
Breaking Down Barriers
BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS will showcase individuals and organizations who are committed to changing hockey culture. Each episode will spotlight and celebrate those who are committed to fostering positive social change within the sport from professional to minor hockey levels.
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12 episodes
- 1. Breaking Hockey's Glass CeilingHockey is the last of the major professional sports to see the inclusion of women in all roles. But in the last few years progress has been made...Women have started to break hockey's glass ceiling, emerging as NHL executives and rising through the coaching, officiating and management ranks.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 2. Indigenous Sports Academy- The Story of Courage BearCourage Bear is the founding director of the first and only Indigenous hockey academy in North America.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 3. Girls Hockey in the NorthIn this episode, viewers travel to Canada's far North to meet the Kuugaruk Dynamite Girls Hockey Team.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 4. Changing Hockey CultureLuke Prokop is fighting back stereotypes as the NHL’s first openly gay player.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 5. Canadian Blind HockeyCanadian Blind Hockey is changing the lives of children and adults by working to ensure everyone has access.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 6. Seaside Hockey-The Story of Kirk BrooksKirk Brooks is a man who has mentored young black hockey players in Toronto for over 30 years.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 7. A New Era of Women’s HockeyA new women’s professional hockey league-the PWHL- will begin competing in North America in January 2024.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 8. Behind the BenchLast season Jessica Campbell became the first female assistant coach in the AHL with the Coachella Valley Firebirds.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 9. TrailblazerIn 2020 Kim St-Pierre became the first female goalie inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 10. Camp of DreamsEvery summer, Vancouver Canucks Defenceman Ethan Bear returns to Ochapowace Nation, Saskatchewan to run his annual summer hockey camp.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 11. Straz StrongAfter the tragic Humboldt bus crash ended Ryan Straschnitzki’s stand up career, he switched his focus to sledge hockey.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
- 12. A Season in ReviewDuring season 1 we had the opportunity to meet and tell the stories of individuals and organizations devoted to changing hockey culture.CC22minFeb 22, 2024
Breaking Down Barriers
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BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS will showcase individuals and organizations who are committed to changing hockey culture. Each episode will spotlight and celebrate those who are committed to fostering positive social change within the sport from professional to minor hockey levels.
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