Tinker co-founded Black Girl Hockey Club Canada in November 2022 and is its executive director. The organization is a chapter of the Black Girl Hockey Club, a United States nonprofit group founded by Renee Hess in 2018 to inspire and sustain passion for hockey within the Black community, specifically among Black women, and provide access to the sport through education and scholarship programs.
Sarah Nurse of Canada’s women’s team scored during the Tendy Tandem challenge at the NHL All-Star skills competition, highlighting female hockey players’ participation in the event. Nurse was joined by fellow Canadian team members Emily Clark and Rebecca Johnston and Americans Hilary Knight and Alex Carpenter in several events during skills night. Nurse used a .