Bill Atwood

The first period of the Huron-Perth Lakers U18 AAA game had just ended, and Ian Waugh was ready to put his foot down. While anyone who heard Waugh bark out the call – an unsportsmanlike penalty against Laker Casen De Graaf for shooting the puck at the Brantford 99ers’ net after the buzzer – could easily assume he wasn’t too happy, it was really just part of a typical November Saturday for the young official.

“I was aware of it, but it seems hard to fathom that it was that long ago,” says Graham Snyder as he reflects on the 20th anniversary of the car accident that claimed the life of his son, Atlanta Thrashers player Dan Snyder. Today (October 5) officially marks 20 years since Dan passed away following a collision six days earlier.

It was still the first period of the first game in Team Canada’s three-game series against the United States when the punches started flying. It wasn’t a full fight, but Tyler McGregor was there to make a statement. “We’ve been on the wrong side of many of the games and in tournaments against them in recent past,” said McGregor, who has played forward for Canada’s para hockey team for the last 10 years and was named captain in 2019. McGregor received a roughing minor.

Diane Jones Konihowski was once considered one of the top pentathlon athletes in the world. However, she lost out on her best chance for an Olympic medal when Canada boycotted the 1980 Summer Games held in the former Soviet Union.

As chair of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre at the University of Calgary, Carolyn Emery’s research has led to policy changes at athletic organizations, including the banning of body checking in peewee hockey across Canada. However, Emery, who is currently working on studies with both Football Canada and the NFL, believes even more changes are needed in youth sports.

Several members of the Calgary Inferno say they remain confident about the future of professional women’s hockey in Calgary despite Sunday’s announcement by the CWHL that it will cease operations on May. 1.“We were obviously really completely surprised and disappointed at the news,” said Inferno’s forward Dakota Woodworth at a Monday morning news conference at WinSport arena.“Y

Recently, there has been major emphasis on the tracking, prevention and treatment of concussions in professional sports. Likewise, U Sports Canada — the body that governs university sports in Canada — has taken some steps to protect its athletes. However, it isn’t currently tracking concussions or providing the information needed to judge if those steps are effective, due to what U Sports president Graham Brown says are privacy concerns. The importance of such measures has been highlighted ove