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Longtime Loyola-Chicago men's basketball chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt died on Thursday at age 106, the school announced. Known simply as Sister Jean, she gained international fame in 2018 when she was the spiritual leader of an underdog Ramblers squad that advanced to the Final Four. She was 98 at the time, and she shined in the media spotlight. "In many roles at Loyola over the course of more than 60 years, Sister Jean was an invaluable source of wisdom and grace for generations of students, faculty, and staff," Loyola president Mark C. Reed said in a statement. "While we feel grief and a sense of loss, there is great joy in her legacy. Her presence was a profound blessing for our entire community, and her spirit abides in thousands of lives. In her honor, we can aspire to share with others the love and compassion Sister Jean shared with us." Just two weeks before her death, Sister Jean announced her retirement from her official duties with the men's basketball team, citing health issues. She had been with Loyola-Chicago since 1991, and she first became the men's basketball team's academic adviser in 1994. Sister Jean later moved to a role as team chaplain. The university inducted Sister Jean into its Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017. Dolores Bertha Schmidt, born in San Francisco in 1919, became a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) in 1937. "Sister Jean Dolores was a woman of prayer, dedicated educator, and a bearer of hope who loved her BVM Community," BVM president LaDonna Manternach said in a statement released by Loyola-Chicago. "She saw God present in all that surrounded her and trusted in His goodness. Her presence with us will be greatly missed." –Field Level Media

