#ellen weinberg hughes

[sincerelymarner]

Tell me about the girl

my mother was,

before she traded in

all her girl

to be my mother.

What did she smell like?

How many friends did she have,

before she had no room?

Before I took up so much

space in her prayers,

who did she pray for?

speak to me of my mother, who was she - jasmine mans

credits: the athletic / texas history / unh / cbc / sportsnet / on the bus with cammi & aj / espn / texas history

#ellen weinberg hughes #jack hughes #quinn hughes #luke hughes #truly do not know how to tag this #I kinda hate this but I've spent too much time thinking about this and if I don't post it now it will never see the light of day #there's so much more I could add but I'm on my phone and can only add 10 photos :/ #mere.png #hockey poetry #web weaving #*h

[ijustdontlikepeople]

Connor Ingram, “X” 12.21.23

#nhl #connor ingram #tie domi #max domi #Jack Hughes #Quinn Hughes #Luke Hughes #Jim Hughes #ellen weinberg hughes #william nylander #Alexander nylander #Michael nylander #matthew tkachuk #brady tkachuk #keith tkachuk #fathers & sons #hockey #national hockey league #new jersey devils #vancouver canucks #ottawa senators #toronto maple leafs #arizona coyotes #washington capitals #st louis blues #columbus blue jackets #hartford whalers #annies edits

[hischughes1386]

Ellen really said copy and paste when she gave birth to Jack.

#jack hughes #ellen weinberg hughes #Ellen Hughes #luke hughes #njd family skate #nhl stadium series #stadium series #nj devils #nhl #new jersey devils #devils #hockey #njd

[hugheses]

mini hugheses feature from bally sports detroit

#ignore the score focus on the cute bbies #also is that dylan duke's mom sitting with them? the guy looks sorta familiar too but idk who he is #jack hughes #luke hughes #quinn hughes #ellen weinberg hughes #jim hughes

[slaymiedrysdale]

ELLEN ATE

#luke hughes #jack hughes #ellen weinberg hughes #jim hughes #hughes brothers #nhl #hockey #nj devils

[annieqattheperipheral]

"they were at the dinner table playing [4-5] board games for hours last night"

jim & ellen hughes on nhl network rn

edit: its up!

#quinn's wifi is shitty #hughes brothers #ellen weinberg hughes #hughes family #quinn hughes #jack hughes #luke hughes #vancouver canucks #new jersey devils #thomas hickey

[ziggyplayedguitar96]

The lengths that girl had to go through to convince her friends that she was dating Jack Hughes is insane

#nhl #hockey #jack hughes #quinn hughes #lukes hughes #new jersey devils #nj devils #devils hockey #vancouver canucks #ellen weinberg hughes #jim hughes #tiktok #the amount of money she’d have to spend too #truly unhinged behavior

[l14099l]

Quinn Hughes 🤝 Matthew Tkachuk

being mama's boy

#quinn hughes #matthew tkachuk #ellen weinberg hughes #chantal oster #<3

[pocketsizedq]

The ones who started it all.

#kay speaks (: #jim hughes #ellen hughes #ellen weinberg hughes #the goats

[lildevilsadvocate]

hughes -1

2-16-24

#new jersey devils #luke hughes #jack hughes #jim hughes #ellen weinberg hughes

[olliebjorkstrand]

plan of action:

1. imprison gary bettman

2. replace him with ellen hughes

3. make a party in her honor

#and that's about it #nhl hockey #ellen weinberg hughes #she would be fantastic in any job in the nhl pls !!!

[sincerelymarner]

credits: on the bus with cammi & aj / cbc / espn / please look after mom, kyung-sook shin

#there's more to this excerpt at the bottom but i didn't feel like it fit quite right for this. i did link the full thing on my other blog #anyways reading it made me want to cry. to :( you :( mom :( was :( always :( mom :( #ellen weinberg hughes #quinn hughes #jack hughes #luke hughes #<- kinda. he's present in photo but not in quote #this is the spiritual successor to my other post #been ruminating on this for far too long. it's gotta be posted now or it will never be #i actually have too many feelings about this family and honestly probably could keep this going #mere.png #*h

[m3tth4ws]

#ellen weinberg hughes #from la presse article 2020 #she’s just. really cool!

[wehaveagathering]

ellen weinberg-hughes as an nhl head coach would go hard as hell

#ellen weinberg hughes #ellen are you listening #do the right thing

[slaymiedrysdale]

Future leafs (they’re all gonna get traded there) (source? Delusion)

#nhl #hockey #hughes brothers #nj devils #vancouver canucks #luke hughes #quinn hughes #jack hughes #ellen weinberg hughes #someone please give baby Quintin a hot coco

[hugheses]

ellen weinberg

a lot of people online like to praise her because they love her kids, but before she was mama hughes, ellen weinberg was an even more accomplished athlete than her wikipedia page can tell you. well i have way too much time on my hands and an affinity for googling things, so here is a not-so-little primer on the matriarch of hockey who has contributed far more than just her superstar children.

