“Right now, I’m so passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, especially in hockey.'
FILE - Brigette Lacquette poses for a photo at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton, Alberta, Dec. 28, 2021. Lacquette, a defender on Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team in 2018, is now a Chicago Blackhawks regional scout and the first Indigenous woman to scout in the NHL. Lacquette, 29, also serves on the NHL’s player inclusion and female hockey advisory committees.
“They all just kind of stared at us. No one said, ‘Hi.’ No one said anything. We sat on one side of the dressing room and they just stared at us. I remember how uncomfortable of a feeling that was,” Lacquette told The Canadian Press. “Right now, I’m so passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, especially in hockey,” Lacquette said.
“They’re promoting inclusion by creating teams in First Nations communities and developing all-female referee crews and training female coaches and things like that, so I feel like they’ve done a lot for their community,” Lacquette said. “Traditionally hockey is a white man’s sport, so kind of changing that narrative of it just being strictly a white-man’s sport.
A barrier to playing games there included a lack of certified referees, which Blizzard association president Christina Lamey said was a problem quickly fixed. The Cape Breton Blizzard Female Hockey Association has doubled in membership in two years to 300 playing on 18 teams.
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