2019 Clarkson Cup final, Jessica Rochwerg was filled with unrelenting exhaustion and the adrenaline of success. Since joining the CWHL as its communications supervisor in August, she had guided the league through its season kickoff, a demanding all-star weekend and had just finished a stretch of near-endless workdays to ensure Clarkson Cup weekend went off without a hitch. And it did. The Calgary Inferno defeated Les Canadiennes de Montreal in a contest featuring more than a dozen Olympians. With 175,000 people tuning in, it was the most-watched game in CWHL history.Rochwerg relished in...…2019 Clarkson Cup final, Jessica Rochwerg was filled with unrelenting exhaustion and the adrenaline of success. Since joining the CWHL as its communications supervisor in August, she had guided the league through its season kickoff, a demanding all-star weekend and had just finished a stretch of near-endless workdays to ensure Clarkson Cup weekend went off without a hitch. And it did. The Calgary Inferno defeated Les Canadiennes de Montreal in a contest featuring more than a dozen Olympians. With 175,000 people tuning in, it was the most-watched game in CWHL history.Rochwerg relished in...WW…

September 13, 2022Probably one of the last things anyone is, or should be, concerned about at the moment are the hockey futures of Washington Capitals fourth-liner Brendan Leipsic and Florida Panthers prospect Jack Rodewald. Actually, the more pressing concern is that someone out there – namely Leipsic and Rodewald and perhaps others – could ever think it was acceptable to behave in such a misogynistic way, either privately or publicly. Then to portray yourself somehow as a victim in your apology? Man, that’s very difficult to swallow. In any event, it’s difficult to fathom any circumstance...…September 13, 2022Probably one of the last things anyone is, or should be, concerned about at the moment are the hockey futures of Washington Capitals fourth-liner Brendan Leipsic and Florida Panthers prospect Jack Rodewald. Actually, the more pressing concern is that someone out there – namely Leipsic and Rodewald and perhaps others – could ever think it was acceptable to behave in such a misogynistic way, either privately or publicly. Then to portray yourself somehow as a victim in your apology? Man, that’s very difficult to swallow. In any event, it’s difficult to fathom any circumstance...WW…

September 13, 2022By Alan BassBill Baker is often known for his game-tying goal against Sweden in the opening game of the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.; a game that helped propel Team USA to the medal round before their famous Miracle on Ice upset of the Soviet Union en route to the gold medal. His powerful one-timer from a Mark Pavelich pass tied the game 2-2. However, the hands that were once used to handle a puck are now being put to use in the doctor’s office as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Baker, having played for Team USA coach Herb Brooks for the previous four years at the...…September 13, 2022By Alan BassBill Baker is often known for his game-tying goal against Sweden in the opening game of the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.; a game that helped propel Team USA to the medal round before their famous Miracle on Ice upset of the Soviet Union en route to the gold medal. His powerful one-timer from a Mark Pavelich pass tied the game 2-2. However, the hands that were once used to handle a puck are now being put to use in the doctor’s office as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Baker, having played for Team USA coach Herb Brooks for the previous four years at the...WW…

September 14, 2022If you’re familiar with Dr. Courtney Szto’s Twitter feed, you already know she’s a hockey fanatic. One of her most joyful contributions to fighting hockey boredom during the COVID-19 pandemic has been her collection of indoor dangling videos. It should thus come as no surprise that, before she became an assistant professor at the school of kinesiology and health studies at Queen’s University, her doctoral work focused on hockey. It was an excuse to hang around rinks, she jokes, but her passion for the game drew her to a subject that transcended the fun side of playing it....…September 14, 2022If you’re familiar with Dr. Courtney Szto’s Twitter feed, you already know she’s a hockey fanatic. One of her most joyful contributions to fighting hockey boredom during the COVID-19 pandemic has been her collection of indoor dangling videos. It should thus come as no surprise that, before she became an assistant professor at the school of kinesiology and health studies at Queen’s University, her doctoral work focused on hockey. It was an excuse to hang around rinks, she jokes, but her passion for the game drew her to a subject that transcended the fun side of playing it....WW…

September 14, 2022It was midway through the 2002-03 season and the Sarnia Sting were on a road trip. Rookie goalie Ryan Munce remembers sitting at the desk in his hotel room and scrawling a note. He had just been bullied and abused, again, by his veteran teammates and was jotting down some of his thoughts and emotions. It was then that he admitted he was suicidal. At that moment, the same veterans barged into his hotel room and grabbed the note from him. Not long after, Munce found the note crumpled up and shoved under his door. It was never mentioned again, not by his teammates and not by...…September 14, 2022It was midway through the 2002-03 season and the Sarnia Sting were on a road trip. Rookie goalie Ryan Munce remembers sitting at the desk in his hotel room and scrawling a note. He had just been bullied and abused, again, by his veteran teammates and was jotting down some of his thoughts and emotions. It was then that he admitted he was suicidal. At that moment, the same veterans barged into his hotel room and grabbed the note from him. Not long after, Munce found the note crumpled up and shoved under his door. It was never mentioned again, not by his teammates and not by...WW…

September 14, 2022Note: There are allegations made in the following story that may disturb some readers. Just three days after a former major junior hockey player alleged that he was forced to do cocaine in a bathroom as a rookie with the Kitchener Rangers in 2016, two former CHL players have launched a class-action lawsuit alleging that players aged 15 to 17 were, “routinely victims to hazing, bullying, physical and verbal harassment, physical assault, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.” The lawsuit, launched in Toronto on Thursday afternoon against the Canadian Hockey League, the...…September 14, 2022Note: There are allegations made in the following story that may disturb some readers. Just three days after a former major junior hockey player alleged that he was forced to do cocaine in a bathroom as a rookie with the Kitchener Rangers in 2016, two former CHL players have launched a class-action lawsuit alleging that players aged 15 to 17 were, “routinely victims to hazing, bullying, physical and verbal harassment, physical assault, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.” The lawsuit, launched in Toronto on Thursday afternoon against the Canadian Hockey League, the...WW…