Here’s a short list of some of the best women’s hockey reads from 2018. Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash.

As 2018 winds down, I put together a list of some of my favorite women’s hockey reads from the year. The list is in chronological order and isn’t meant to be all-encompassing; it’s just a collection of the stories I enjoyed reading most this year. If you’ve got a favorite piece that isn’t on this list, please feel free to share it!

• Q&A with Shannon Doyle of the Whale – Dan Rice of The Hockey Writers
• China’s Medal Quest – Zoë Hayden of The Victory Press
• The story behind Jocelyne Lamoureux’s ‘Oops, I Did It Again’ shootout move that gave the U.S. Olympic gold – Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald
• Jocelyne Lamoureux, the Golden Goal Scorer of Team USA, Wants It All – Corey Seymour of Vogue
• The art of the faceoff: the game within the game – Mike Murphy of The Ice Garden
• #knight2mtl: Hilary Knight Joins Les Canadiennes – Kirsten Whelan of The Victory Press
• Kristen Campbell: How Grand Forks Helped Elevate Wisconsin’s Next Big Thing – Cat Silverman of InGoal Magazine
• How to Revive a Hockey Team – Kirsten Whelan of The Victory Press
• From blue lines to hop bines: the Sarah Casorso story, part 1 and part 2 – Erik Wollschlager of The Ice Garden
• The troubling reluctance of women’s hockey to combat prejudice – Britni de la Cretaz of The Guardian
• NCAA Highlight: Kelly Pannek – Nicole Haase of The Victory Press
• From Tampere to the Olympics, Winnipeg, and beyond: the lifelong journey of Venla Hovi – Murat Ates of The Athletic
• Q&A: Venla Hovi, three time Finnish Olympian, on her love of Winnipeg and the future of women’s hockey – Murat Ates of The Athletic
• NCAA Highlight: Kassidy Sauve – Nicole Haase of The Victory Press
• Brigette Lacquette is paying it forward – Meredith Foster of The Ice Garden
• Focus on the Now – Annie Pankowski of the Wisconsin Badgers
• ‘Single’d’ out: Buckeyes women implementing analytics to advance their game – Alison Lukan of The Athletic
• ‘The girls here in Montreal helped me love the game again’: The fall and rise of Emerance Maschmeyer – Jared Book of Eyes on the Prize
• From the field to the rink: How one hockey pro is bringing politics to the ice – Erica Ayala of ThinkProgress
• Northeastern and Clarkson are playing the first ever NCAA women’s hockey games outside North America – William Whyte of The Ice Garden