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CBC Sports’ daily newsletter chats with women’s hockey reporter Karissa Donkin, whose new book Breakaway chronicles the birth of the PWHL. CBC | Sports News
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Edmonton to host Canadian women’s hockey team’s final games before Olympics
The four-game Canada-U.S. Rivalry Series will conclude with games at Rogers Place on Dec. 10 and 13. Canada will open its Olympic tournament against Finland on Feb. 5. CBC | Sports News
Read More »How ex-PWHLer Erica Howe’s hockey experience helped her battle breast cancer
Former PWHL goaltender Erica Howe has now completed active treatment for her cancer with no evidence of disease. Throughout the whole journey — from treatment plans to fundraising and everything in between — she leaned on lessons from her hockey career. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Ed Giacomin, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender and Rangers legend, dead at 86
Eddie Giacomin, a Hockey Hall of Fame goalie and one of the faces of the New York Rangers’ franchise in the 1960s and 1970s, has died. He was 86. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘The best defender in the world’: Inside the rise of women’s hockey superstar Renata Fast
The Sceptres star defender is likely to lead the Canadian women’s hockey team’s blue line at the Milan-Cortina Olympics in February. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Players acquitted in Hockey Canada sex assault trial can play NHL games starting Dec. 1
The five players acquitted in the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial can return to the NHL when their suspensions end on Dec. 1, the NHL announced Thursday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »NHL says status of players found not guilty in Hockey Canada scandal expected in ‘near future’
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he expects a decision soon on the status of five former Hockey Canada players acquitted at trial in a high-profile sexual assault case. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Tributes pour in for hockey legend, former politician and author Ken Dryden
Tributes are pouring in from across Canada and beyond after former Montreal Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden — a legend of Canadian hockey — died at the age of 78. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Westlake comes out of Para hockey retirement, seeks 6th Paralympic Games
A man who knows what it takes to win a Paralympic hockey gold in Italy has come out of retirement hoping to help Canada do it again. Five-time Paralympian Greg Westlake of Oakville, Ont., spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach of the Canadian Para hockey team. CBC | Sports News
Read More »As women’s hockey grows, Nova Scotia’s Mae Batherson aims to grow with it
Mae Batherson is motivated more than ever coming off a rookie season that saw her Minnesota Frost win their second consecutive Professional Women’s Hockey League championship. CBC | Sports News
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