The Canadian women's hockey team will play Alberta Junior A men's teams as part of its preparation for February's Winter Olympics.
Fresh off the 2021 Women's World Championship in Calgary, TSN Hockey analyst and two-time Olympic gold medallist Cheryl Pounder reveals her top five women's players from the around the world, honourable mentions and which players could find themselves on the list sooner rather than later.
Jessie Eldridge scored with 15 seconds left to play but Canada's women's national hockey team still lost to the Cranbrook Bucks 8-3 on Tuesday.
Sarah Fillier had the only goal for Canada's women's national hockey team as it fell to the Trail Smoke Eaters 5-1 on Monday.
Countries will have until Oct. 15 to submit their lists of 50 players or so for the men's Olympic hockey tournament in Beijing next year, tweets TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun. Final rosters will be submitted sometime in early January but that date has not yet been finalized.
Hockey Canada has announced the cancellation of three major tournaments on Monday due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
French official Luc Tardif was elected president of the International Ice Hockey Federation on Saturday ahead of the return of NHL players to the Olympics in February.
The national women's team, currently centralized in Calgary to prepare for the 2022 Winter Olympics, will travel to face the Trail Smoke Eaters on Oct. 4 and the Cranbrook Bucks on Oct. 5.
Captain Marie-Philip Poulin scores the overtime winner to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the 2021 Women’s World Hockey Championship gold-medal game on Tuesday. Salim Valji has more.
Canadian forward Blayre Turnbull suffered a broken fibula during the team’s celebration after winning the gold medal on Tuesday, according to a report by TSN’s Meaghen Johnson. Turnbull is expected to be back skating in 6-8 weeks.
Finland won the bronze medal at the women's world hockey championship with a 3-1 win Tuesday over Switzerland.
Hilary Knight set a new world women's hockey championship record for the United States and Switzerland reached the semifinals for the first time in almost a decade Saturday.
Never have players on the Canadian women's hockey team looked forward to the rigours of pre-Olympic preparation more. Olympic team alumni have said the months they lived, trained and played games in Calgary for the Women's World Hockey Championship before a Winter Games were the closest they came to feeling like professional hockey players.
Jamie Lee Rattray – an extra skater when the World Hockey Championship began – made up for Marie Philip-Poulin’s absence and continued her ascent up the lineup, scoring two goals as Canada easily defeated their cross-border rivals 5-1 in Calgary to wrap up group play.
Natalie Spooner is comfortable out of her comfort zone. The veteran forward on Canada's women's hockey team has carved out a public persona outside of hockey tackling international travel racing and figure skating for reality TV.
Dominika Laskova scored twice and the Czech Republic beat Germany 2-0 on Wednesday night in the women's world hockey championship to win Group B and avoid having to face the United States or Canada in the quarterfinals.
Finland won its first game of the Women's World Hockey Championship Wednesday with a 4-0 blanking of Russia. Petra Nieminen scored twice to lead the Finns (1-2).
Canada is off to a flying start at the Women's World Championship in Calgary and are getting contributions from both young and experienced players. Salim Valji has more.
Hilary Knight became the all-time scoring leader in women's world hockey championship history Tuesday with her 45th goal as the United States beat Russia 6-0.
A dearth of international women's hockey is about to be replaced by an abundance of it. Next month, the International Ice Hockey Federation is expected to add a women's world hockey championship to the same calendar year as a Winter Olympics.
Canada improved to 2-0 at the 2021 World Women's Hockey Championship with a 5-1 win over a fatigued Russian team on Sunday night.
Jule Scheifer and Theresa Wagner scored 3:09 apart in the second period to put the game out of reach, and Germany went on to beat Denmark 3-1 on Monday in round-robin action at the women's world hockey championship.
Hilary Knight tied former U.S. star Cammi Granato's record for goals in women's world hockey championship play with 44 in the Americans' 3-0 victory over Finland on Sunday night.
When Sarah Fillier was handed the plain, black game puck to commemorate her first world championship goal for Canada, assistant captain Brianne Jenner borrowed it for a few minutes.
