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Fisher Stones Stars In Shoot-Out
by The First Line
posted January 18, 2011 at 8:57pm

Montreal was sent to its second loss of the year on Saturday due to a spectacular shoot-out performance by goalie Kendra Fisher. Fisher and Kim St. Pierre were equally solid during regulation, each allowing only two goals in a barrage of shots (Fisher s...more

Poll Position: Minnesota On The Move
by The First Line
posted January 17, 2011 at 7:36pm

We should see some shuffling in the D-I polls this week, as the Golden Gophers swept bitter in-state rival UMD with a 3-0 blanking on Saturday. Noora Raty sits tied for first in the country in save percentage and second in the country in GAA, and she’...more

Wickenheiser Counterpoint: Maybe Fairness Isn’t The Issue
by The First Line
posted January 16, 2011 at 6:08pm

So I realized that yesterday I’d written two posts in which I was really concerned with whether quality of competition was fair. But as a commenter over at Women Talk Sports pointed out, there may be positives that outweigh that particular problem. ...more

How is Hayley Wickenheiser playing college hockey?
by The First Line
posted January 15, 2011 at 2:48pm

It seems she just never went to school the first time around what with all the national team duty. Did you know that she was at the Flyers rookie camp in ’98 and ’99? Unbelievable. More power to her for going back to get a degree, but it seems...more

Women's College Hockey: BU squeaks by diminished Friars
by The First Line
posted January 10, 2011 at 4:22pm

What’s impressive about this game from a Providence standpoint was that they almost won it on the road, even though they had to use two goalies and neither was Lacasse. They managed to keep Poulin from scoring a goal, and they killed four BU penalties...more

Women's Hockey: US Beats Canada For U-18 World Championship
by The First Line
posted January 10, 2011 at 1:25pm

I saved this as a draft when I meant to post it. I suppose that’s symptomatic of my recovery from hell week at work, which has kept me from hockey and which I am only slowly getting back from. The youth movement is in full swing for both nations, but...more

Canada U-22 hockey team destroys field In MLP Cup
by The First Line
posted January 9, 2011 at 2:18pm

At this point, any tournament with only one of the big two is going to be a foregone conclusion. Canada’s U-22 team won the gold medal game 6-0 over Sweden, with goals from six different players and four points from Mercyhurst’s Bailey Bram. Genev...more

Hockey: Take Advantage of the Big Shot
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted January 7, 2011 at 1:39pm

Now that the holiday season is over, it is officially crunch time. The start of the New Year signals a fundamental switch in the mindset of players, parents and coaches. Our intensity and focus should be going through the roof. I can feel it every tim...more

Princeton Gains Momentum, Maine Takes Advantage
by The First Line
posted January 5, 2011 at 8:50pm

In a couple of weekday games, a few intriguing results from the ECAC and Hockey East. Princeton built on its win over ranked BC by blanking Quinnipiac, pulling it into third in the conference, just one point behind the Bobcats. Rachel Weber picked up ...more

Wisconsin Makes It 7-0 Against ‘Hurst
by The First Line
posted January 3, 2011 at 4:58pm

Although you have to hand it to the Lakers, they could have folded like a house of cards after giving up a goal to end the first and two more at the start of the second. Instead they took a time out, got themselves together, and tied the game before Wis...more

Moxie, class and the Stanley Cup
by Byline to Finish Line
posted January 3, 2011 at 2:10pm

One of the occupational hazards of being a sportswriter is jadedness. It goes with the cynical territory that newspapermen and newspaperwomen have honed through the years. We tend to wear it like a badge of honor. It’s part of the cultural history along...more

Canada's Second Favourite Hockey : Field Hockey
by alilee05
posted January 3, 2011 at 9:54am

With the title "the first field hockey sports blogger for WTS," I feel the necessity to update everyone on field hockey. Since the sport is not as well-known in Canada, I can only assume it is also not as popular in the USA. So, we're going to touch basis...more

Canada Makes Changes In U-22 Lineup
by The First Line
posted January 1, 2011 at 11:24pm

