Ice hockey expert Alyssa Longmuir gives us all the info to how to watch along these Games and who to look for on the ice. The Olympics always brings forth a plethora of new sports to experience, teams to get invested in, and storylines to follow. In Australia specifically, the Winter Games offers an opportunity …
In a world where statistics in sport are an assumed asset, ice hockey analyst Alyssa Longmuir is grumpily forcing grassroots data to exist in Australia. Nowadays sport and statistics go hand in hand, and there’s an assumption that they’re readily available (well, for men’s leagues anyway). When Alyssa Longmuir became a fan of ice hockey …
It’s a Sunday afternoon in February, one of the hottest months of the year in the driest inhabited continent on earth. And I’m shivering inside O’Brien Icehouse. Ahead of me is the bronze medal and the gold medal games of the Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League. Around me are hundreds of fans, many kitted out …