A BFL Female Coach of the Year, Stéphanie Grenier is guiding her three daughters – and hundreds of other girls in the AHFVG – through their minor hockey journeys The focus for Stéphanie Grenier has always been on getting more girls involved in hockey. The mother of three has worn multiple hats for the Association hockey féminin vallée de Gatineau …

Ève Gascon is a champion in her community, even when there’s no hockey to be played Ève Gascon is a trailblazer. In 2018, she became the first woman to be a full-time goaltender in the Ligue de hockey midget AAA du Québec, appearing in 18 games with the Phénix du Collège Esther-Blondin. In 2019, the Collège Français de Longueuil selected …

Haley Irwin and Jocelyne Larocque took their coach education to the next level this summer, taking part in the Hockey Canada Skills Coach Seminar Haley Irwin officially announced her retirement from Canada’s National Women’s Team on June 3, but the two-time Olympic gold medallist is far from done with Hockey Canada. In early July, Irwin joined long-time teammate Jocelyne Larocque …

NHLPA, NHL, Bauer Hockey & Hockey Canada launch Hockey Equipment Relief Program to help families most impacted by COVID-19 TORONTO, Ont. – The National Hockey League (NHL®), the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA), Bauer Hockey and Hockey Canada today launched a Hockey Equipment Relief Program. As communities begin to re-open and kids look to re-engage in sports, this program …

Undrafted in the WHL, Gage Goncalves instead forged his own path in the game and worked his way to Canada’s National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp Peyton Krebs, Bowen Byram, Matthew Robertson, Taylor Gauthier, Braden Schneider and Dylan Cozens were all first-round picks in the 2016 WHL Bantam Draft. Gage Goncalves wasn’t picked at all. Byram, Cozens, Krebs, …

A BFL Female Coach of the Year recipient for her work on and off the ice in Torbay, N.L., Callie Langmead operates with one goal in mind: get more girls into the game Callie Langmead’s passion for coaching comes from personal experience. Growing up in Flatrock, N.L., Langmead played hockey with the boys because there wasn’t a girls’ team. Over …

Hockey Canada introduced mandatory diversity and inclusion training for its athletes and staff, with an eye towards its commitment to making a difference in Canada’s game More than a week later, there’s one singular sentence that sticks with Sarah Nurse. “Diversity is who’s on the team, but inclusion is who gets to play.” The National Women’s Team forward was one …

Nolan Lalonde and Chris Droulis are proof that hockey can bring people together, no matter how different they are Nolan Lalonde and Chris Droulis are like a lot of friends these days. They chat daily on FaceTime. They go for walks and jogs and work out together. They simply hang out. But the relationship that Lalonde and Droulis have is …

From Dominion City, Strathclair, Clavet or Ardrossan, every small town has a road that leads to Team Canada “We’ve got a golf course and a pool. We have a rink, but it’s only open in the winter. We’ve got stop signs and paved roads, but not even close to anything like a traffic light or anything like that.” The fact …

CALGARY, Alta. – Hockey Canada has announced the addition of defencemen Lukas Cormier (Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, N.B./Charlottetown, QMJHL),  Daemon Hunt (Brandon, Man./Moose Jaw, WHL), Mason Millman (London, Ont./Saginaw, OHL) and Owen Power (Mississauga, Ont./Chicago, USHL), and forward Gage Goncalves (Mission, B.C./Everett, WHL) to the roster for Canada’s National Junior Team Sport Chek Summer Development Camp, set for July 27-31. Cormier recorded six …