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Originally Posted by polak
If you think these girls deserve to make 70 Grand a year funded by membership dues from grassroots hockey for playing maybe 10 games a year that barely anyone watches or pays to see because they played the sexism card (with little basis for it) and basically guilt tripped USA Hockey publicly into paying them that then go for it.
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Laugh. You called them girls.
Anyway, athletes have been paid for decades to do train for weird and wonderful sports that we only watch for two weeks every couple years. Plenty of people have no doubt played the "I don't know what I'm talking about but these people should not be paid because I don't care about their sport" card that you just played, yet the practice continues.
The women's national team inspires kids to get involved in the sport. This is pretty clear. Is it worth paying them annually to do so? I can't really say, but I'm sure they do more to get kids into the sport than a million PSAs and bureaucrat-fuelled feel-good programs.