On Friday, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) announced the 2020 Women’s World Rankings. Per the IIHF, the annual rankings are based on the results in the World Championships and Olympic Winter Games (including Olympic Qualification) of the last four years. The 2020 edition is used for the seeding for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games….
Even with sports on pause, the NWHL continues to push forward towards next season. McKenna Brand is the latest player to sign a contract. The breakout star from the past two seasons is coming back for another season with the Boston Pride in 2020-21. Brand finished with 36 points (19 goals and 17 assists) in…
History continues to be made in the sport of hockey. For the first time in the game’s history, a woman will hold the position of General Manager. On Wednesday, long-time Swiss women’s goaltender Florence Schelling was named the General Manager of SC Bern in the Swiss Men’s Hockey League. She becomes the first female GM…
Last week, NHL Network presented a full day of women’s hockey featuring Team USA. Sportsnet is joining the party in an effort to promote women’s hockey on television as they will be showing old CWHL games six times in the next two weeks. The best players in the world used to call this league home…
This week should have been the start of the 2020 IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship. However, that event was cancelled back in March because of the coronavirus outbreak. Ever since the NHL paused their season, networks have been showing replays of hockey games, mostly NHL and men’s Olympics. We wondered, through over two weeks, if…
Following up on last week’s story about how the time is right to grow women’s hockey on television, it appears NBC is taking a step in the right direction to help promote the game of women’s hockey. As the sports world remains on pause, NBC and NBCSN are extending “Hockey Week in America” through the…
With the sport of women’s hockey gaining so much traction over the past year, we can’t let these players fade from our minds. It is a shame that this year’s IIHF Women’s World Championships got cancelled because of the coronavirus. The stage was set for another classic tournament featuring Team USA and Canada. The only…
The hockey world could have its first casualty as the growing fear of the Coronavirus spreads. According to a new report coming from TSN’s Darren Dreger, the International Ice Hockey Federation are making plans to cancel the 2020 Women’s World Hockey Championships later this month taking place in Halifax and Turo Nova Scotia The IIHF…
Kendall Coyne-Schofield said it best. “If you build it, they will come.” That is exactly what happened this weekend in Philadelphia as the PWHPA made its fifth stop on the Dream Gap Tour. Fans poured into the Flyers Skate Zone to see some of the very best female hockey players in the world compete. The…
What a thrilling and exciting way to end a great weekend. Day Two of the Dream Gap Tour in Philadelphia concluded with a walk-off win by Team Turnbull. In a thrilling championship game that went to overtime, it was Team Turnbull rallying from a 3-1 deficit to win by a final score of 4-3 over…