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Brooke Stacey of the Buffalo Beauts handles the puck in an outdoor hockey game against the Metropolitan Riveters on Dec. 28, 2019, in Buffalo. Stacey, originally from Kahnawake, Quebec, gave birth to a baby boy last summer but is returning to the ice for the National Womenâs Hockey League bubble season that begins today in Lake Placid.
(Provided photo â Michael Hetzel) Tyler Tumminia has lost plenty of sleep trying to get the National Women’s Hockey League back on the ice. But now the interim commissioner has had her last night left to toss and turn. The NWHL goes full bubble hockey today when its two-week sprint of a season begins in a quarantined environment in Lake Placid.
Former Black Bear Looking To Be A Role Model
Brooke Stacey played hockey at UMaine from 2014 through 2018, and then spent a couple of months playing internationally, now the 5 10 winger from Kahnawake, Quebec is playing in the NWHL for the Buffalo Beauts.
As a rookie in the highest women s hockey league in the United States Brooke was an All-Star, but had to cut her season short because she was pregnant.
Now a couple of months after giving birth to her son, she is working her way back to be able to play for the Beauts this season.
We talked with her about her journey and how she wants to be a role model for new moms.