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[womenshockeydaily]

Where to watch women's hockey

[stereax]

oh boy...

[grantmentis]

“I really do think people are kind of missing the whole story. Yes, this will put the best players in women’s hockey in one league, and definitely promote it, definitely get better over the years. But it kind of did ruin a lot of people’s lives in a very quick, 10-minute Zoom call,” she says. “I think people should really see the other side of it. You know, all the people in the PHF that signed contracts were relying on this money, relying on the job for next year. And now there’s a very big [sense of] uncertainty.

“With the limited amount of teams [in the new league], that means not everyone’s going to get a spot. Someone that’s at the bottom of the PHF probably could have made $50,000, and is now thinking, ‘I have to go get a full-time job because my likelihood of making this league is not very high.’ So, you know, I feel for a lot of people that are now trying to think, ‘Do I want to continue playing hockey, or should I just start my life and figure out if I need to go back to school, get a full-time job?’

[strawberryblondebutch]

[mitchmarner]

via truetemperhockey on tiktok

[coffee-at-annies]

Welp. Congrats to the places getting Woman’s Hockey next year

[arsonandhockey]

The PHF was wonderful for me as a person and as an artist. Here are some of the pieces that the league commissioned from me. I was truly devastated by what happened with the PHF. I’m still processing but im hoping the future is bright

[marcorossi]

While Skaja is in the “real world” with a job that she is getting used to, it will be back to school next month for Boreen, who is working in a pharmacy and has three years of schooling remaining. The Whitecaps had pledged to work around her school schedule. Like Skaja, she cannot relocate to play for a team elsewhere, and Boreen said that just being a student, as opposed to being a student-athlete, will be a change.

[frostbeees]

[womenshockeydaily]

If you have children someday When they point to the pictures Please tell them my name Tell them how the crowds went wild Tell them how I hope they shine

[justbackgroundnoise]

a five and a half hour drive to Montreal from Toronto on Friday and a five and a half drive back home today meant a lot of stops at Tim Hortons which also meant I got a ton of hockey cards (I cant help myself) and these are the fun ones I got. women’s hockey cards are my kryptonite.

[grantmentis]

PHF players form a committee

[gerrypleasedefaultme]

As someone who personally believes in committing to the bit, I can tell you that people generalizing all women's sports as boring is such bullshit. And not just because obviously generalizing tends to lead to nowhere due to the fact that nuance is an important part of arguments but also because it's just plain misogyny.

People could argue that women's sports are boring because they don't play as hard and are less skilled than men, but here's a question: Why are we trying to compare women's sports to men's sports?

Even if anything about women being less skilled was true, it is fundamentally important to understand that most women's sports tend to play other women's teams or women in individual sports tend to play other women. They're not playing men.

Nobody's asking how skilled they are compared to men, which is the fatal flaw in that type of viewing. If you're constantly watching women's sports and asking why they aren't like men's sports, you're not going to enjoy them anyways.

More importantly, these women are playing at the highest level they possibly could be in their sport. Obviously there's varying difficulty depending on whether or not someone is playing for an olympic or national team, but these women are still playing at a high level and generally the highest level they could be playing.

Women playing in slams, women playing for their national team, and women winning gold medals are quite literally playing at the highest level they could possibly be playing.

Because here's the thing: Bringing this up will only serve as a reminder that it was never about skill but rather consistently viewing women's accomplishments as less because they are women.

Acting as if women who are professional athletes aren't skilled is ridiculous.

Generally, most people understand the type of skill and hard work you have to put in to be a professional athlete. Why would it be any different for women's sports? How could women put in the same amount of work and be less skilled? Because women supposedly don't have the same skill that men do?

Women are skilled. Women are skilled at what they do and the sports they play and trying to compare them to men is so ridiculous. Women currently hold more slam titles than men. Jackie Mitchell's contract was null and void after striking out two hall of famers.

Why are women less when historically women have always competed at just as high of a level?

Another argument I've heard is seeing women hurt in their sport makes people want to help them and ask, "Are you okay, sweetie?". While it is normal to be concerned when seeing anyone injured in any sport, it is important to remember that professional athletes are not children and do not need to be treated as such. If violence and serious injury is a problem in a sport and it becomes a recurring issue versus a one time thing, then it needs to be handled within the sport. It is not a reason to not watch women's sports.

If you won't watch women's sports for serious injury, then you can't watch any sports if you're worried about seeing serious injury. It's not to say it's not concerning to see someone seriously injured, it is to say that you can't make serious injury specific to women's sports and act as if you're fine seeing it in men's sports.

I think I may need to circle back to the beginning part of this post of committing to the bit: I believe you can become a fan of any sport if you are willing to root for one team hard enough.

I have never been a soccer fan. I didn't watch it growing up and I don't really know the rules. Am I going to root as hard as I can for my hometown when their game notification shows up on my phone? Yeah.

Am I going to root as hard as I can for the USA during this women's FIFA world cup because I'm American and know they're going for a three peat? Also yes.

It is easy to be a hometown fan. It is easy to be a fan of the underdog. It is even easy to be a fan of a team that wears your favorite colors.

To act as if it is difficult to be a fan of women's sports is bullshit and deeply misogynistic.

A lot of men's teams, simply for the fact that there are so many of them, suck. It is reality. It's not because men's sports are automatically bad or all men suck at the sport they're playing.

It's because there's just a lot of them and not every player you sign is going to be the next coming of whatever great player played for that sport or franchise. It is because not every team is going to be cohesive. It is because one or two great players do not make a great team. Nothing else.

But this logic doesn't seem to be applied to women's sports. If a women's team sucks, then they're not worth watching. If a women's team sucks, then they're not worth rooting for. If women suck at their sport, who cares anyways?

But some fans seem to have no problem rooting for their hometown men's team that sucks but will refuse to root for their hometown women's team that also sucks.

Another point people seem to like to bring up is the fact that people don't really watch men's gymnastics or don't want to. However, this is just a generally sexist remark as it plays on gender roles and assigns genders to specific sports instead of accepting the sport as it is. And the reality is if men's sports are more interesting, then all men's sports are more interesting. Not just some.

Calling women's sports boring or difficult to watch or acting as if women are boring is bullshit. Women's sports are interesting because it's a sport and sports are meant for entertainment.

[misskelley]

Hillary Knights takeover of Angel City’s Pride Night.

[travisdermotts]

I'm just so deeply confused about the whole pwhpa/phf/pwhl stuff. Like why hasn't any of this news been communicated through the pwhpa channels (ie their website, twitter or instagram)? Why have I found out everything to do with the formation of the so called "best" women's hockey league through tumblr posts and random articles that pop up on my news feed once in a blue moon? Why are they being so hush-hush about it?

Hell, I didn't even know Brian Burke was voted in to be the executive director or that the CBA vote was unanimous until 30 min ago after I sifted through 3 articles and pieced it together.

For the PWHPA, a group that promised the biggest and the best for women's hockey, this whole roll out has been very...not that...

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