Author Lorna Schultz Nicholson takes a look at the very first women's world hockey championships back in 1990 in her juvenile non-fiction title Pink Power: The First Women's Hockey World Champions . It is published by Lorimer . | Buy at - Amazon - Chapters | Why pink? Because Canada made the controversial decision to dress its National Women's Team in pink and white as opposed to the customary red and white. The idea was to draw attention to the women's game, but it almost backfired as the pink offended many. But by doing so women's hockey was the talk of the hockey world, drawing media and public attention to the series. Immediately following Canada's gold medal and fantastic showing at the first championships registration in girls' hockey went up 40%. In the book Nicholson introduces some of the key players and looks at the obstacles they had to overcome to play hockey. She also looks at the hurdles women's hockey in general had to face. She follows ...