The Manitoba NRL athletes showed they care. On May 9 at Southdale Arena, the Winnipeg Prairie Fire and the Manitoba Jets played a benefit game in aid of a young ringette player who needs to travel to Edmonton for life saving heart surgery.…
There are ten teams going to the NRL Championships, and I am pretty sure that if I think one thing about each of them, that will add up to ten. Convenient! …
1. I think that home ice advantage in the eastern playoffs is a giant deal. In the East, the home team won each and every best of three series in each of the two years that the east has used this format. …
1. I think that Jenn Wakefield likes the crisp prairie air in Saskatoon. In three games this weekend in Saskatoon, Wakefield scored ten goals. One game was decided by three goals, the other two by one goal - nothing happened in "garbage time" for Wakefield and the Fraser Valley Avalanche. The other player close to Wakefield for scoring this weekend? Saskatoon Wild's Salla Kyhala scored nine times over the weekend as her Wild took 2 of 3 from the Avalanche.…
1. I think it was a tough night for the Saskatoon Wild back on February 13. Facing the visiting Calgary RATH, the Wild were decimated by former teammates Loretta Giocoli and Sjaane Beattie. Giocoli got one goal and one assist and Beattie notched two goals along with one assist. Together they led the way for the RATH in the 7-4 victory. To their credit, the Wild exacted some revenge on their former mates with an incredible second half in their next game. The Wild scored six times to force the game to a shooutout where they claimed a 7-6 victory.…
This weekend, the Frank Robinson and Isabelle et Paul Duchesnay arenas of Gatineau with be filled with some of the best ringette players in the country. Everyone is invited to come and encourage the teams as they meet for the 2010 edition of the Eastern Confrontation.…
February is an exciting time for the city of Vancouver, with the 2010 Olympic Winter Games being welcomed to the city. For Fraser Valley Avalanche captain, Jill Lange, the Games will be an exciting adventure she's been anticipating for a long time.…
With just over eight weeks left until the NRL Championship game, competition is tight and teams have their sights focused squarely on making it to Saskatoon. Here are the "Ten Things" we've been thinking about. …
Investing in girls is key to eliminating poverty and creating a better world. Imagine not being able to go to school simply because you are a girl. This is the reality for about 20 million girls around the world and is something we take for granted.…
January has seen many exciting match-ups and the race to the NRL Championship in Saskatoon is tight. Here's our round-up of "Ten Things" for the end of January. …
It's a new year and with that comes our first 2010 edition of "10 Things".…
December 16, 2009 - Here's our 'almost Christmas' version of "10 Things". Our next edition will drop first thing in the new year.…
December 1, 2009 - Version 4 of "10 Things".... I hope we are actually getting half-decent at this:…
November 16, 2009 - Here goes our third installment of our bi-weekly overview of the past weekend's games and events around the league:…
November 3, 2009 - Here goes our second installment of our bi-weekly overview of the past weekend's games and events around the league…
A game between neighbouring Ottawa Ice and Gloucester Devils NRL teams is guaranteed to be intense and exciting match-up. This season, the two rivals will come together to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Thousands of Canadians are touched by breast cancer each year. It not only impacts individuals living with the disease, but their families, friends and loved ones. The game on November 29th, 2009 hopes to raise awareness and to pay tribute to those affected by the disease.…
During this year's National Ringette League season, we will be bringing you a bi-weekly (or close to it) overview of the past weekend's games and events around the league. Since Peter King of www.si.com has pretty much perfected the post weekend wrap up (for the NFL) we are going to use his format, hopefully without too much objection from him. …
The National Ringette League championship tournament will take place from April 7-11 in Charlottetown, PEI. The tournament is part of the 2009 Canadian Ringette Championships, which will see twenty-seven teams from across the country compete in three divisions.…
The Manitoba Ringette Association staged its annual Showcase game at the MTS Centre on Saturday December 13. A crowd of 750 young ringette players and their parents were treated to an entertaining ringette game by the best ringette players in Manitoba.…
In today’s specialized world it is becoming more and more difficult for athletes to maintain a high level of performance in more than one sport. To excel at the highest level requires year-round training in that sport, as well as exceptional athletic ability. …
