The Carolina Hurricanes took less than 24 hours to declare they'll match the offer sheet signed by restricted free agent center Sebastian Aho, which was tendered by the Montreal Canadiens on July 1.

Aho, 21, signed a five-year, $42.27 million contract. The deal runs through the 2023-24 season and carries an average annual value of $8.454 million. If the Hurricanes had let him walk, the Canadiens would have handed over first-, second- and third-round picks in the 2020 NHL draft.

The Hurricanes had a week to match the offer sheet, and announced on Tuesday their intention to match it, without specifying when they'd match. In theory, they could keep the Canadiens' compensatory draft picks tied up in this offer sheet for the full week before matching, preventing them from utilizing the picks in another offer sheet.

"This was an easy decision," GM Don Waddell said in a statement. "Sebastian is one of the best players in the league and the centerpiece of what we're building here. We've spoken to him throughout this process and he's made it clear that he wants to be in Raleigh and be a part of this organization. It's our job to manage our cap space as our players develop and hit free agency. There was no concern at any point that we would not be able to match this contract. Once again, the Carolina Hurricanes should not be underestimated. We have a plan and all the resources to win a Stanley Cup."

The Canadiens tried to lure away Aho, the Hurricanes' leading scorer, with the first signed offer sheet in the NHL since 2013. The offer sheet featured $11.3 million in signing-bonus money in the first year, and then $9.87 million in signing-bonus money in the second year -- the idea being that the Hurricanes would bristle at having to ante up $21.17 million to Aho in the span of a year.

The other aspect of the offer intended to scare off Carolina was the term. By giving Aho five years, the contract walks him right up to unrestricted free agency.

Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon said that he wasn't concerned that Montreal had tested his franchise's ability to financially handle an offer sheet.

"It was so ridiculous in terms of probability of succeeding. If it was a test, it was quite an easy one," he said. "Everyone's trying to make their team better. We've looked at all the way to make our team better, and never came to the conclusion that the offer sheet was the best way. Your probability of succeeding is almost zero. It was proven that it was a waste of time."

Montreal GM Marc Bergevin had explored other options among restricted free agents, including Brayden Point of the Tampa Bay Lightning, before targeting Aho.

"I looked at the options of what was available and that's what, as an organization, we looked at the closest and we identified that Sebastian Aho was the player. After the window opened we were able to talk, and he wants to be here," Bergevin said on Monday. "He agreed to this. He believes this is a really good offer for him and he wants to be part of the Montreal Canadiens."

But the Hurricanes clearly intend to have him remain in Raleigh.

The remaining questions after this offer sheet drama: If there's any lingering animosity toward Aho for signing it; and why the Canadiens didn't go higher with their offer, as the immediate reaction to the contract was that it wasn't lucrative enough, nor was the draft pick compensation compelling enough, to dissuade Carolina from matching.

Dundon downplayed the idea that Aho preferred to play in Montreal rather than Raleigh, saying that agent Gerry Johannson was the one making that claim.

"The question is do you think you should believe an agent, and you guys can figure that out," Dundon said. "If [Aho] said it, it would be different. But he didn't. The fact that an agent said it means there's no credibility to it."

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Dylan Cozens, the Buffalo Sabres' top draft pick, needs a "procedure" to repair an injured left thumb.

The Sabres provided the update Tuesday, a day after Cozens was scheduled to visit a specialist. Cozens will have the procedure Wednesday.

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— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) June 29, 2019

He was hurt Saturday during a three-on-three scrimmage on the final day of the Sabres' developmental camp. A video showed Cozens leaving the ice with his thumb appearing dislocated.

Afterward, the Canadian said he was confident his thumb wasn't broken.

The 18-year-old center was selected with the No. 7 pick in the draft last month.

Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele has joined Tottenham in a club-record £56.5 million deal with the potential for a further £8.5m to be paid in bonuses.

The 22-year-old France international has signed on until 2025.

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Ndombele made 49 appearances for Lyon last season, including eight Champions League starts, scoring three goals.

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— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) July 2, 2019

Ndombele signed for Lyon last summer from SC Amiens for €25m, going on to be named in the team of the year for both the Champions League and Ligue 1.

Champions League runners-up Spurs, who didn't spend a penny last season, previously set their transfer record with the signing of Colombia international defender Davinson Sanchez for £36m in 2017.

