Press Release – Women in Sport
Captains Lunch 2021 to celebrate female leadership in sport and business, featuring Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Deputy Prime Minister Hon Grant Robertson and CEO of Sport New Zealand, Raelene Castle ONZM
Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Sport & Recreation,
Hon Grant Robertson and
Chief Executive of Sport New Zealand, Raelene Castle ONZM (Ngāpuhi) will headline the annual Captains Lunch at Eden Park on Friday 7 May 2021, being staged in partnership between Women in Sport Aotearoa and Trans – Tasman Business Circle.
This year marks a special milestone – exactly ‘1 year to go’ until Aotearoa New Zealand will host the 8th IWG World Conference on Women & Sport. The event is the largest worldwide gathering of experts in gender equality in sport and physical activity, with 1,200 participants expected. For the first time in its history, it will be staged as a hybrid with a physical event
And was he ever.
The man who drafted him never had to second guess himself, that s for sure.
Lamoriello: Travis was a core player for the Devils from Day One and still is. He plays in all situations out there whether the goalie is pulled, whether, trying to tie a game or hold on to a one-goal game. He takes all key face-offs and that should say it all about the player but, more important, Travis is liked and respected by his teammates, and he s a coach s dream come true.
Interestingly, Zajac s first National Hockey League game took place on October 6, 2006. Coincidentally, on that same night, Steve Cangialosi made his debut as a member of the Devils broadcast crew.
Rival in Focus: New Jersey Devils by Bill Meltzer @BillMeltzer / philadelphiaflyers.com
It doesn t feel like all that long ago that the New Jersey Devils gave fits to virtually every team in the National Hockey League they were, after all, three-time Stanley Cup champions between 1995 and 2003 and took four trips to the Cup Final between 1995 and 2012 but none more so than the Flyers. The Flyers lost twice to the Devils in the Eastern Conference Final (1995, 2000) on New Jersey s way to winning the Stanley Cup and also fell to the Devils in the second playoff round in New Jersey s most recent run (2012) to winning the Eastern Conference Championship. While the Devils fell on hard times thereafter and have missed the playoffs in eight of the last 10 years, they ve often continued to, well, bedevil Philadelphia.