It’s a battle within yourself. You want and need to play hockey so bad, as it’s a way to feel like yourself again, but at the same time feeling judged by others for bringing your kids with you and parenting from the ice and bench, like a bad mom. ~ Heidi When I started playing…
Co-Authored by Courtney Szto and Brett Pardy You want to keep salaries low? Don’t let employees talk about them. For decades, owners of NHL teams knew this. In Gordie: A Hockey Legend, author Roy MacSkimming writes about how Gordie Howe discovered at the age of 40, in the 1967-68 season, just how underpaid he was.…
Co-Authored by Courtney Szto and Brett Pardy. Rosie Dimanno, columnist for the Toronto Star, came out guns-a-blazing when she wrote that the women’s hockey competition is “an easy gold” due to the lack of parity in the game. She referenced Canada’s first two wins where they outscored their opponents 23-2 as “abomination domination.” The weird…
Translated by Barbara Ravel. For the English version click [HERE]. Qu’est-ce qu’on essaie d’atteindre au travers de ce trou noir pour imaginer ce qu’il y a de l’autre côté ? La tâche d’imaginer autrement ne pourrait être plus importante. ~ Kimberle Crenshaw La plupart d’entre nous ne comprenait pas la menace que la maladie à…
Co-Authored by Courtney Szto and Brett Pardy Last year, we tackled three common myths that circulate around discussions of women’s hockey: Myth 1: “No one wants to watch women’s hockey“ Myth 2: “Time is all you need“ Myth 3: “You get what you deserve“ With the NWHL’s recent announcement that it will expand to Toronto,…
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE cliquer [ICI]. What is it that we’re reaching through this black hole to imagine on the other side? The work of imagining otherwise could not be more important. ~ Kimberle Crenshaw Most of us didn’t really understand the threat that Covid-19 posed until the NBA suspended its season on March 11th…
I was supposed to present the following discussion on women’s hockey at the 2020 Hockey Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia this spring; however, due to Covid-19, the conference has been re-scheduled for 2021. I don’t anticipate being able to attend that conference but I think this is still a discussion that needs to be shared.…
TSN has been using the above promo for the current World Junior tournament in an attempt to convince people to watch the legends of tomorrow before they become legends. The voice over starts, “Before they were household names, they were here on TSN,” with imagery of much younger versions of Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid.…
Every four years, hockey fans in Canada and the United States gather around their televisions and in bars to cheer on this generation’s best rivalry on ice: the US women’s national ice hockey team versus the Canadian national women’s team. The Pyeongchang final drew almost 3 million viewers (for a midnight start) in the United…
“Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 