Earlier on Tuesday, Spurs announced Leeds United winger Jack Clarke had joined the club in a deal worth a reported £10 million.

Clarke, 18, passed a medical last week and will be loaned back to the Championship side for next season.

Megan Rapinoe is not in the starting lineup for the United States' semifinal match against England on Tuesday.

Christen Press has replaced Rapinoe for the 3 p.m. ET kickoff. Lindsey Horan is also starting in place of Sam Mewis.

Rapinoe did not participate in pregame warm-ups.

The decision to put Rapinoe on the bench was not disciplinary, according to a U.S. Soccer spokesperson.

Rapinoe has scored five goals in four matches during the Women's World Cup, including a pair of goals in both knockout matches for the Americans so far. She shares the lead for most goals at the World Cup with three others, including teammate Alex Morgan and England's Ellen White.

Rapinoe has also drawn attention from the release of a months-old video of her saying, "I'm not going to the f---ing White House" should the United States win a second straight Women's World Cup.

For England, Carly Telford has replaced Karen Bardsley as the starting goalkeeper. Bardsley has a hamstring injury.

Bardsley had not allowed a goal in England's last four matches in France.

Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby also are not in the starting lineup, replaced by Beth Mead and Rachel Daly.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

Smriti Mandhana, the star performer in Western Storm's ride to the Kia Super League semi-final in 2018, will rejoin the team for the upcoming 2019 season, alongside India team-mate Deepti Sharma.

Mandhana, the 22-year-old opener, topped the KSL batting charts last year with 421 runs at an average of 60.14 and a strike rate of 174.68, hitting a century and two half-centuries, helping Storm reach Finals Day before having to return for India duties.

"I enjoyed my time with Western Storm last year and I'm looking forward to coming back in 2019. We played some outstanding cricket last year and hopefully we can go a little further this season and lift the trophy," she said in a statement on the team's website. "Everyone involved with Western Storm made me feel so welcome and, if given the opportunity, I was always going to come back.

"The culture around the team, from top to bottom, was very good and I know that everyone will be looking for success once again. The squad has a good mix of experienced players plus young players who have a point to prove. I hope that I can score the runs that will help to contribute to a successful year for Western Storm."

Speaking about the signing, Storm head coach Trevor Griffin said, "Everyone knows what Smriti is capable of and she was absolutely sensational for us last year. Her performances on the field were superb and really set the tone for what we were trying to achieve in each match.

"It wasn't just the volume of her runs that was impressive, it was the manner in which they were scored that really caught the eye. She was exceptional off the field as well. Her team ethic and the way in which she goes about her training will no doubt inspire some of our younger players, who will certainly learn from someone like her."

On June 28, allrounder Deepti was announced as a Storm player, a few days after batsman Jemimah Rodrigues had signed up with Yorkshire Diamond.

Storm recently announced re-signing the England quartet comprising Heather Knight, Anya Shrubsole, Fran Wilson and Freya Davies, and the New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Rachel Priest, who have all been part of the franchise since the inaugural season, held in 2016.

There are a few contenders for the lowest moment in the history of England cricket. There have been defeats to the Netherlands, Ireland and Scotland. Global campaigns where it seemed they couldn't beat an egg. A home World Cup where, infamously, they lost before the theme song was released.

But if you want to find a single moment, a one-off game, where they didn't just plunge the depths, but went pot-holing in search of new ones, it is hard to look past February 20, 2015. Certainly, that's the view of Eoin Morgan, who reckons that defeat at the hands of New Zealand in the early stages of the previous World Cup was "rock bottom."

They weren't just defeated, he reckons, but "beaten off the park" in a manner that was "humiliating." Any pretense that England had a hope in that tournament - and there wasn't much, anyway - had been rubbished.

If Morgan's reflections on that game sound like an exaggeration, it may be worth a brief recap of what happened that afternoon in Wellington in February 2015. New Zealand took just 12.2 overs to chase down their target. Brendon McCullum smashed 77 in 25 balls while Steven Finn conceded 49 from his two overs. At one stage, England lost seven wickets for 19. The day-night match lasted, in its entirety, only 45.4 overs and was finished before there was a need to turn the lights on. It wasn't just a defeat; it was a massacre.