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Justin Brazeau scored the go-ahead goal with 5:39 remaining in the third period, helping the host Pittsburgh Penguins spoil the debut of top overall draft pick Matthew Schaefer with a 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday. Evgeni Malkin collected three assists while Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell each had one goal and one assist for Pittsburgh, which won its second consecutive game to start the season. Rookie Penguins defenseman Harrison Brunicke also tallied to become the first South African-born skater to score a goal in the NHL. Pittsburgh goalie Tristan Jarry made 34 saves. Schaefer, at 18 years and 34 days old, notched an assist on Jonathan Drouin's first-period goal to become the youngest defenseman to collect a point in his NHL debut. Kyle Palmieri and Maxim Shabanov each scored a goal in the Islanders' season opener. Ilya Sorokin stopped 24 shots in the loss. Stars 5, Jets 4 Kyle Connor scored a hat trick the day after signing an eight-year, $96 million extension with Winnipeg, but the Jets fell to Dallas in both teams' opening game. Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists for the Stars, and Jason Robertson and Nils Lundkvist each chipped in a goal and an assist. Tyler Seguin and Wyatt Johnston also tallied. Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger made 21 stops. Morgan Barron also scored for Winnipeg, while Mark Scheifele had three assists. Dylan DeMelo added two helpers, and Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves for the Jets. Bruins 4, Blackhawks 3 (OT) Fraser Minten's goal at 2:12 of overtime lifted Boston to a win over visiting Chicago. Casey Mittelstadt, Tanner Jeannot and Elias Lindholm were the other scorers and Joonas Korpisalo made 21 saves for the Bruins, who tied Toronto for the longest active streak in the NHL with 10 straight home-opening victories. Connor Bedard and Andre Burakovsky led the Blackhawks with a goal and an assist apiece. Louis Crevier also scored, and Arvid Soderblom made 29 saves. Wild 5, Blues 0 Ryan Hartman scored two goals and Minnesota pulled away for a win at St. Louis in the season opener for both teams. Matt Boldy added a goal and two assists for the Wild. Marco Rossi finished with a goal and an assist, Joel Eriksson Ek scored a goal, and Kirill Kaprizov notched three assists. Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson stopped all 26 shots he faced. Blues goalie Jordan Binnington allowed five goals on 21 shots. Rangers 4, Sabres 0 Igor Shesterkin made 37 saves and visiting New York pulled away late for a win over Buffalo. J.T. Miller and Alexis Lafreniere each had a goal and an assist for the Rangers, who gave new coach Mike Sullivan his first win with the team after New York lost 3-0 to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday. Carson Soucy and Adam Fox also scored for the Rangers. Alex Lyon made 29 saves for the Sabres, opening-night losers who enter the 2025-26 season looking to end a 14-season Stanley Cup playoff drought. Panthers 2, Flyers 1 Brad Marchand scored the go-ahead goal with 17:41 left in the third period, leading Florida to a win over Philadelphia in Sunrise, Fla. Anton Lundell also scored and Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves for the Panthers, the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions. Florida defenseman Dmitry Kulikov sustained an apparent arm injury in the second period and did not return. Noah Cates scored for Philadelphia. Goalie Daniel Vladar played well in his Flyers debut, recording 32 saves. Canadiens 5, Red Wings 1 Mike Matheson scored a goal and added an assist while Jakub Dobes logged 30 saves as visiting Montreal spoiled Detroit's season opener. Zack Bolduc, Oliver Kapanen, Alexandre Carrier and Juraj Slafkovsky each added a goal for the Canadiens, who quickly recovered from a 5-2 season-opening loss to the Maple Leafs on Wednesday. Nick Suzuki and Brendan Gallagher supplied two assists apiece. Dylan Larkin scored for the Red Wings, who got a forgettable debut from John Gibson. The starting goaltender yielded five goals and stopped just eight shots before he was removed in the second period. Cam Talbot turned aside all four shots he faced the rest of the way. Hurricanes 6, Devils 3 Seth Jarvis broke a tie late in the game with the first of his two goals and new teammate K'Andre Miller scored twice in his team debut as Carolina beat New Jersey in the season opener for both teams at Raleigh, N.C. Taylor Hall supplied a goal and an assist for the Hurricanes, while teammates Sebastian Aho and Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists apiece. Frederik Andersen made 19 saves. Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist while Dougie Hamilton and Cody Glass each scored for the Devils. Luke Hughes provided two assists, and Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves. Senators 5, Lightning 4 Shane Pinto's second goal, a rebound, go-ahead score with 1:47 remaining, lifted Ottawa to a season-opening victory over host Tampa Bay. Pinto, who also had an assist, scored the tiebreaking tally. Claude Giroux added an empty-net goal as the Senators rallied twice from two-goal deficits in the win. Artem Zub had a goal and two assists, Dylan Cozens scored and Brady Tkachuk added three helpers. Linus Ullmark stopped 21 shots for the visitors. The Lightning's Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, Nikita Kucherov scored twice and Oliver Bjorkstrand added one goal. Darren Raddysh, Victor Hedman and Jake Guentzel each had two assists. Avalanche 2, Mammoth 1 Nathan MacKinnon scored a go-ahead goal early in the third period, Ross Colton also had a goal, and Colorado beat Utah in its home opener at Denver. Scott Wedgewood turned away 32 shots for the Avalanche, who improved to 2-0-0 on the season. Dylan Guenther scored and Karel Vejmelka made 25 saves for the Mammoth in their season opener. Predators 2, Blue Jackets 1 Juuse Saros stopped 37 shots and Ryan O'Reilly scored a power-play goal in the third period to lift host Nashville to a victory over Columbus in the season opener for both teams. While Brady Martin became just the second 18-year-old to play for the Predators, it was the thirty-somethings who got Nashville its first two points of the season. Besides O'Reilly, 34, the Predators also got a goal from Michael Bunting, 30. Erik Haula, 34; Filip Forsberg, 31; and Roman Josi, 35; tallied assists. Dimitri Voronkov scored for the Blue Jackets, who got 29 saves from Jet Greaves. Golden Knights 4, Sharks 3 (OT) Reilly Smith scored at 1:24 of overtime as Vegas rallied for a victory at San Jose, spoiling the Sharks' season opener. Jack Eichel had a goal and an assist for Vegas, which improved to 15-0-3 all- time in regular-season games played at San Jose. Pavel Dorofeyev and Brett Howden also scored, Mark Stone logged two assists and Akira Schmid made 20 saves for the Golden Knights, who improved to 28-2-5 all-time against the Sharks. Philipp Kurashev, Jeff Skinner and Alexander Wennberg scored goals and Shakir Mukhamadullin had two assists for San Jose. Kraken 3, Ducks 1 Joey Daccord made 35 saves as Seattle won an opener — either season or home — for the first time in its five years of existence, defeating visiting Anaheim. Vince Dunn, Mason Marchment and Jared McCann scored for the Kraken, who won their first game under new coach Lane Lambert. Anaheim's Bennett Sennecke, the third overall pick in the 2024 draft, tallied in his NHL debut. Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal stopped 28 of 31 shots. Canucks 5, Flames 1 Thatcher Demko saved 17 of the 18 shots he faced and Filip Chytil scored twice as Vancouver beat visiting Calgary to win its season opener. Kiefer Sherwood, Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Brock Boeser also scored for the Canucks. Evander Kane recorded an assist in his Vancouver debut. Morgan Frost scored for the Flames, who won their opener on Wednesday. Dustin Wolf made 21 saves while starting for the second night in a row. –Field Level Media

