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The Province
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'A responsibility, a privilege': Sarah Nurse does her part to grow PWHL in Vancouver
Nurse says: 'Anytime you go into a new place there's pressure. It's also very exciting. This community has already embraced us and we haven't even hit the ice." Get the latest from Steve Ewen straight to your inbox Then-Toronto Sceptres' Sarah Nurse (20) and Montreal Victoire's Amanda Boulier (44) challenge for the puck during second period PWHL hockey action in Laval, Que., Thursday, January 30, 2025. Photo by Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press Get used to seeing Sarah Nurse more and more. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors The expansion PWHL Vancouver club had the Canadian national team veteran forward doing the media rounds Friday, with both individual interviews as well as a press conference with forward Jenn Gardiner and goaltender Kristen Campbell. PWHL Vancouver will begin to play sometime in the fall, and will be based out of the Pacific Coliseum. The now eight-team league — Seattle is coming on board as well — hasn't announced its schedule for its upcoming third season, but this past campaign began on Nov. 30. Nurse was one of PWHL Vancouver's first players, signing on after playing the league's initial two years with the Toronto Sceptres. She will undoubtedly continue to be front and centre in the new club's bid to add to its profile and fan base. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. She remains one of the more recognizable players in the sport. Her picture has appeared on boxes of Cheerios cereal. She was on the cover of the NHL 23 video game alongside then Anaheim Ducks forward Trevor Zegras. She appreciates the promotion piece is part of the gig for her. She's obviously aided by her marketing degree from Wisconsin, and she also has a big-picture view of things as vice-president of the PWHL players union. 'It's a responsibility but it's also a privilege,' Nurse, 30, said over a quick breakfast at the Hard Bean Brunch Co. downtown on Friday. 'I look at it more as we get to share what we love and what we're doing and it's not necessarily just for us. It's for us, but it's also for the next generation of women's hockey players. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'That clicked for me a very long time ago. I look at the women who played before me. They were playing for nothing (financially). You see the sacrifices they made and what they accomplished, and now we get a league to play in, we get some media coverage. We have so many more opportunities. 'To be able to leave the game in a better place than we got it in is the most important thing. If we can pass that along to the next generation, imagine where we'll in two or three generations?' 'It really struck me, having people on the street stopping us and saying, 'We're going to the game. We can't wait for you guys to be here. We love women's hockey.'' — #PWHLVancouver forward Sarah Nurse on what has been so exciting about joining the new expansion franchise. — Izzy 🪿 (@izzycheung37) August 1, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The league's teams played 30-game regular seasons last year. No word yet on what the 2025-26 campaign will bring. PWHL Vancouver has begun selling season tickets, and, while team brass won't say exactly how many have been purchased, they would say that they're selling packages in the Coliseum's upper bowl now. Team brass was quick to point out that there will be single-game seats available in the lower bowl, and that they haven't left that simply for season tickets holders. The PWHL build overall feels methodical and structured so far. Its main predecessor was the Canadian Women's Hockey League, and it folded in 2019, so time was taken to put this all together. Minnesota was the lone team of the original six that wasn't in the northeast region, so travel the first two years was kept compact. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The league has played some games in NHL buildings — a Jan. 8 Takeover Tour game at Rogers Arena between the Sceptres and Montreal Victoire drew an announced crowd of 19,038, which was the fourth-highest single-game attendance in league history — but they've played the majority of the first two years in smaller venues, keeping costs down while creating urgency for tickets and adding to the atmosphere. According to the league, announced attendance among the six teams jumped 27 per cent this past season from their inaugural campaign, going from 5,689 to 7,230. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Travel costs in the circuit will increase dramatically obviously with the addition of Vancouver and Seattle. The Coliseum is also a bigger venue, with hockey capacity listed at 16,281. The WHL's Vancouver Giants departed the Rink on Renfrew for the Langley Events Centre after the 2015-16 season to make their finances work out. The PWHL did do it best to set up both Vancouver and Seattle to start. The teams will be instant contenders. The original six were allowed to protect just three players apiece initially. 'Any time you go into a new place there's pressure,' Nurse said Friday. 'But I think it's also very exciting. This community has already embraced us and we haven't even hit the ice. I know that when they get to meet us as people, get to see us on the ice and see the product we are able to bring they're going to follow up even more. