Overview
- The PWHL collaborated with Tim Hortons and Mattel to produce Barbies dressed in league gear featuring Sarah Nurse and Marie-Philip Poulin.
- Nurse said the dolls offer a tangible role model for girls who lacked hockey-playing toys and underscore opportunities in women’s professional sports.
- This Barbie release builds on a 2020 Hockey Canada partnership that first introduced dolls of Nurse and Poulin as Olympic ambassadors.
- Nurse signed with the new Vancouver franchise in June after the league’s expansion draft left her unprotected by the Toronto Sceptres.
- PWHL Vancouver will kick off its inaugural season at the Pacific Coliseum in November, with Nurse joining emerging talents such as Emerance Maschmeyer and Claire Thompson.