At the beginning of the 2021 NHL season, there are a record eight players of Asian descent on a NHL roster - a significant increase from the five players of Asian descent at the beginning of the previous 2019-2020 season. These include: Matt Dumba (RD, Minnesota Wild): A top-pairing NHL defenseman and co-founder of the… Continue reading Record Number of NHL Players of Asian Descent to Start 2021
An overview of hockey players of Asian descent for the 2019-20 season.
One of the most prominent Canadian hockey players of all time, Sunohara has won 2 Olympic gold medals and 7 World Championship gold medals. Sunohara was born in Scarborough, ON in 1970 and is a second-generation Japanese-Canadian. Playing primarily as a centre, she spent two years at Northeastern University from 1988-1990, winning an ECAC championship… Continue reading Profile: Vicky Sunohara
Jessica Wong and Rachel Llanes have been selected as All-Stars for the Canadian Women's Hockey League All-Star Game on January 20, 2019. Both Wong and Llanes play for the Shenzhen KRS Rays, a team based in Guangdong Province in southern China that competes against teams in Canada and the US as part of the only… Continue reading Wong and Llanes Named CWHL All-Stars
The second-most decorated American woman in Olympic Winter Games history, Julie Chu (1982-) has had one of the most accomplished international, professional, and coaching careers in hockey. Chu was the first Asian-American to join the US National Team when she was selected for the 4 Nations Cup in 2000. A right-shooting centre, she would go… Continue reading Profile: Julie Chu
Asian Americans in Hockey 
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