Cassidy Gordon, 16, plays defense for the Guelph Gryphons girl’s hockey squad and she is a living example of hockey safety. Newly moved from PEI, Cassidy recalls how she escaped serious injury or worse in a recent Gryphons game when a skate slammed into her neck guard. Lying in intensive care she heard the doctor telling her mom that he would have had bad news for her if Cassidy had not been wearing the guard. It was the insistence of coaches for the Red Devils team in Pownal, PEI, that taught Cassidy not to cheat. It was, as she recalled for Nancy Russell of the CBC “a really big deal to make sure we had our necks protected.” The article caught the attention of similarly safety conscious Coach Kim McCullough of the Leaside Junior Wildcats who tweeted a warning to local players McCullough is the proprietor of Total Female Hockey, a school to teach women to play their best game.
