2010–11 Canada women's national ice hockey team

National team

 * September 14: Four members of its 2010 Olympic gold medal-winning National Women’s Team: Becky Kellar, Gina Kingsbury, Carla MacLeod and Colleen Sostorics have announced their retirements from international hockey.

Four Nations Cup

 * September 21: Former NHL player Ryan Walter has been named the head coach for Team Canada at the 2010 Four Nations Cup. Assisting Walter will be current Minnesota Duluth assistant coach Laura Schuler and Ryerson Rams head coach Stephanie White.

IIHF World championships
Canada will attempt to win the gold medal as they compete in the 2011 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in Switzerland.

Under 18 team
The National Under 18 team will compete in the IIHF World Under 18 tournament Jan. 1-8 in Stockholm, Sweden. The U.S. women defeated Canada in the final to win the first two world under-18 tournaments in 2008 and 2009 while Canada won the third in 2010. 2011 roster members Erin Ambrose and Emily Fulton were part of the 2010 gold medal team. The roster includes players born in 1993 and 1994. The 20 player roster was chosen from a 31 player training camp held in Toronto. The head coach will be Sarah Hodges (head coach of the University of Regina), while her assistants will be Cassie Turner and former national team member France Montour. On December 30, 2010, in an exhibition vs. the AIK Bantam boys team (at Husby Ishall Arena) from Sweden, Canada bested the club in a 4-2 victory. On January 8, Canada lost the gold medal to the United States by a 5-2 score.

News and notes
Jim Fetter, head coach of the Wayne State Warriors women's ice hockey program, will be the head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team for the 2010-11 season. Fetter will also be the coach for Team Canada at the 2011 MLP Cup.

Yellow/Blue intrasquad

 * Game 1: August 8, Blue 4, Yellow 2

Intrasquad notes

 * August 8: Four different players scored goals to give Blue a 4-2 win over Yellow on the first day of intersquad action at the National Women’s Under-22 selection camp. The game was played in Toronto at the MasterCard Centre.

Isabel Menard and Natalie Spooner both scored in the first for Blue. Marie-Philip Poulin scored in the second to make it 2-1. Eventually, Blue would be ahead 4-1. Poulin tried to get Yellow into the game, scoring her second of the night. Yellow squad goalie Erica Howe made 40 saves.

August series vs. USA

 * Marie-Philip Poulin scored a hat trick as the Under 22 team beat the US by a 7-2 score. With the victory, Canada had a three game sweep in its exhibition series vs. the US.

MLP Cup

 * December 14: Hockey Canada announced that Roxanne Douville has been added to the roster of Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team for the 2011 MLP Cup. Douville is replacing Cornell goaltender Amanda Mazzotta who is injured and unable to participate.

Roster
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Awards and honors

 * Rebecca Johnston, Player of the Game, Gold Medal game at the 2010 Four Nations Cup
 * Female Hockey Breakthrough Award: (outstanding contribution to advancing female hockey) Laurie Taylor-Bolton
 * Liz MacKinnon Award: (special contributions of a Hockey Canada volunteer's spouse) Jill Donovan