Erica Howe paid it forward in hockey. She wants to do the same in her cancer journey.

The goaltender who has represented Canada internationally was among the foot soldiers in the movement for a viable, sustainable professional women’s hockey league.

Howe joined the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association after the Canadian Women’s Hockey League folded in 2019 and took her Markham Thunder club with it.

There was a paying women’s hockey league she could have joined, the Premier Hockey League. Howe was among the players who put their faith behind the PWHPA’s vision for four years, even if a dream league arrived too late to benefit them.

“She all along was a strong foundational player in that movement and a voice that people respected a lot,” said Hockey Hall of Famer Jayna Heffor

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