Dream Gap Tour kicks off in Toronto

Kacey Bellamy (pictured) is an Olympic champion, a world champion, and a Clarkson Cup champion. With a resume that boasts such credentials, the 32-year-old native of Providence, Rhode Island isn’t unreasonable in her desire to earn a sustainable living wage playing hockey.

Yet during the September 21-22 weekend in Toronto, there was Bellamy joining several of her U.S. national teammates and Canadian counterparts in the first stop of the Dream Gap Tour, organized by the newly formed Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association.

The PWHPA was borne out of a players’ movement to create a single professional women’s hockey league, following the shocking demise of the Canadian Women’s Hockey…