Photo from https://www.tidewaterpress.ca/ice-in-their-veins/ Ian Kennedy’s Ice in Their Veins: Women’s Relentless Pursuit of the Puck is an important update to women’s (stand-up) hockey history books. Unfortunately, but perhaps unsurprisingly, there are very few books on women’s hockey or its histories, and several of them are out of print. Here is a list, for those wanting…
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE clique [ICI]. Training camps for each Professional Women’s Hockey League team are set to start on November 15, 2023. This is a historical step for the league as it will mark the official on-ice start of this new league. Before that, the creation of the PWHL in the summer of…
Read the English version [HERE]. Les camps d’entraînement de la Ligue Professionnelle de Hockey Féminin (LPHF) vont commencer le 15 novembre 2023. C’est une étape historique pour la ligue car cela va marquer le début sur glace officiel de cette nouvelle ligue. Avant cela, la création de la LPHF à l’été 2023 a été historique…
On October 19th, 20th and 21st, 2023, The Indigenous Hockey Research Summit took place in Montreal, Quebec. Hosted by the Indigenous Hockey Research Network (IHRN), the summit is “A gathering of Indigenous hockey players, advocates, researchers and communities in pursuit of a more just game.” The summit hosts were Davina McLeod and Mike Makwa Auksi,…
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…
To read the English version click [HERE]. Le samedi 19 juin 2021, « c’est plus d’une soixante d’intervenants, de bénévoles, d’entraîneurs et de joueuses qui ont pris part au premier Sommet du hockey féminin. Durant cette journée de discussions, plusieurs constats et observations ont été faits avec l’objectif d’amener notre sport à développer son plein potentiel »…
Pour lire la version FRANÇAISE clique [ICI]. On Saturday June 19, 2021, “more than sixty volunteers, coaches and players took part in the first Women’s Hockey Summit /Sommet du hockey féminin. During this day of discussion and exchange, many observations and recommendations were shared in the hopes of developing women’s hockey to its full potential”…
Women’s hockey has long received the short end of the stick, but when the CWHL folded it laid bare how significant the disparities really were. Lack of viewership, sponsorship, media coverage, statistics, and wages are the common issues that come up but, with hindsight being 20/20, I realized that the lack of research on women’s…
Hockey is a slow game to adapt, painfully slow. Yet goaltending over the last quarter century has been completely revolutionized, far outpacing the myths the game thrives on. Hockey in Society alumus Cheryl MacDonald organized an interdisciplinary online symposium that brought together athletes and academics from science, social science, and arts backgrounds to discuss the…
Author’s Note: To be transparent, I know Sami Jo Small. She has been incredibly kind to me and I consider her a mentor and a friend. However, at the same time I have tried to be as honest and unbiased as I can be in my review of her autobiography. Luckily, but not surprisingly, I…
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