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Cassie Dawin Campbell-Pascall[1]CM (born November 22, 1973) is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played for the Mississauga Chiefs, Toronto Aeros, and Calgary Oval X-Treme. She won two gold medals with Canada at the Olympic Games. After her playing career, she has worked as a broadcaster.
Campbell played hockey at the University of Guelph.
Club career
Campbell played with the Mississauga Chiefs before she joined the Toronto Aeros. In 1999-2000, she won her first Abby Hoffman Cup as a national champion.[3] She also won the NWHL Champions Cup that same season.
Campbell retired from competitive hockey on August 30, 2006.[6] She then joined Hockey Night in Canada as a rinkside reporter, becoming (on October 14, 2006) the first woman to do color commentary on a Hockey Night in Canada broadcast.[7] She filled in when Harry Neale was snowed in at his home in Buffalo.[8] She launched her website in the spring of 2008 and is a spokesperson for Scotiabank. She appears at corporate events for Scotiabank and contributed to a blog on the Scotia Hockey Club website.[9]
In honour of Campbell's success, the City of Brampton and Mayor Susan Fennell named a new Recreation Centre, the Cassie Campbell Community Centre, which officially opened in September 2008. The Board of Hockey Canada as well as Canadian hockey icon Wayne Gretzky attended the unveiling.[10]
On November 26, 2013, after Rogers Communications secured a $5.2 billion deal with the National Hockey League for 12 years, Campbell joined Sportsnet's broadcast team, in addition to her Hockey Night in Canada role. Her last broadcast was the New York Rangers at the Toronto Maple Leafs game on December 19, 2023, after she accepted a new position as a special advisor role with the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and announced on the air that this was the end of her broadcasting career after that game.[12] Though she left Sportsnet, she continues to work for ESPN in a smaller capacity.[13][14]
Before the 2018 Clarkson Cup finals, Campbell resigned from her role as a CWHL Governor.[17] She also reported that she wanted to resign from the league in 2016, but stayed on at the request of the league. During the two years, her biggest involvement had been helping to secure sponsorships for the league.
Campbell later joined the NHL on ESPN, who would broadcast games for the first time in 17 years, as part of their new broadcast team for the 2021–22 season.[19]
Interests
Campbell also works as a motivational speaker for Speakers Spotlight, The Lavin Agency and The Sweeney Agency. She is also the author of a book which was released in October 2007. The book is titled H.E.A.R.T., a book co-written with Lorna Schultz Nicholson.[20]
Campbell is married to Brad Pascall, an assistant general manager of the NHL's Calgary Flames.[22] She gave birth to her only child, Brooke Violet, on November 17, 2010.[23][24][25]
In 2007, Campbell was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the same year as Doug Flutie. The June 2007 issue of Chatelaine magazine featured Campbell on its cover for the second time.
On June 25, 2012, Campbell received the Order of Hockey in Canada.[27] She was presented with the Canadian Women's Hockey League Humanitarian of the Year Award in March 2014. The award was presented to Campbell by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[28] On June 30, 2016, Campbell was made a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) by Governor GeneralDavid Johnston for "contributions to Canadian women's hockey as a player, broadcaster and role model."[29]
The Cassie Campbell Community Centre in Brampton, Ontario is named in her honour.
During May 2018, Campbell-Pascall was part of a group of four female athletes, including Fran Rider, Jen Kish and Kerrin Lee-Gartner to publicly pledge their brain to a Canadian research centre. The posthumous donation shall be made to Toronto Western Hospital's Canadian Concussion Centre to further research on the effect of trauma on women's brains.[30]
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