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'When we came here for the Takeover game, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't have super high expectations. We don't get out here often, and neither of us were a hometown team. But the response we got in Vancouver — not only the 19,000 at the game but people stopping us on the street that day, saying they were excited for the game — made me think 'wow, this could be a real thing.'' Nurse suffered a lower body injury during a Canada-USA Rivalry series game last season and wound up missing nine games with Toronto. Her numbers, by her standards, were pedestrian, with six goals and 14 points in 21 games. She was named top forward at the Beijing 2022 Olympics after setting records for most points (18) and most assists (13) in a single seven-game tournament. Canada won gold, and she was also part of the silver-winning team at Pyeongchang 2018. She has five world championship medals on her resume, highlighted by three gold. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The fact she comes from an athletic family is well documented. Her relatives include cousins Darnell Nurse (Edmonton Oilers defenceman) and Kia Nurse (Chicago Sky point guard). 'My family is all very excited for me, because they know that this was something for my hockey career that I needed,' Nurse said. 'I've have had so much and success with a lot of players and a lot of the staff in Toronto, and I think this is such a new, fresh perspective that I'm very excited about. My dad especially thinks that this could be the best thing for me.' @SteveEwen SEwen@ Read More Local News Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver Canucks Sports Crime
The Province
22 minutes ago
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Who is Victoria Mboko? Canada's newest tennis sensation climbs the ladder at the Canadian Open
She is now in the round of 16 facing American and first seed, Coco Gauff, at 6 p.m. on Saturday Victoria Mboko of Canada celebrates her victory against Marie Bouzkova of Czechia during their third round match on Day Five of the National Bank Open in Montrea. Photo by Minas Panagiotakis / Getty Images Canada's newest tennis sensation, 18-year-old Victoria Mboko, is continuing to attract attention as she moves into the fourth round of the Canadian Open in Montreal this weekend. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors The last of nine Canadians remaining in the final tournament bracket, Mboko collected her sixth win against a top-50 player, 18-year-old Czech star, Marie Bouzkova, over three sets. She will now face first seed, Coco Gauff, an American at 6 p.m. on Saturday. The two players have squared off before on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, but only once. It was during the Italian Open earlier this year and Gauff prevailed. That was on clay. Now, they'll face off on a hard court. 'I'm going to kind of go into the match how I usually go into every other match despite the surface,' Mboko told The Tennis Gazette after her victory in the third round. 'I'm going to show up with how I play, and I just hope for the best.' She expressed excitement over the rematch with Gauff and expects it to be a hard-fought battle. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Mboko kicked off the Open by besting Australian, Kimberly Birrell, in the first round, serving up 15 aces in the process. In round two, she faced Sofia Kenin, an American and a seeded player (a player who is highly ranked and placed strategically in a tournament by the organizers to prevent top players from having to face each other in early rounds). Again Mboko prevailed, winning 6-2 and 6-3. Against Bouzkova in the third round, Mboko appeared to falter, losing the first set 6-1, but she got her groove back in front of the home crowd and secured a place in the round of 16 (the last round before the quarter-finals). Mboko told SportsNet she shifted her mindset after the opening set and sharpened her focus on court mobility. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'In the second set, I wanted to make sure my movement was at least twice as (good as) it was in the first set, and my concentration as well,' said Mboko. 'I feel like I wasn't really as focused as I wanted to be.' What does Coco Gauff expect from Mboko? Gauff also expects the fourth round against Mboko to be tough. 'She's a great player,' Gauff told Sportsnet. 'We played on clay, so it will be a different match. Obviously, she's gotten more experience just being on tour and playing high-level players. It's going to be a tough match.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Mboko was born an American in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2006. Her family had immigrated there from the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, her parents moved the family to Toronto later that year. She now hails from nearby Burlington. The youngest of four children, all of her siblings play tennis. One sister and brother played at the college level in the U.S. The siblings trained under former Canadian Davis Cup captain Pierre Lamarche. Then Mboko travelled to Belgium where she sharpened her skills at Justine Henin Tennis Academy. What sparked Mboko's appetite for pro tennis? Mboko's father Cyprien had the tennis bug originally. Back in the Congo, he and a friend were fans of Andre Agassi, Jim Courier and Steffi Graf. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He told Tennis Canada that the sport was good exercise for his children. 