YES YES YES

krysti's dumb hockey sideblog. follows back from @wiimpods.

[medievalthymes]

side eyeing everyone who has an nhl twitter/blog but isn’t hyping up the pwhl right now. like get on that immediately please

[medievalthymes]

like this is so important yet yall keep hyping up the most basic hockey guys I have ever seen. please for the love of god support women’s hockey and help ensure these women can keep going.

[medievalthymes]

IT’S QUEER WOMEN ON ICE!!! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!!!

[medievalthymes]

recap for those who don’t know/weren’t aware WHY this league is so important and why we should support it — this is the first season of the professional women’s hockey league (pwhl) in which these female athletes (olympians, former u18, and college stars, ect) are being properly compensated for their skills — AKA making enough to not have to work two jobs while also playing hockey — it’s not millions but it’s enough — starting at 35k, average at about 55k, and each team will carry a minimum six players signed to three-year contracts paying them $80,000 annually. The highest salary is rumoured to be at 120k. The league already has a collective bargaining agreement as well that covers the next eight years. There have been successful women’s hockey leagues in the past, but none began with the kind of staying power this one has.

it has 6 teams

Toronto

Boston

Minnesota

Ottawa

Montreal

New York

The first season began on Jan. 1, 2024, with each team playing a 24-game schedule, 12 games at home and 12 away. All games are be streamed FOR FREE on the pwhl’s youtube channel. In Canada you can also catch the games on sportsnet, cbc, and tsn depending on the day. Link to the schedule.

This is so big for not only women’s hockey, but women’s sports in general. This league was crafted together as a labour of love by women’s hockey alumni like Jayna Hefford and other female athletes such as Billie Jean King. People who love the sport, and women’s sports in general and want to see it develop and succeed so little girls can have a dream and goal of playing professionally like boys do.

support this league. It’s our best shot

[xiaq]

Reblogging again for the above. Go watch some games!! Support the league!! The schedule is here.

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The captain’s legs are just breaking the internet right now.

NHL Players Take On The Barstool Classic With Frankie Borrelli.

[pyotrkochetkov]

ISLES GOING TO THE FINAL 4 BUT IT’S T*MPA AGAIN

[gabelandeskog]

bruins @ islanders - round 2, game 4 | 06.05.21

[islesnucks]

as playoffs start a little reminder

[barzzal]

now we know who’s the fun parent BUF @ NYI 07 MARCH 21

[sorokie-deactivated20260714]

i think we all can agree that this is the highlight of today’s game

[barzzal]

me watching the isles for the rest of this szn:

[barzzal]

4-0 SHUTOUT NYI vs NYR | 1.14.21

[anxsity]

you're laughing. zdeno chara is now a washington capital and you're laughing.

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Can we get a logo change tho or nah?

[burkymakar]

[winnipegpatty]

hockey is still not for everyone

putting this under a cut cus it’s going to be long.

Keep reading

[bjugstad27]

on racism in hockey

Readings:

Hockey is not for Everyone - Akim Aliu

Silence is Violence - Mark Fraser  

Joel Ward on What the Hockey Diversity Alliance Can Accomplish - Mike Johnston 

Sarah Nurse Urges Fellow Canadians Not to Suppress Our Black History - Thomas Ketko 

NHL Exec. Kim Davis on Racism in Hockey and Growing the Game - Jerry Bembry 

NHL Needs Action, Not Words, on Racial Injustice - Greg Wyshynski

Kevin Weekes: NHL Needs to Get Real About Inequality - Emily Kaplan

For NHL, the Battle to Eradicate Racism in the Sport Continues -Helene Elliot 

Anthony Duclair’s Protest, Racism in Minor Hockey, and More - Brandon Maki

Jospeh Opens Up About Racism, Protests 

‘What the Hell are You Doing Here?’ A Conversation With Black Hockey Fans - Mark Lazerus 

Evander Kane on White NHLers Addressing Racism: We Need ‘Strength in Numbers’ - Ryan S Clark 

Why White NHLers are Calling out Racism Now: ‘Hit Me So Deep That I Was Angry’ - Ryan S Clark 

We Need to be Loud, We need to be Unflinching - Erik Gudbranson

‘It Can’t Just be Their Fight’: Why Blake Wheeler is Speaking out Against Racism - Murat Ates 

Rethinking Canada Through Indigenous Hockey - McKegney and Auksi

Videos: 

How Racism in Hockey Affects Indigenous Communities 

How Racism Affects Hockey Culture 

Iginla on Racism in Hockey

A Roundtable on Racism with NHL Players  

Black Ice: African-Canadians and Hockey  

Soul on Ice: Past, Present, and Future  

Akim Aliu Sits Down For A One-On-One With Ron MacLean 

Ryan Reaves Talks About Hockey in the Black Community 

Is Hockey Having a Moment of Reckoning? 

The Conversation: Improving Representation And Shedding Bias In Hockey & The NHL 

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Articles:

Hockey Is For Everyone, Or Is It? - Nicole Giordano with R. Renee Hess

As hockey confronts its racism problem, why have so many NHL players remained silent? - Hemal Jhaveri

Everything wrong with the New York Islanders statement on George Floyd - Hemal Jhaveri

Nihilism and White Bliss in America’s Most Livable City; On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell - Casey Taylor

Here’s what happens when you proclaim “Black Lives Matter” in the whitest sport in America - Rebecca Renee Hess

Only the puck was black: a story of race and the NHL - Gilman W. Whiting

The significance of a Stanley Cup champion named Devante - Clinton Yates

Current and former NHLers are calling for greater transparency as the GTHL keeps secret its data on penalties called for discriminatory slurs - Rick Westhead

NHL20 has a racism problem, and EA needs to address it -  Jeff Veillette

Kevin Weekes: NHL needs to get real about racial inequality - Emily Kaplan

BLACK HOCKEY ROUNDTABLE: TALKING RACISM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE SPORT with David Amber, Blake Bolden, Grant Fuhr, Kwame Mason, and Sarah Nurse - Matt Larkin

Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey

‘We are gathered. We are here.’ Welcome to Black Girl Hockey Club - Kim Brunhuber

Books: 

Black Ice: The Val James Story - Valmore James & John Gallagher

Videos:

A critical look at social justice in women’s hockey, past, present, & future - Erica L. Ayala 

PART ONE: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

PART TWO: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

New episode of Social Justice in Women’s Hockey by Erica L. Ayala premieres Wednesday, June 9, 2020 at 8:30 pm ET with Saroya Tinker discusses “white gaze” and racism in Canada

A BGHC Community Event: Renee Hess and Saroya Tinker talk race, hockey and BLM

Podcasts:

Redvolution Rampage: The Color of Hockey with Hockey Coach Derrick Henderson, Ayo Adeniye, Malcolm Hayes, and Darius Kirksey

Bardown Beauties: #Sticktosports - Guest Erica L. Ayala

The End of Sport: Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri

TXHT: A Conversation with Saroya Tinker

Japers’ Rink Radio: Hockey Must Do Better with Marie Smith & Chris Watkins

Further Education & Involvement: 

Anti-Racism in Sports Resources Google Doc

FOLLOW BLACK GIRL HOCKEY CLUB

[nyisles]

dont give me any h*pe .......

[prettyboybarzal]

zeeker’s out for the rest of the playoffs and i’m not dealing w it well

[jakeoettinger]

he said what he said! 

[erikkarlsson]

scottyyyyy! | nyi vs phi - game 7