Heartbroken from Team Canada’s loss to the U.S. at the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, Laura Stacey found solace in a pickup game of street hockey. And then she found purpose.

That pickup game sparked an annual road hockey tournament fundraiser that not incidentally celebrates the growing success of professional women’s hockey.

“I think giving young girls that opportunity to dream that opportunity, to see what they can become is pretty special,” said Stacey, the great-granddaughter of hockey Hall of Famer King Clancy . She joined the Montréal Victoire of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) in 2024. (She also brought home gold with Team Canada in Beijing.)

On July 5, Stacey held her sixth annual road hockey tournament in Toronto, and raised over $60,000 for Canadian charitie

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