Sarah Fillier scored the game-winner in the third period as Canada rallied to beat Finland 5-3 in their opener at the 2021 World Women's Hockey Championship.
Valeria Pavlova and Viktoria Kulishova scored in 14-second span midway through the second period and Russia opened the women's world hockey championship with a 3-1 victory over Switzerland on Saturday night. Earlier, Nina Christof scored twice in the first period to help Germany beat newcomer Hungary 3-0 in Group B. Julia Zorn also scored and Jennifer Harss made 19 saves.
Brianna Decker and Kendall Coyne Schofield each had a goal and an assist and the nine-time champion United States beat Switzerland 3-0 on Friday night to open the women’s world hockey championship.
Canada's women's hockey team is bent on replicating the success of its soccer counterparts on the world stage.
The puck drops Friday on a women's world hockey championship 859 days after the last one. Who's counting? American forward Kendall Coyne Schofield is, for one.
Three Canadians currently in the NCAA will be making their world championship debut, including Ashton Bell.
Laura Stacey has an impressive resume on her own, with two world championship medals and an Olympic silver, but it also doesn’t hurt that she has a hockey pedigree as the great-granddaughter of Hall of Famer King Clancy.
Kristin O’Neill is one of eight players who will be making their women’s worlds debut for Canada at this month’s IIHF Women’s World Championship.
Despite being only 25, Emily Clark has already put together an impressive resume so far in her career.
Brianne Jenner is one of only five players on the current Team Canada roster who has won a gold medal at the IIHF Women’s World Championship.
There is no doubt Marie-Philip Poulin is Canada’s leader going into the IIHF Women’s World Championship in Calgary.
One of Canada’s brightest young stars on the blue line, Jaime Bourbonnais may only have a handful of games under her belt with the Canadian national team, but her talent has been on display for years.
A year after being denied the opportunity to make her women’s worlds debut because of COVID-19, Victoria Bach is ready to introduce herself at this year’s IIHF Women’s World Championship.
Jocelyne Larocque has been patrolling Canada’s blue line for more than a decade. The two-time Olympic medallist is preparing for her eighth world championship and was part of the Canadian team that last won gold at the women’s worlds in 2012.
While the current United States roster boasts 15 players who won gold at the 2019 women’s worlds, it also features several up-and-coming players, many of whom will be making their world championship debuts later this month at the 2021 tournament in Calgary.
When a player makes her debut with the Canadian women’s hockey team as an 18-year-old, people are going to take notice. Sarah Fillier did exactly that in 2018, and she has marked herself as the future of Canadian hockey.
Despite owning two Olympic medals, forward Mélodie Daoust will be playing in just her second-ever IIHF Women’s World Championship when the tournament kicks off on Aug. 20 in Calgary.
Growing up as a multi-sport athlete in Burlington, Ont., Renata Fast wasn’t sure which sport she wanted to pursue. She had two athletic scholarships offered to her out of high school: one for soccer, one for hockey. Fast landed on hockey and set her sights on representing her country, which she would accomplish a few short years later.
When she made her debut with Canada’s women’s hockey team in 2014, Blayre Turnbull became one of the first two women from Nova Scotia to play for the national team, along with Jill Saulnier.
In the sports world, mental health has increasingly become a bigger priority for athletes. And for the Canadian national women’s hockey team, mental health has been at the forefront as they prepare for the upcoming IIHF Women's World Championship in Calgary.
Natalie Spooner has been one of the most prominent faces in women’s hockey for almost a decade. She is a two-time Olympic medallist, a seven-time world championship medallist, a Clarkson Cup champion, and is currently tied for 15th on Canada’s all-time scoring list.
It’s hard to believe that Sarah Nurse made her debut with Canada’s women’s hockey team just six years ago, as she has ingrained herself within the squad and with Canadian fans.
If NHL players are able to participate at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, Canada will have a two-time Stanley Cup champion behind its bench.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic putting the sporting world on pause in March 2020, some women's sports leagues stepped up and took centre stage as games made their return. One sport that has struggled to sustain momentum in the wake of COVID-19 is women’s hockey and the hope is the IIHF Women's World Championship will be an opportunity to get the game back in the spotlight.
