MONTREAL – Danièle Sauvageau knows a thing or two about defying the odds.

As head coach, the 2025 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee led the Canadian women’s hockey team to their first Olympic gold medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games, despite Team USA being heavily favored.

She’s been told “no” more times than it’s worth counting, and yet each time, Sauvageau has stood firm, looking instead for ways to make women’s hockey better and more sustainable at all levels. From creating the Universite de Montreal Carabins women’s hockey program – the first among Francophone universities in the province – to establishing the Centre 21.02 training facility, it comes as no surprise that the general manager of the PWHL’s Montreal Victoire enters the Hockey Hall of Fame as a Builder, alongside for

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