From an on-ice leader to a top boss of the wildly successful PWHL, Hefford is reshaping views about women in sports — and in the boardroom

In an earlier life, Jayna Hefford was among the best clutch-goal scorers in the history of Canadian women’s hockey.

She scored one of the Canadian national women’s program’s most important goals, at the Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002 . With just 20 seconds left in the second period, and Canada holding a 2-1 lead, Hefford sped in behind the U.S. defence, somehow managed to pull a high pass out of the air with her glove, then scored on her backhand to give the underdog Canadians a lead they would not relinquish.

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