Women’s hockey boycott ‘had to happen,’ Hayley Wickenheiser says The six-time Olympian, now working for the Maple Leafs while continuing medical school, sees a league backed by the NHL as the way to go for the women’s game.

bodycarpenter · 2019-06-08T13:42:41+00:00

Women don’t even support themselves. If women want professional sports recognition - the only way to do that is increase the viewership. No women are wanting professional sports because they want to watch - they just want to force guys to have to watch it.

They just literally can’t stand it when guys are satisfied doing something that doesn’t involve them.

Maximum_Afternoon · 2019-06-08T13:49:00+00:00

I remember looking into this a month or two ago, and the NHL actually had a position on the issue. They said women's hockey doesn't cash flow that's why we're not doing it.

I mean think about it from the NHL's point of view, it's like, okay, so your bankrupt lead now has no viewers, the reason you're striking is the can't pay the players enough, so you want us to come in invent the whole thing from scratch, higher everyone back at four times their wages, and that is supposed to work somehow?

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