#womens-hockey

#womens-hockey

Hockey homes are like this, as hockey parents are prone to share in great detail. But what makes this home in Cleveland Heights different is that an Olympian lives here. Wait, scratch that. What makes this home truly unique is that the Olympian who lives here is the first Black woman to play for the U.S. women's national hockey team and the first Black woman who will play hockey for Team USA at the Olympics.

Bundle up! The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are just around the corner, and there are a number of LGBTQ+ Olympic stars we'll be cheering on. The Winter Games, running from 6 to 22 February, are taking place in Italy. Hosted jointly by the cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, athletes will be descending on Northern Italy to compete. LGBTQ+ athletes will be arriving in the snowy region with the hopes of making their countries proud, and maybe bringing home a gold medal.

Expansion teams are usually bad because they're contingent on being bad. For narrowing the other teams' slices of the revenue pie, they can join the league only at a high cost and at some competitive disadvantage. If they do fashion something workable from everyone's leftovers, a la the Valkyries or Golden Knights, good for them, but that success wouldn't be by design.

The Boston Fleet have strengthened their roster significantly by acquiring key players while some previous team members have moved to other teams.