Co-Authored by Cheryl MacDonald and Courtney Szto (with assistance from Brock McGillis). This fall season Ontario hockey coaches have an additional mandate: they need to talk to their players about gender identity. While the intent behind this move is seemingly progressive and an important step towards achieving gender justice, it also raises a host of questions…
About our Guest Author: Kelley Lee Gilmore is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. Her passion for hockey began in 1972 after her teacher rolled a television into her Grade 5 classroom for the iconic final game of the Canada-Russia series. However, without family…
An addiction panic is sweeping the NHL. Gambling? Drugs? Nope, it’s the popular video game Fortnite. There’s an urban legend that a prominent NHL draft pick will never have a career due to his “addiction” to the game. Draft prospects have been advised to delete references to the game from their social media. So what terrifies NHL…
Formerly known as “Weekly Links,” our round-up of important and interesting pieces from the hockey blogosphere and media now appears every 2-4 weeks. The Toronto Maple Leafs made a number of front office hires, which included some notable positions for women: Hayley Wickenheiser becomes Assistant Director of Player Development and Noelle Needham as an amateur…
Hockey moms represent an integral pillar of hockey culture. So much so that in Canada there is a website called “Canadian Hockey Moms” dedicated to connecting and supporting all the rink moms. Gongshow apparel has even written an open letter to hockey moms expressing, “Thank you for giving us that extra 10 minutes on the…
*Trigger Warning* Post touches on suicide. Characterized as a community, hockey has the potential to create a space for the formation of connections and a feeling of belonging. The possible positive effects of participating in a hockey community have begun to be documented for more active participants – players, coaches or parents – but are…
I was privileged enough to attend Caroline Ouellette and Marie-Philip Poulin’s adult hockey camp in Montreal, Quebec this past weekend. When registration came around this year I signed up IMMEDIATELY because (like many of you) all I want to do is play hockey all day, every day (even though my body seems to disagree with…
