Three Hockey Shows, Three Arguments With the Sport
The Conversation Canada calls Heated Rivalry TV's buzziest show; it debuted in late 2025, with Off Campus following in 2026. [S14E3] Shoresy promotes an inclusive vision of hockey that includes women and Indigenous people in leadership positions. [S14E6] Heated Rivalry's queer romance challenges the sport's longstanding assumption of heteronormativity, while Off Campus highlights the issue of sexual assault within hockey. [S14E7] Three shows, three pressure points: who gets to lead, who gets to love, and what the sport does about assault.
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The number that keeps this from being only a television story: Hockey Canada's 2022 discrimination report found that negative comments about sexual orientation and gender identity accounted for 61 per cent of incidents witnessed by officials.
Fiction can move faster than a dressing room. As the NHL season begins, a series of controversies suggests many of the sport's longstanding cultural issues remain unresolved.