Hockey

front cover of Kobe Bryant’s autobiography
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Black excellence in sports as told through media

Peak Web February 15, 2024

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Content 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 integrate two high school football teams with fellow coach Bill Yoast. Along the way to finals, the Titans face racial prejudice. The team is discriminated against and seen as unworthy among other teams due to being interracial after many civil rights battles for Black Americans throughout the 1960s. Despite the backlash, they remain at the…

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Czechia player on their backhand driving to the Canadian net.
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Czechia sent back-to-back champion Canada home early from World Junior Championship

Peak Web February 1, 2024

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Team 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 —…

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Connect the Lingo

Peak Web February 1, 2024

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer ________ 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…

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Team Canada basketball member Dillon Brooks celebrating with the Canadian flag after a game.
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Top 10 Canadian sports moments of 2023

Peak Web January 7, 2024

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer January 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…

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Illustration of a person in a sea of screaming parents on the bleachers.
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Parents at games are too much

Peak Web March 14, 2023

By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor I’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…

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photo of two players taking a faceoff.
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The history of the Coloured Hockey League

Peak Web March 3, 2023

By: Simran Sarai, Sports Writer There’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…

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Connect the Lingo

Peak Web February 1, 2023

By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer Word 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…

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photo of people celebrating a goal from their couch.
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Memorable Moments: Canada wins gold at home

Peak Web January 9, 2023

By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Do 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…

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Stop shaming women for liking sports

Peak Web November 2, 2022

By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor I 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.…

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illustration of a girl with long brown curly hair and bangs sitting amazed amongst a crowd at a hockey game.
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How I fell in love with hockey

Peak Web October 23, 2022

By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor I didn’t fall in love with hockey until I was 13. It was a couple months after the 2016 National Hockey League (NHL) draft, and the Toronto Maple Leafs number one pick, Auston Matthews, was…

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