Divide in women's professional hockey remains unbridgeable despite growth in North America
Women's professional hockey is expanding in North America, but remains divided.
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Women's professional hockey is expanding in North America, but remains divided.
PHILADELPHIA — The Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association that includes national team players from Canada and the United States opens its season Oct. 14.
Olympic champions Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Amanda Kessel and Maddie Rooney headline the U.S. roster for the world women’s hockey championship that starts Aug. 25 in Denmark.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The United States women's national hockey team, which will feature 18 returning Olympians, took the ice for the first time Sunday to prepare for the world championships without new coach John Wroblewski, who tested positive for COVID-19.
USA Hockey on Sunday announced the 23-player roster for the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Championship later this month. The team is headlined by four-time Olympic medalist Hilary Knight, who will make her 12th appearance at a women’s world championship (a USA Hockey record), and three-time Olympic medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield, who will compete at her ninth Worlds.
An Olympic gold medal wasn't on the line this time for Marie-Philip Poulin, who added another clutch goal against the United States by scoring 2:13 into overtime in Canada's 4-3 win in a "Rivalry Rematch" on Saturday.
In a historic first, the U.S. and Canadian women’s hockey teams will play a post-Olympics “rematch” on Saturday, March 12 at 4 p.m. ET.
Less than a month after clashing for Olympic women's hockey gold in Beijing, players on the Canadian and U.S. teams will meet again in a Professional Women's Hockey Players Association game in Pittsburgh.