Breaking Down Barriers

Season 1

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS will showcase individuals and organizations who are committed to changing hockey culture. Each episode will spotlight and celebrate those who are committed to fostering positive social change within the sport from professional to minor hockey levels.

Where to Watch Season 1

12 Episodes

  • Breaking Hockey's Glass Ceiling
    E1
    Breaking Hockey's Glass CeilingHockey is the last of the major professional sports to see the inclusion of women in all roles. But in the last few years progress has been made...Women have started to break hockey's glass ceiling, emerging as NHL executives and rising through the coaching, officiating and management ranks.
  • Indigenous Sports Academy- The Story of Courage Bear
    E2
    Indigenous Sports Academy- The Story of Courage BearCourage Bear is the founding director of the first and only Indigenous hockey academy in North America. Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the program is designed to create a safe space for indigenous players to learn and grow both on and off the ice.
  • Girls Hockey in the North
    E3
    Girls Hockey in the NorthIn this episode, viewers travel to Canada's far North to meet the Kuugaruk Dynamite Girls Hockey Team.
  • Changing Hockey Culture
    E4
    Changing Hockey CultureLuke Prokop is fighting back stereotypes as the NHL’s first openly gay player.
  • Canadian Blind Hockey
    E5
    Canadian Blind HockeyCanadian Blind Hockey is changing the lives of children and adults by working to ensure everyone has access.
  • Seaside Hockey-The Story of Kirk Brooks
    E6
    Seaside Hockey-The Story of Kirk BrooksKirk Brooks is a man who has mentored young black hockey players in Toronto for over 30 years.
  • A New Era of Women’s Hockey
    E7
    A New Era of Women’s HockeyA new women’s professional hockey league-the PWHL- will begin competing in North America in January 2024.
  • Behind the Bench
    E8
    Behind the BenchLast season Jessica Campbell became the first female assistant coach in the AHL with the Coachella Valley Firebirds.
  • Trailblazer
    E9
    TrailblazerIn 2020 Kim St-Pierre became the first female goalie inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  • Camp of Dreams
    E10
    Camp of DreamsEvery summer, Vancouver Canucks Defenceman Ethan Bear returns to Ochapowace Nation, Saskatchewan to run his annual summer hockey camp.
  • Straz Strong
    E11
    Straz StrongAfter the tragic Humboldt bus crash ended Ryan Straschnitzki’s stand up career, he switched his focus to sledge hockey.
  • A Season in Review
    E12
    A Season in ReviewDuring season 1 we had the opportunity to meet and tell the stories of individuals and organizations devoted to changing hockey culture.

 

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