Canada and USA's Deaf Hockey women's national teams will face off in a three game series at the inaugural Jeff Sauer International Deaf Hockey Series this month.
Canada and USA's Deaf Hockey women's national teams will face off in a three game series at the inaugural Jeff Sauer International Deaf Hockey Series this month.
Canada and USA's national Deaf Hockey teams will face off in a three game series as part of the Jeff Sauer International Deaf Hockey Series to be held April 11-14 in Amherst, New York.
The tournament, named in honor of Jeff Sauer, a member of the US Hockey Hall of Fame and former president of the American Hearing-Impaired Hockey Association, will bring together men's teams from Canada, USA, Finland, and Czechia, and women's teams from Canada and USA.
Team USA's women's roster features several past and present NCAA hockey players including Madison Gagliano who spent two seasons of NCAA DI hockey at Merrimack before transferring to play NCAA DIII hockey this season at Suffolk University. McKinlay Karpa is another former NCAA DI player who started her NCAA career at RIT before transferring to DIII with Colby College. They're joined by players like Joely Griffith, who works as the Director of Youth Hockey for the ECHL's Reading Royals and spent three seasons of NCAA DIII hockey at Alvernia University, former Hamline University forward Jessica Goldberg, and current Minnesota high school forward from White Bear Lake Paige Downey. Also on Team USA is Kailey Niccum, who helped the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Falcons win an NCAA DIII national championship this season.
Canada's 16 player roster features one of the nation's most recognizable Deaf Hockey families with Emma Kyte and Abi Kyte competing. The sisters are the nieces of Jim Kyte who was the first Deaf player to compete in the NHL, playing 13 seasons in the NHL.
Vancouver will host the 2025 World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships from May 8-17.