2nd CWHL All-Star Game: Views from the 6th Floor Media Gondola

By Alvin Ma “Teams descend on the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the biggest stage of hockey.” This quote came from a World Cup of Hockey advertisement on the jumbotron but many similar messages came from the players and the organizers of the CWHL All-Star Game, held for the second consecutive season in Toronto. I’ve…

Weekly Links: Sexism in hockey media and fan groups; NHL expansion news and rumours; Ovechkin supports separatists in Ukraine?; and more

Welcome to Hockey in Society’s Weekly Links post. This feature highlights articles or blog entries that are related to Hockey in Society’s areas of interest and that may be of interest to the site’s readers. Please check out some of the great writing that is happening in the hockey media and blogosphere! Alexander Ovechkin, who…

“I remember just being so frustrated because I wanted to play”: Former youth hockey player Brianna Thicke speaks about being a girl playing boys’ hockey and the prospects for an elite women’s hockey league

Brianna Thicke is an 18 year-old from Montreal, Quebec. Brianna has been an active athlete her entire life and participated in youth hockey from the age of 5 until she quit the sport as a teenager. She is currently studying Communications at the post-secondary level, and recently completed a project on the state of elite…