US women's hockey players dominate world competitions, but push for 'one league' back home.
In their demands to USA Hockey, the national team players were asking not just for higher wages for themselves, but for the infrastructure for women's and girls' hockey so the sport would grow. They recognize women's hockey is nowhere near as popular as men's, so their goals are, instead, to lay the groundwork for the future., as reported by The New York Times, with a lack of promotion from USA Hockey.
Michell Picard, Dani Cameranesi, Hilary Knight and Alex Carpenter of USA celebrate after scoring their team's first goal during the IIHF Women's Ice Hockey World Championships quarterfinal match between USA and Japan in Espoo, Finland, April 11, 2019. It helps that they can see the fruits of their efforts. For instance, at this year's world championship in Finland, many of the athletes' families are there. That wasn't always the norm, Knight said.
Otherwise, the athletes have competed in two separate professional leagues: the CWHL and the National Women’s Hockey League in America, where they play on local teams. Picture the New York Rangers, for example, never playing against the Toronto Maple Leafs. "As long as elite women hockey players have professional opportunities, it is not an environment we are prepared to wade into in any formal way," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said. "We have always supported professional women's hockey, and we plan to continue to do so. That doesn't mean we need to form or directly subsidize an existing professional league.
Women's hockey is "about a generation behind women's basketball," Lamoureux-Morando said, and they use that as a sort of benchmark. The WNBA has existed under the NBA's umbrella for more than 20 years now, and while it's still working at reaching popularity levels of the men's league, it has been steadily growing in popularity and esteem.
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