But sometimes rock bottom can prove a decent foundation. And, somewhere among the rubble of that World Cup campaign, Morgan came to some conclusions that were to prove the basis of England's resurgence over the next four years. And central to them was influence of that New Zealand side and their charismatic captain, McCullum.

Australia were a good side, of course. They nearly always are. They beat New Zealand in that World Cup final, after all. For many years, the default solution when England have struggled was to copy the Australian way. Remember all the keepers employed in the role of Adam Gilchrist? Or the legspinners asked to do an impression of Shane Warne? England aped their methods, employed their coaches and imitated their behaviour. Very often to no avail. So why not use them as a template?

The problem was that Australian side bristled and snarled. It seemed to need that energy. And while that worked for them, it didn't suit an England side containing Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Ian Bell et al. Remember Joe Root trying to sledge the Sri Lanka team of 2014? It was Shih Tzu employed as a guard dog. It didn't work and it didn't suit him.

So that New Zealand template was a far better fit. They still played aggressive, exhilarating cricket. But they did it with a smile and without the snarling and sledging for which Australia had become known. And their supporters weren't just proud of their results, they were proud of the way they played, the men they were and the nation they represented. In short: McCullum's New Zealand side showed England that you could play brilliant, aggressive cricket - the sort of cricket that can inspire a side and a new generation of followers - without being prats.

"It was as close to rock bottom as I've been," Morgan said of the 2015 defeat on Tuesday. "Certainly as a captain and as a player: being beaten off the park like that is humiliating.

"It was a terrible day. One of those moments in my career that will stand out forever in my life as a day where I was devastated not only with the way we performed but also the way we carried ourselves.

"But the influence of New Zealand throughout that whole World Cup on all the other teams around the world was quite extreme. New Zealand proved a point that you can actually be really good humans and grow the game and play cricket in your own way and win at the same time. It was incredibly eye-opening for a lot of countries around the world. I thought that rubbed off on everybody at the World Cup."

It was an impression strengthened in the months that followed. McCullum led his New Zealand team to the UK at the start of the 2015 season where they contested an especially entertaining series of games against a reborn England. In the first ODI, England made 400 for the first time and, three days later, made their highest score (at the time) batting second: 365-9. And still lost. Both sides played brilliant, outrageous, attacking cricket in a series that was a fantastic advert for the game. The Test series - in which Ben Stokes was recalled to bat at No. 6 and told he was staying there - was hardly less entertaining. The 'McCullumisation' of English cricket was underway. So was its revival.

England reminded themselves of the values and priorities instilled in those days following the defeat against Australia. They held a team meeting - much more of a rarity these days than was once the case - where they spoke honestly about their failings in the tournament to date. The consensus seemed to be: we've strayed from the method that made us; we need to get back to it.

"We haven't needed those meetings often," Morgan told the BBC. "It's happened a couple of times before, but not under the pressure of a World Cup. But the Australia game was clearly very frustrating for everyone in the changing room because we hadn't played to our potential. It wasn't that we had lost a few games, it was that we hadn't played anywhere near to the standard of the last four years. That was the most frustrating thing.

"So we discussed being adaptable and trying to stick to our strengths. Trying to play our A game with the bat and the ball and not trying to change anything that has got us to being No. 1 or see us coming into the tournament as joint-favourites.

"The majority of the guys spoke in the meeting. I thought it was extremely productive. The guys came out of it feeling energised, motivated and eager to take on India. It was a good clear indicator to reset, accept where we are at the moment and give clear direction on what we need to do in order to get to the semi-finals. It was extremely pleasing not just to win, but player in the manner we did. It gives the guys a lot of confidence."

They may need that confidence on Wednesday. The aftermath could be even worse than Wellington. Not in performance, perhaps - both sides really would have to go some to recreate those margins - but in outcomes. The simple fact is, this could be England's final match of the tournament: lose and there is a good chance they will be eliminated. And they haven't come all this way - figuratively, at least - to go out at this stage.

They go into the match, at least, with many things the way they want them. With the weather improving all the time, this Durham pitch looks hard and full of runs; the England management reckon it is the best batting surface they have encountered so far. And while there are aches and pains throughout the squad, Jofra Archer and Jason Roy are both deemed to be fit. Mark Wood is sore but should be fit, leaving Moeen Ali again likely to miss out.