'I must have bought about 1,000 balls from Walmart and they all seemed to end up in the bushes.' How did Mboko's career develop? Mboko first found success in junior-level play, making the Under-14 final as a 12-year-old in 2018. Then she competed in junior Grand Slams, reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2022. Mboko has also competed in doubles play, reaching the final at the Australian Open and Wimbledon with her Canadian colleague, Kayla Cross in 2022. Though just 18, she has injured her knees, inspiring her to be more vigilant about caring for her body. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Earlier this year, Mboko achieved four straight lower-level titles in a 22-match winning streak, not dropping a single set. She competed in her first senior-level Grand Slam at the French Open, making the third round. Mboko also won both her matches during her Billie Jean King Cup debut for Canada in April. The Canadian Open continues through to the finals on Aug. 7. Read More Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here. News Vancouver Whitecaps Local News Sports Vancouver Canucks
The Province
4 hours ago
- The Province
Recipe: These soft tacos are always a crowd-pleaser
Whether you're feeding picky eaters or using up what's in the fridge, soft tacos check all the boxes Juicy tomatoes, zippy lime, a little cilantro and just enough heat to keep these soft tacos interesting. Photo by Karen Gordon Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Some dinners are just easy wins. Tacos are one of them. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. 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THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors They're quick, customizable and always a crowd-pleaser. Whether you're feeding picky eaters, using up what's in the fridge, or just trying to get something satisfying on the table without too much effort, soft tacos check all the boxes. This version is perfect for August, when it's still warm out and no one's in the mood to turn on the oven. The filling comes together quickly on the stovetop, and pico de gallo is as summery as it gets. Juicy tomatoes, zippy lime, a little cilantro and just enough heat to keep things interesting. It adds a freshness that store-bought salsa just doesn't deliver. You can use ground beef, chicken or turkey for the filling. Or skip the meat entirely and use lentils or black beans for a meatless version. But the real secret to great tacos? The pico. That mix of fresh ingredients adds brightness and balance to every bite. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Here's a tip I always follow: add a little sugar to your pico de gallo. Just a pinch. It doesn't make it sweet; it simply lifts the flavour of the tomatoes. That tiny bit of sugar rounds everything out and pulls the whole dish together. This is one of those meals that is as fun to eat as it is easy to make. Set out some shredded lettuce, cheese, and a bowl of your homemade pico de gallo, which also doubles as a delicious salsa for dipping. Let everyone build their own tacos and add a side of tortilla chips for dipping. It makes for a casual, colourful dinner that is perfect for relaxed August evenings. A few tips: • For a meatless version, swap the ground meat for 1½ cups of cooked lentils or black beans. Sauté the onion and garlic as usual, then stir in the legumes along with the spices and water. Let everything simmer for a few minutes so the flavours come together. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. • To add more heat, include the jalapeño seeds in the pico de gallo. • Planning ahead? Leftover filling and pico de gallo keep well in the fridge. Try them in taco bowls, layered over nachos or spooned onto eggs the next morning. Soft Tacos with Homemade Pico de Gallo Ingredients: For the filling: 1 tbsp. (15ml) olive oil 1 small onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 lb (500g) lean ground beef, chicken, turkey or cooked lentils 1 tsp. ground cumin 1 tsp. smoked paprika ½ tsp. chili powder (more if you enjoy heat) ½ tsp. salt ½ tsp. black pepper ¼ cup (60ml) water For the pico de gallo: 3 medium tomatoes, diced ½ small sweet onion, finely chopped 1 small jalapeño (optional), seeded and minced ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro juice of 1 lime This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ½ tsp. salt or to taste ¼ tsp. sugar For assembling and serving: 8 small flour or corn tortillas shredded lettuce, sour cream, shredded cheese, avocado, lime wedges tortilla chips Instructions: Toss the tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, cilantro, lime juice, salt and sugar in a bowl. Stir everything together and let it sit for at least 10 minutes. Taste and adjust salt to suit your preference. Cover bowl with plastic clean wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill until needed. Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook for a few minutes until it softens. Stir in the garlic, then add your ground meat (or lentils). Cook until browned and fully cooked through. Add the spices, salt, pepper and water. Let it simmer for a few minutes so the flavours come together. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Quickly warm tortillas in a dry skillet or wrap them in paper towel and microwave for 30 seconds to soften them. Spoon the filling into each tortilla, add a generous scoop of pico, and pile on whatever toppings you like. Finish with a squeeze of lime. Serve with a side of tortilla chips and pico. Enjoy! Serves 2 to 3 people. Karen Gordon is a Food Blogger from North Vancouver who shares her recipe creations online at on Instagram at @ and on Pinterest @karentologyblog Read More Vancouver Whitecaps Crime Vancouver Canucks Sports News
