Women's hockey clearly has a future, and if you don't believe me, look at enrollment rates. The only growth in Canada amongst hockey registration is female youth.
With the Buckeyes now running a female hockey skills camp, I can't imagine it will be long before there is a competitive CCHA women's league, and following that, perhaps a big ten league.
Finland already has a women's hockey league set in two different tiers.
There are also benefits for our own locals. Yale has 5 Albertans on the team, who, ten years ago, would never have received any kind of scholarship to an American school, let alone at the Ivy level.
It can't be more than another olympics or two before there is a great team (canada) and 3 other main rivals.
How long did it take the Swedish Men's team to be competitive against the giants of the sport?
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