Toronto’s New Hockey Champions

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Sure, the Leafs haven’t won a Stanley Cup in over 50 years…but our city has still been able to celebrate some incredible champions.

The Toronto Aeros won back-to-back-to-back titles in the National Women’s Hockey League in 2000, 2001 and 2002. The Toronto Furies took home the crown of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League in 2014. And the Leafs’ Toronto-based farm teams, the Marlboros and Marlies, have also been champs numerous times throughout their histories. 

In 2023, the Toronto Six – with women’s hockey superstar Angela James at the helm as general manager – became champions of the Premier Hockey Federation. And while that league folded, the creation of a new women’s league was recently announced. When our city’s new team takes the ice in the Professional Women’s Hockey League, a new era of Toronto’s hockey history will begin.

 

A photograph of Toronto Six coach and former Olympiad hockey player, Angela James, coaching the Toronto Six in 2021. Image captured by Nathan Fernandes and sourced from Forbes.
A photograph of Toronto Six coach and former Olympiad hockey player, Angela James, coaching the Toronto Six in 2021. Image captured by Nathan Fernandes and sourced from Forbes.

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