The Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) is continually making strides to close the gap between them and their male counterparts. For the first time since coming into their existence, the PWHPA will stream stops on their Dream Gap Tour for the 2019-2020 season through the ESPN App, ESPN.com, and Monumental Sports Network in Washington,…
The PWHPA will venture outside of North America for the first time in just a few weeks. The PWHPA announced a three-game series against the Japanese National Women’s Hockey team on Tuesday. The games will take place on Wednesday, March 4th, Thursday, March 5th and Saturday, March 7th. All three games will take place at…
Game Three of the Rivalry Series between the United States and Canada took place Monday night in Victoria, British Columbia. Just like with the 2020 World Junior Hockey Championships, Canada got the game-winning goal from an unsung hero. Victoria Bach scored the game-winner in overtime to lift Canada past the United States by a score…
The Arizona Coyotes are the latest NHL team to support the mission of the PWHPA and the ‘Dream Gap Tour’. On Thursday, the PWHPA and Coyotes jointly announced that a showcase event will head to Tempe from March 6-8. Full rosters have yet to be announced, but a number of star players have already been…
The momentum started Wednesday night during the ECHL All-Star Classic and carried over into NHL All-Star Weekend in St. Louis. The PWHPA sent 20 of its best players from the United States and Canada to compete in a 3-on-3 game on the biggest stage. It was a friendly rivalry game between the US and Canada that…
Tonight, the NHL will kick off the on-ice portion of their annual All-Star weekend in St. Louis. The NHL All-Star Skills Challenge will be live on NBCSN in the Untied States and Sportsnet/CBC in Canada. The annual competition will have a different twist this season, as an elite women’s three-on-three game takes the spotlight. The…
It was a successful night in Wichita, Kansas as the ECHL held its annual All-Star Game. This year there was a little wrinkle as four members of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association participated in the event. They fit in perfectly and showed they can run with the men any day of the week. Granted,…
What do you get when you give six Ryerson Radio and Television Arts students a chance to create documentary over a summer and fall? They create with The Dream Gap, that’s what you get. On January 11th at the Paradise Theatre in Toronto, Ailish Forfar, Camryn Kern, Will Jurczynski, Max Lewis, Sarah Owen and Laura…
Gigi Marvin first saw women’s hockey on TV in 1998. It was during the Winter Olympics, where the United States would win a Gold Medal. No one on that Gold Medal winning team realized it in that exact moment, but they set in motion the dreams of countless girls around the country. The dream of…
Next Friday night will be an extremely exciting one for women’s hockey. As part of NHL All-Star Weekend in St. Louis, an elite women’s three-on-three game will take place during the NHL Skills Competition. The 20-minute game will be played between Team America and Team Canada. The rosters, coaches and format for the contest were…