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Originally Posted by Table 5
As long as the NHL remains the premier hockey league in the world, no woman will ever play a game in anything other than a stunt.
Management on the other hand... sure, that'll happen at some point.
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I can imagine refs too. It's not a huge club to begin with and it doesn't require anything physically that a female hockey player couldn't do. Sure, some size is nice when you go between players, but some women are pretty strong. And it's not like players generally actually start fighting the refs physically.
It would also be much easier for the NHL to hire a woman that it would be for a team to do that I think. After all, a ref is the same for both sides, so nobody can claim you're giving an advantage to the other guy.
And it would be the kind of PR a league wants more than the kind of attention a team wants.