Hockey
The Rundown
March 19, 2024February 15: Caitlin Clark sets NCAA women’s all-time scoring record Clark scored 49 points in the Iowa Hawkeyes’ 106–89 defeat of the Michigan Wolverines. She took less than three minutes to score the eight points needed to surpass Kelsey Plum’s previously-held record of 3,527 points. Clark’s records continued throughout February, as on the 28, she surpassed Lynette Woodward’s longstanding major-college women’s basketball points record of 3,649 — scoring her 3,650th point in Iowa’s 108–60 triumph over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. A day later, Clark announced her intention to enter the 2024 Women’s National Basketball Association draft, making this the last…
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Black excellence in sports as told through media
February 15, 2024Content warning: anti-Black racism and enslavement. Films and Documentaries Remember the Titans (2000) Where to watch: Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ Based on a true story in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, Black football coach Herman Boone sets out to…
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Czechia sent back-to-back champion Canada home early from World Junior Championship
February 1, 2024Team Canada made an earlier than expected exit from the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championships, hosted from December 26–January 5 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Canada finished second in the Group A standings during the preliminaries — suffering their only loss to…
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Connect the Lingo
February 1, 2024________ league was a baseball term used to refer to minor league baseball teams in rural towns, but is more often used to describe a lack of professional standards and etiquette. A goalie in hockey is given a _________ cheer…
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Top 10 Canadian sports moments of 2023
January 7, 2024January 5: Canada wins World Junior gold, Bedard MVP Arizona Coyote prospect Dylan Guenther lifts Canada to a 3–2 victory in OT against Czechia to win gold at the World Junior Hockey Championship. 17-year-old Connor Bedard of North Vancouver was…
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Parents at games are too much
March 14, 2023I’ve never seen as many physical altercations as I have at a children’s hockey game. You would think parents would be supportive of their children, perhaps even a bit concerned for their safety when they’re skating on blades. But no,…
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The history of the Coloured Hockey League
March 3, 2023There’s hardly a Canadian who hasn’t heard of the National Hockey League (NHL) at least once in their life. Hockey, the official winter sport of Canada, has been popular across the country since its inception in the late 1800’s. As…
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Connect the Lingo
February 1, 2023Word Bank: 20, bullet, pick six, pommel horse, Christine Sinclair, skeleton, Peter Forsberg, football, 10, kiss and cry This athlete holds the record for most international goals. What sport is known as a “game of inches?” There are typically ______…
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Memorable Moments: Canada wins gold at home
January 9, 2023Do you know where you were during the golden goal? 16.7 million people do. February 28, 2010. It’s the 2010 Winter Olympics, hosted in Vancouver. Canada and the US are deadlocked at two in the gold medal game. Two hours…
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Stop shaming women for liking sports
November 2, 2022I was called a cougar this past weekend by a group of men at a hockey rink. Yes, a group of fully-grown men who clearly lack any semblance of human decency or respect for women. Let me paint the scene.…
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