To Vancouver General Manager Cara Gardner Morey, who hails from Ontario and is coming off a 14-year career with Princeton Women’s Hockey in New Jersey, the Vancouver-inspired name Goldeneyes presents some exciting opportunities for her to define the team’s style of play.
“Goldeneyes travel in groups together. They defend. Their fight instinct,” Gardner Morey explained. “They move with the wind. I really love thinking of the speed of the game. We’re going to be a fast, tenacious team. And they always look from above and I want us to see the game that way.”
Gardner Morey, who was an All-American field hockey and ice hockey player while a student-athlete at Brown University, has also coached at numerous levels for Hockey Canada and served as a development coach for the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. All this to say, she knows what makes high-level athletes and coaches tick. To that end, Gardner Morey had an astute and poignant take on the importance of her 2025-26 Goldeneyes organization to the entire meaning of the team’s history.
“As players and staff, it’s really about the people. We tend to think of a team in terms of the players and coaches who came before us. That’s what makes a team name mean something. Well in this case, we’re the ones that are going to make what this image is. We’re going to define what Goldeneyes means to people. That’s a responsibility for us, and I look forward to that,” she said. “My goal is to be Vancouver’s favorite sports team. I want the people to feel like it’s their team. Not just a sports team—a part of their community they care about. We’re going to be a very entertaining, high-octane team and I want that logo to be something they have an emotional connection to.”
Those words from Gardner Morey are music to the ears of Bologna, who saw this entire project through. “Ultimately, I hope the Goldeneyes will mean home,” Bologna summarized. “That it will be the team that feels like it belongs to the city, not just geographically, but emotionally. That fans will wear the logo with pride, not just because they support the team, but because it reflects who they are and where they’re from.”
