U.S. Olympian and PWHL Detroit forward Britta Curl-Salemme will miss the women’s pro hockey season after announcing her pregnancy on Monday.
Curl-Salemme revealed the news by posting a picture on her Instagram account featuring her and husband, Andrew, seated next to an open oven with a bun on the top rack and the caption, “Womb.”
PWHL Detroit general manager Manon Rheaume congratulated Curl-Salemme in a post on the expansion team’s X account.
“We’ll certainly miss Britta in the lineup when we hit the ice for our inaugural season, but we’re so happy for her and Andrew, who are embarking on an exciting new chapter of their own,” Rheaume wrote. “While she takes this time to focus on her growing family, Britta will have the full support of our team.”
It’s the first child for the couple who were married in 2024 and were athletes at the University of Wisconsin, where Andrew was a wrestler.
Curl-Salemme is the second member of the U.S. team that won gold at the Milan Cortina Games in February to announce her pregnancy. She joins Kendall Coyne Schofield, the Minnesota Frost captain, who announced she is expecting her second child last week.
Curl-Salemme spent her first two PWHL seasons with Minnesota, where she won the 2025 Walter Cup championship in her rookie year. In June, she signed a three-year contract with Detroit in the league’s expansion process.
The 26-year-old from Bismark, North Dakota, finished third in the league last season with 29 points, including a single-season record of 18 assists.
Curl-Salemme had a goal and five assists in her Olympic debut in February, and has won two gold medals and two silvers representing the U.S. in world championship play. Though she attended the U.S. team's pre-tournament camp in Michigan last week, Curl-Salemme was left off the roster set to compete at the world championship tournament opening in Denmark on Friday.
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FILE - Minnesota Frost forward Britta Curl-Salemme celebrates after scoring a goal during the first period of game 3 of a PWHL hockey semifinals game against the Montreal Victoire, on May 7, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and Estonia were hit Monday by problems with freezers and fridges that apparently were caused by cyberattacks, forcing some to dispose of ruined food.
The problems follow a case last month in which attackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of supermarkets and independent stores across France, sending temperatures soaring.
Gustaf Nilsson, a spokesperson for Sweden's ICA Group supermarket chain, told the TT news agency that “a limited number” of stores were affected overnight by an incident that affected refrigeration and freezing systems. He declined to give a specific number.
An ICA Kvantum store in Sjöbo, southern Sweden, said its fridges and freezers had been hacked and set to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). In a Facebook post, it said staff were discarding affected products.
The Coop chain said that six of its stores in central Sweden had problems with their fridges and freezers, TT reported, though it didn't immediately have details.
The Delhaize chain said that an “IT incident” had affected refrigeration systems in several dozen of its stores, mostly in Belgium but also a few in neighboring Luxembourg.
“In the affected stores, the range of fresh and frozen products is temporarily somewhat limited. Our distribution centers are operating normally, and there has been no disruption to deliveries to our stores,” spokesperson Sarah De Meester said.
Carrefour said a cyberattack targeting refrigeration systems had affected 15 of its more than 700 stores in Belgium, describing the impact as “extremely limited.”
In Estonia, a refrigeration technology company said attackers had accessed a computer controlling a client’s refrigeration system and raised the temperature to 50 degrees Celsius, public broadcaster ERR reported.
Jann Mutso, chief executive of Kitman Coldtech, declined to identify the store but said the attack was addressed within minutes and caused no significant damage. The Selver supermarket chain said one of its outlets was affected.
In Ireland, refrigeration systems in 13 SuperValu stores were affected by the “cyber incident,” parent company Musgrave Group said. A spokesperson said chilled and frozen products were removed from sale as a precaution.
On Monday afternoon, the company said the incident had been “fully resolved” and “replenishment of chilled and frozen ranges in the affected stores is well under way.”
The cyberattacks in France appeared to target old systems.
Destroyed refrigerated goods are being thrown away from powerless freezers at ICA Baronen store on Odengatan in Stockholm, Monday, Nov. 2, 2026, as some of stores have suffered problems with their refrigerators and freezers overnight. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
Freezers are seen out of power at ICA Baronen store on Odengatan in Stockholm, Monday, Nov. 2, 2026, as some of stores have suffered problems with their refrigerators and freezers overnight. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