(basically anything not sourced is from the cammi & aj podcast i have a transcript of)

born in st. louis, she was told she couldn't play hockey because girls couldn't play on boys teams in the state of missouri, and there were no girls teams. went to bob johnson's hockey camp in aspen at age 7. moved to dallas at age 8, where she was allowed to play on the boys team. at age 12, is featured in a news clip "girl hockey player" where she says she wants to one day play professional hockey.

at 15, wins nationals with her U-19 soccer team, the dallas sting, and they are sent to represent the US in the first ever FIFA-sanctioned world women’s tournament in china and proceeded to win gold against all expectations becoming the first US team to win any international soccer competition, male or female. also on this team was her best friend, future woso legend carla werden (overbeck). 1, 2

other noteworthy teammates: she played with mia hamm on her state team and was roommates with brandi chastain at her first youth national team camp for soccer.

she was recruited to lots of top schools for soccer, but chose the university of new hampshire because it was also offering hockey. she describes this as "the lack of landscape really drove my next move" because there was only 31 D1 women's soccer programs in the country at the time, and none in the state of texas.

she reached out to the women's hockey coach at unh, russ mccurdy, and told him she was being recruited for soccer but was really coming to unh because she wanted to play hockey, and he told her that it was unlikely she would make the team. so bob johnson called and asked him to give her a shot, and he said ok. he allowed her to have a one week tryout once soccer season was over, and after the first day, he asked, "what size skates do you wear?" and that was it, she was on the team.

the women's soccer coach, marge anderson, was also a lacrosse player, and encouraged ellen to join the lacrosse team that needed more players. so she did. in her own words:

"I wasn't very good. I could run, but my stick skills- and I learned and I did everything, and it was great, and we went to the Final Four, but I was out at that point. So everybody always says I played three sports like, I was on the team. I was, you know, three sports at that level. I was done at that point and I stuck with soccer and hockey after my first year. But it was a really cool experience."

she may have not been very good but she did go on to coach her own kids teams in lacrosse (and potentially owen power, who is confirmed to have played lacrosse with them but it is not confirmed that it was when she coached them)

(she was #21)

she was an elite skater and creative player, and "would often find herself in trouble in Durham for rushing the puck from her defensive post or trying things like a spin-o-rama".

she helped UNH win 3 hockey championships in 4 years, made the all-new england team (soccer) as a freshman, was named an unh athlete of the year finalist after an injury that kept her out for an entire school year, was named to the ECAC all star team, was an ISAA senior recognition award winner, was soccer co-captain in 1990, and then captain of both the soccer and hockey teams as a senior X

in april 1991, she participated in the Eastern Regional Tryouts of the US National Women's Hockey Team

"We've got it pretty good, playing defense," says senior Ellen Weinberg to fellow defenseman Weston. "There aren't as many of us to choose from. But then, when you look at who's there, they're all good!"

she then went on to pursue a graduate degree at UNH where she was an assistant coach for both soccer and hockey for two years, all the while contributing to historical hockey research to the point that she is named in the acknowledgements of Hockey: A Global History by Hardy & Holman

“It was my way of staying involved because I had nowhere to play. Then I participated in the 1992 World Championship, finished my master's degree. Then I really had nowhere to play." (google translated)

The New Hampshire Vol. 83 No. 18 (Nov. 6 1992)

then in 1992, she played for the women's national team in both soccer and hockey.

the soccer team didn't play in any big tournaments that year, but for hockey she went to women's worlds in tampere, finland, where she was an alternate captain. the US won silver, with ellen scoring 3 or 4 assists in 5 games (depending on which source you believe) and ellen was named to the all-star team by the media as the top player in her position.

also in 1992, she was a power skating coach at the summerland female hockey academy, teaching future star hayley wickenheiser.

there was hope that women's hockey would be a part of the 1994 olympics, but when that didn't happen, ellen went to norway anyways to grow the game.

“They were hoping women’s hockey was going to be sanctioned in the ‘94 Olympics and it wasn’t, so the Norwegian ice hockey federation had all this extra funding so they asked USA Hockey for an ambassador to go over and help grow the women’s game,” she said. “We had played in the ’92 World Championships and I was one of the older people and they offered me that opportunity to go over and work with the Norwegian ice hockey federation and what I did was I lived in Oslo. “And I went around to all the little towns and taught the girls how to play. It was awesome. Since Norway was such a small country with four million people at the time, they needed all the buses during the Olympics so everyone went on holiday, so my job stopped for three weeks.” X

ELLEN WEINBERG of Boston and the University of New Hampshire was interested in Coach TIM TAYLOR's tactics at practice. The 25-year-old Weinberg, one of America's best female players, is advising Norway's women's teams. Women's hockey becomes an Olympic sport in 1998. "They complain in Norway that I coach too long on the ice," she said. "They should see this guy, always instructing." X

she was invited to camp in lake placid for the 1994 women’s worlds (which took place every two years then), but suffered a serious knee injury that she believes is because they didn’t have proper support/training facilities

“We didn’t have a gym at the time. It was so different. We just played relying on our athletic instincts. If I got injured, it’s probably because I didn’t have the ideal support,” (google translated) X 

by 1996 she was playing for the itech blaiders roller hockey team in NJ (and her then-boyfriend, jim, was coaching the new jersey rockin’ rollers) while also working in broadcasting

she had been considered a lock for the nagano olympics, despite being “old” but that “blown-out knee effectively ended her competitive career” :( 

she ended up in nagano anyways as a reporter for cbs, one of her first big gigs in her media career, which i can do a part 2 on if there's interest.

and currently she’s on the USA hockey foundation board and is a player development consultant for the women’s national team

#hopefully this was interesting/helpful #it’s been half finished for so long #ellen weinberg-hughes #jack hughes #luke hughes #quinn hughes