Players who served on the senior national team prior to the Four Nations Cup are not eligible for the upcoming MLP tournament, which means Canada lost Johnston, Poulin, Jenner, and Wakefield from the U-22 team which swept a series with the U.S. in August....more

Should Women’s Hockey Be An Olympic Sport?
by The First Line
posted December 31, 2010 at 3:47pm

Got your attention there, didn’t I? The debate has been re-ignited by some of the schnidings being handed out by Canada at the men’s World Junior Championship this week. Many fans of the women’s game are pointing out, quite reasonably, that if s...more

It Could *Rain* At the Winter Classic?
by The First Line
posted December 30, 2010 at 3:59pm

We had our first women’s hockey snow-out of Boxing Day Blizzard 2010 when Vermont-Dartmouth got postponed until January 18th, and now they’re predicting drizzles for Pittsburgh on New Year’s Day? This climate change nonsense has got to stop. Wha...more

Women in midlife taking to the ice
by The First Line
posted December 30, 2010 at 9:51am

Here’s a great Times piece about participation in hockey among women who were formerly on the sidelines. Love the “Mom’s obsessed” complaint from a daughter. Note how late ice time for women tends to be, which is a major discouraging factor. ...more

Women who highlighted my 2010
by alilee05
posted December 29, 2010 at 11:46pm

Please add your comments at the bottom of this post or else re-tweet this page with the hash tags: #WomenTalkSports Thanks for your support on my first blog post. Here are my favourites in no particular order: Luciana Aymar Known as “the magi...more

Rebecca Johnston is Ithaca Female Athlete of the Year
by The First Line
posted December 29, 2010 at 1:40pm

Ithaca, NY is the home of Cornell, in case you were wondering what ancient Greece had to do with anything. Rebecca Johnston had a magical season during her year off from the Big Red, winning Olympic Gold and skating on the best line for Canada at the Fo...more

Tidings Of Comfort
by The First Line
posted December 26, 2010 at 5:24pm

It appears that Mandi Schwartz’s cancer has returned. This world just sucks some days. If you would like to write to Mandi Schwartz with messages of encouragement, Sports Illustrated‘s Peter King has provided an address: Mandi Schwartz Box 308 Wilco...more

The U.S. Hockey U-18 National Team Roster
by The First Line
posted December 26, 2010 at 1:59pm

You know, I had a whole post written (twice) about my struggles to locate the U-18 national team roster on the USA Hockey website. There were apologies for my obtuseness. There were retractions of those apologies. And in the end, I erased the post a...more

Collegiate Hockey: the 2nd Half Starts Wednesday, Thank Goodness
by The First Line
posted December 26, 2010 at 1:58pm

There has been quite enough time without women’s college hockey. Things kick off between Darmouth and the best 2-8 team in the NCAA, Vermont, which continues to challenge the NCAA record for ties. OK, I made that up, but 8 ties already? Then on New ...more

Why I love women’s hockey blogging, Part I
by The First Line
posted December 24, 2010 at 2:24pm

I should probably have waited for my hundredth post or some other special occasion to do this, but it’s always timely to talk about why you enjoy your avocation. There are several women’s sports in the United States that have reached the kind of par...more

HBO's Pens/Caps 24-7: Learning the wrong lessons from history
by The First Line
posted December 23, 2010 at 6:26pm

I hear the new episode of Pens/Caps 24-7 is causing a lot of comment, but I want to double back for a moment to episode 1, because it was really compelling, and yet it also encapsulated a lot of what’s wrong with taking an ‘intuitive’ approach to sp...more

“Darn, I knew we forgot something”
by The First Line
posted December 21, 2010 at 6:31pm

“A junior team. Did we form a junior team this year?” USA Hockey might want to think about giving us some news from its training camp for the upcoming U-18 World Championship in Sweden. Wait, you say there is no training camp for an event that s...more

Tis The Season For A Feel Good Story: Teddy Bear Toss Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted December 21, 2010 at 9:45am

You wouldn’t think a team with the moniker of “Hitmen” would be big on charity, but you’d be wrong. The Western Hockey League’s Calgary Hitmen held their annual Teddy Bear Toss earlier this month and collected over 23,000 Teddy bears that were l...more

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