The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. The PWHPA is heading to Tokyo to play a three game series against the Japanese National Women’s Hockey team. [PWHPA] Kuwait opened it’s newest ice rink with the inaugural 2020 Open Championship for Professional Arab Clubs and an exhibition game…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. The World Para Ice Hockey (WPIH) is aiming to hold the first Women’s World Championship in October 2021. [Canada Women’s Sledge Hockey] Melissa Burgess recaps the NWHL All-Star Game for The Victory Press. Eleni Demestihas looks at potential cities for…
Madison Danford (@maddydanford) is a first year PhD student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is working with Dr. Courtney Szto in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies in the socio-cultural stream. Madison is interested in hockey, gender, intersectionality, nationalism and identity. Her Master’s thesis examined the experiences of women ice hockey officials…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. The UK Elite Ice Hockey League’s Manchester Storm defender Zach Sullivan is the first professional male ice hockey player to publicly identify as bisexual. [BBC] “As long as I am the president, women’s hockey will be in the budget of…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. “My take on the N.H.L. involvement is, these women deserve everything the N.H.L. has available to them resource-wise. I don’t think the N.H.L. deserves one lick of their attention, though.” – Hockey in Society Associate Editor Courtney Szto closing out…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. 3ICE, a professional (details to come on that) 3 on 3 men’s league begins in June and already has television coverage on TSN & RDS in Canada and CBS in the US. [TSN] The NHL All-Star added a 3-on-3 game…
The PWHPA’s Dream Gap Tour rolled into Toronto for another showcase on January 11th and 12th, this time sponsored by Secret deodorant. This weekend was definitely a more intense version of the first showcase with more teams, games, venues, and peripheral events, all hoping to draw as many spectators and viewers to women’s hockey as…
