Long-time national team player Danielle Goyette, 41, who was Canada's has signed on to coach the Calgary Dinos start-up women's hockey program. Globesports.com's Allan Maki noted the new team at the U of Calgary "will work in conjunction with the Olympic Oval, home to the Oval X-treme, which have won four senior national championships."
Hearing Calgary is commiting to CIS women's hockey is welcome news to any team who's gone up against the Alberta Pandas at the national championship over the past few years. It won't happen overnight, but a team training out of the Oval in a big centre for the national women's team program could eventually threaten the Pandas' puck dominance.
Another women's hockey note: The IIHF will hold its first Under-18 women's world tournament in Canada in January 2008. It's an eight-team event with the U.S., Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and the Czech Republic also sending teams.
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