Much as England want to win - you could make a case to suggest this is England biggest ODI since 1992; it's actually their biggest since Sunday - Morgan is insisting his team stick to their mantra: concentrate on the process.

"Part of the meeting the other day was to emphasise the process we've been through," he said. "The hard work we've put in and also the hard work you have to put in in order to earn the right to win a game of cricket. It will be a matter of staying in the moment and trying to stick to that process. And not being lured into worrying about consequences."

There's a lot to like about this England ODI team. Over the last four years, they've played some bold and brilliant cricket and given us rich entertainment. They've also done everything they can to reengage with a public who seemed, in part, to have fallen out of love with their sport and their team. If the game was still broadcast free-to-air, you suspect many of them would be household names and fine role-models. Early elimination would not entirely erase that, but it would be disingenuous to pretend it would not damage their legacy and their chance to reach a new generation. Put simply, success sells a lot easier than failure. England owe New Zealand plenty, but they have to be ungrateful on Wednesday.

India 314 for 9 (Rohit 104, Rahul 77, Pant 48, Mustafizur 5-59) beat Bangladesh 286 (Shakib 66, Saifuddin 51, Bumrah 4-55, Pandya 3-60) by 28 runs
As it happened

Bangladesh are out of the 2019 World Cup. They've beaten the teams they were expected to beat, and also a couple they may not have been, but they haven't managed to win any of their meetings with the tournament favourites, despite looking impressive and coming close on a couple of occasions. They came close against India at Edgbaston, but not close enough, falling 29 runs short in a chase of 315.

With this result, India become the second team after Australia to seal a spot in the semi-finals. They won an important toss, and got to a hugely advantageous position via a 180-run opening stand between Rohit Sharma, who scored his fourth hundred of this World Cup, and KL Rahul. Bangladesh kept chipping away at that advantage, with Mustafizur Rahman's cutters limiting the damage India could do in the slog overs, and their batsmen keeping them close to the required rate right through their chase, but they never completely nullified it.

Bangladesh lost a few too many wickets off not particularly threatening deliveries, and ended up with only two half-centurions - the unfaltering Shakib Al Hasan and their No. 8 Mohammad Saifuddin. That, in the end, sealed the deal.

The match was played on the same pitch that hosted the England-India match on Sunday, and it remained the same kind of pitch: flat but progressively slower. It also meant the square boundaries were the same - short on one side, long on the other. Both teams picked their teams with the boundaries rather than the surface in mind: spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Mehidy Hasan went out, and seamers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rubel Hossain came in.

Batting first was a no-brainer, and Rohit and Rahul gave India the perfect start. Bangladesh's bowlers took a while getting used to the conditions, and offered plenty of hittable balls, with Rohit in particularly damaging form, pulling Mashrafe Mortaza and launching Saifuddin over extra-cover for big sixes in the first six overs. Bangladesh could have dismissed him in between, for 9, but Tamim Iqbal dropped a sitter at deep square leg when he miscued a pull off Mustafizur. That miss will go down alongside the no-ball from the 2015 World Cup quarter-final in the annals of what-if moments in Rohit vs Bangladesh.

More to follow...

Megan Rapinoe is not in the starting lineup for the United States' semifinal match against England on Tuesday.

Christen Press has replaced Rapinoe for the 3 p.m. ET kickoff. Lindsey Horan is also starting in place of Sam Mewis.

Rapinoe did not participate in pregame warm-ups.

The decision to put Rapinoe on the bench was not disciplinary, according to a U.S. Soccer spokesperson.

Rapinoe has scored five goals in four matches during the Women's World Cup, including a pair of goals in both knockout matches for the Americans so far. She shares the lead for most goals at the World Cup with three others, including teammate Alex Morgan and England's Ellen White.

She has also drawn attention from the release of a months-old video of Rapinoe saying, "I'm not going to the f---ing White House" should the United States win a second straight Women's World Cup.

For England, Carly Telford has replaced Karen Bardsley as the starting goalkeeper. Bardsley has a hamstring injury.

Bardsley had not allowed a goal in England's last four matches in France.

Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby also are not in the starting lineup, replaced by Beth Mead and Rachel Daly.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.