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* KOSPI rises, foreigners net buyers * Korean won weakens against dollar * South Korea benchmark bond yield rises * For the midday report, please click SEOUL, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Round-up of South Korean financial markets: ** South Korean shares resumed their record-setting rally on Friday following a break for local holidays, underpinned by chipmakers, driven by optimism around artificial intelligence. The won weakened, while the benchmark bond yield rose. ** The benchmark KOSPI rose 61.39 points, or 1.73%, to 3,610.60, a record close. The market remained shut this week from Monday to Thursday on account of local Chuseok and other public holidays. ** Among index heavyweights, chipmaker Samsung Electronics rose 6.07% and peer SK Hynix gained 8.22%. Battery maker LG Energy Solution slid 9.90%. ** The South Korean chipmakers, which signed a supply deal with OpenAI just before the local holiday from October 3-9, extended gains to a third consecutive session. ** However, the risk appetite remained weak across broader financial markets, with the country's central bank saying it would closely monitor conditions as global risk factors had slightly increased over the holiday period. ** Hyundai Motor and sister automaker Kia fell 1.36% and 3.45%, respectively. Steelmaker POSCO Holdings shed 3.66%, while drugmaker Samsung BioLogics rose 0.50%. ** Of the total 930 traded issues, 276 advanced and 624 declined. ** Foreigners were net buyers of shares worth 1,060.0 billion won ($745.9 million). ** The won was quoted at 1,421.0 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform, 0.99% below Thursday's close of 1,407.0. ** The KOSPI has risen 50.47% year-to-date. ** The won has strengthened 3.6% against the dollar so far this year. ** In the money and debt markets, December futures on three-year treasury bonds lost 0.03 point to 106.76. ** The most liquid three-year Korean treasury bond yield rose 1.4 basis points to 2.592%, while the benchmark 10-year yield added 0.8 basis points to 2.965%. ($1 = 1,421.0300 won) (Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by Sumana Nandy)

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Oct 10 (Reuters) – Acenta Group AB: * SIGNS SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT WITH LET'S GO HYDRO WORTH APPROXIMATELY SEK 1.9 MILLION Source text: Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom)

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(Updates prices) Oct 10 (Reuters) – Oil prices declined on Friday after settling 1.6% lower in the previous session as the market's risk premium faded after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a plan to end the war in Gaza. Brent crude futures were down 24 cents, or 0.4%, at $64.98 a barrel by 0636 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 20 cents, or 0.3%, to $61.31. Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement on Thursday in the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's initiative to end the war in Gaza. Under the deal, which Israel's government ratified on Friday, fighting will cease, Israel will partially withdraw from Gaza, and Hamas will free all remaining hostages it captured in the attack that precipitated the war, in exchange for hundreds of prisoners held by Israel. On a weekly basis, both benchmarks were up around 0.7% after falling steeply last week. Prices climbed about 1% on Wednesday to a one-week high because of the stalled progress on a Ukraine peace deal, a sign that sanctions against Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter, could continue. The Gaza ceasefire deal was a major step towards ending the two-year war that has raised the risk of oil supply disruptions, Daniel Hynes, an analyst at ANZ, said in a note on Friday. "This (deal) saw the focus move back to the impending oil surplus, as OPEC proceeds with the unwinding of production cuts," Hynes said. A smaller-than-expected November hike in output agreed by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+) on Sunday eased some of those oversupply concerns. "Markets’ expectations for a sharp ramp up in crude supply have not manifested themselves in substantially lower prices," BMI analysts said in a note on Friday. "The most recent rise in production is lower than previously feared contributing to a slight rise in prices for the week," they said. Investors are also worried that a prolonged U.S. government shutdown could dampen the American economy and hurt oil demand in the world's largest crude consumer. (Reporting by Sudarshan Varadhan; Editing by Tom Hogue and Christian Schmollinger)

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