Overview
- Hockey Canada announced Wednesday that 64-year-old Danièle Sauvageau will serve as general manager of the national women’s program with a contract that runs through the 2030 Winter Games.
- Sauvageau will keep her job as general manager of the PWHL’s Montréal Victoire for the 2026–27 season and is expected to move into a full-time national GM and vice-president of hockey operations role beginning next year.
- The IIHF’s move of the 2026 women’s world championship to November in Denmark created the short-term window that lets Sauvageau hold both roles and requires quick planning for the tournament less than four months away.
- A selection committee that included former players Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Therese Brisson and Gillian Apps plus senior executives such as Brad Treliving and Hockey Canada CEO Katherine Henderson chose Sauvageau to lead the rebuild.
- Sauvageau brings prior international success and recent pro experience—she coached Canada to 2002 Olympic gold, won world titles in 1999 and 2001, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2025 and guided Montréal to a PWHL championship—and she may hire or serve as coach for the November world championship as she assembles the program toward 2030.