak to clubs abroad with the view of signing for them in June.

Despite the ongoing uncertainty over his long-term future at the club, Salah admitted this has been his favourite season on Merseyside.

"I don't know. It's opinion. Maybe people prefer my first season [or] people prefer now. But I think I prefer now because it's just winning the league, doing your best and helping the team, helping young players as well. It's incredible. Probably this year," Salah said.

Meanwhile, City winger Jérémy Doku said he believed his side deserved more from their defeat.

"To be fair, if I look at the game, I don't think that they were much better than us," Doku said. "Two goals, one set piece and the second goal was a long ball, so well done to them. We know their qualities and that they like to play in behind. They did well, and after it is hard to come back against a team that defends well like that."

Information from ESPN's Global Sports Research contributed to this report.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- NC State guard Zoe Brooks never panicked, flinched or hesitated. Not with the chance to take on the All-American guards leading Notre Dame, the nation's top-ranked team.

The 5-foot-10 Brooks scored a career-high 33 points to help the 13th-ranked Wolfpack beat No. 1 Notre Dame 104-95 in double overtime Sunday, swapping her typical role as sidekick to touted backcourt teammates for breakout star of a thrilling game played in the national TV spotlight.

"I like challenges," Brooks, a sophomore, said.

Brooks came in averaging 13.5 points and her previous high was 21. But she blew past that in a high-pressure matchup against the Irish's backcourt of Hannah Hidalgo and Olivia Miles, attacking the paint to put the pressure on Notre Dame's interior defenders and constantly getting to the foul line in 48 minutes.

The day started with the Wolfpack players delivering doughnuts to fans lined up outside for hours to get in early on a day when ESPN's "College GameDay" was on site to highlight the matchup. By the end, Brooks was joining teammates in hopping around and celebrating on the court in front of a packed Reynolds Coliseum at the horn.

And it wasn't long before they took that party to the campus at Bell Tower to celebrate with fans -- the site where NC State marked the unexpected double Final Four by its men's and women's teams last spring.

The Wolfpack ended Notre Dame's 19-game winning streak and denied the Irish the chance to clinch the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title outright. Now, after earning its first home win against a No. 1-ranked team since beating Wayland Baptist in 1978, NC State still has a chance to grab at least a share of that title.

"It's amazing," Brooks said. "We're all tired. We're all banged up, all hurting. We just kept fighting. We wanted to win this game really bad, and we did everything we could to win."

Brooks made 9 of 20 shots and hit all 14 of her free throws while drawing a game-high eight fouls on opponents. She was unafraid to go right at Hidalgo, a first-team Associated Press All-American ranked second nationally in scoring (24.6) and a familiar opponent from their pre-college days.

She also didn't hesitate to drive against bigger defenders, like when she had her shot blocked in the paint by the 6-foot Liatu King but went back up to snag the rebound and draw a foul. Brooks responded by calmly sinking two more free throws for an 80-77 lead with 22.5 seconds left in regulation.

Sometimes, she scored easily. Sometimes, she was knocked to the floor. But in a game with slim margins of 21 ties and 21 lead changes, those big moments kept adding up until NC State finally wrestled away control for good in the final extra five minutes.

"She got to the free throw line 14 times individually, we didn't even have that many as a team," Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey said, referencing the Irish's 10 attempts. "So, she did a great job of getting downhill, playing with a ton of confidence and it was one of those nights for her, having a career high. Hats off to her, she played well."

Brooks' lofty recruiting pedigree forecasted performances like this, notably as a McDonald's All-American and top-10 national recruit when she arrived before last season. But she had only twice cracked the 20-point mark in her career, with 21 points against ETSU in the season opener and then 21 in a loss at Florida State on Feb. 9.

NC State generally hadn't needed her to take on that role, with James being such an explosive and gifted scorer while Rivers is an all-around matchup headache with length and versatility.

Those players showed up Sunday, too. James had 20 points, including a highlight-reel transition layup in which she smoothly took the ball around her back to change hands and avoid Miles' strip attempt in the second overtime. And Rivers barely missed a triple-double with 14 points, 13 rebounds, nine assists, two steals and three blocks.

Brooks offered a glimpse of an even higher ceiling for the Wolfpack.

"Notre Dame deserves all the attention and all that they get," Wolfpack coach Wes Moore said of the Irish's guards. "But I like ours, too. We've got some pretty good ones."