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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
If they don't like it, don't play anymore. It's as simple as that.
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Isn't that exactly what they're doing?
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No one if forcing these women to play for the US National team. Most of them have a free University Education they received as a result of playing hockey, use those, get a career, and move on.
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USA hockey obviously wants these women to play. They are trying to use that as leverage to get better treatment, if that fails I'm sure they'll be happy to fall back on their education. The problem for the national program is that the women playing below them are also backing them up, so it appears the choice will be to negotiate or gift Canada a gold medal, they don't want either outcome but when their entire program is built on beating Canada you would have to think they are going to try all they can to get the women's team back on board.