Women in the NHL

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by fastpuck

Contact, no hit. Meaning if the puck is involved, than you can bump grind, turn a shoulder of an opponent into the boards, but no actual hitting. Still can be a physical game, but no open ice hitting.

You can puck battle, you can't hit. You can't open ice hit or hit/rub someone out along the boards like you can in the men's game.

Still physical yes, but not, IMO, physical enough.

For the life of me I can't understand the reason for the different rules.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by troutman

I'm not comparing adult men and women, but my son's 10 year old spring hockey team had a few "friendly" games with the Havoc Girls team (also 10 years old). My son's team was dominating their league, but usually lost by 10 goals or more each time they played Havoc. I don't know if they are some kind of girls all-star team, but they are incredible skaters.

The boys didn't take to losing to them very well, and the last game of the season got ugly, with the coaches threatening violence on each other. Quite a gong show.

ugh, spring hockey

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by t0rrent98

I bet the Womens Olympics USA and/or Canadian team can beat teams like the Oilers, Islanders and Buffalo. Haha.

The canadian olympic womans team plays in the boys midget aaa league - and they don't fair well

http://www.amhl.ab.ca/standings.php

so to answer your question - NO

[troutman]

ESPN Body Issue

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

You can puck battle, you can't hit. You can't open ice hit or hit/rub someone out along the boards like you can in the men's game.

Still physical yes, but not, IMO, physical enough.

For the life of me I can't understand the reason for the different rules.

If I recall, body contact was allowed for the first World Championship in 1990 but the IIHF changed the rule afterwards. It was because the European teams were already disadvantaged skill-wise with respect to the North American teams.

Originally Posted by troutman

ESPN Body Issue

Wowzers, Hilary Knight!

[BurningSteel]

Torts has been coaching for years. He whines like a ........ well y'all know.

[Northendzone]

i have played on a few mens teams that played teams most made up of women, and positionally, the women were far better than us and the first period and half are usually an uphill struggle as we had to come to grips with playing against women and thier style fo play, but once we started pushing back, the game always changed.

toget to the NHL, a woman would have to play completely with boys including college/CHL teams - that would be a hard road to go, because of the isolation of a female on a mostly male team - she'd have to have her own locker room and be somewhat excluded from the team.

i can't see it happening........

[kn]

The San Antonio Spurs hire Becky Hammon as an assistant coach:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...ticle19914949/

Is there any reason a woman couldn't be an NHL assistant coach, other than the fact the NHL is a notorious old-boys club?

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by kn

The San Antonio Spurs hire Becky Hammon as an assistant coach:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...ticle19914949/

Is there any reason a woman couldn't be an NHL assistant coach, other than the fact the NHL is a notorious old-boys club?

There's no real reason that a woman couldn't hold any position with an NHL club, other than as a player (which I would love to see but does present some problems).

[Mike Teavee]

Originally Posted by troutman

ESPN Body Issue

what does the tattoo say?

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Mike Teavee

what does the tattoo say?

You’ve got a tattoo with the Latin phrase dum vigilo curo. What’s the story on that?

I actually have three tattoos. That’s my biggest one, from my family coat of arms. It means, literally, “While I watch, I care.” And not just honoring my family, it’s sort of the approach I give in my life. If I want something to improve, I need to watch it. I need to consciously make the decision to improve. I use the word sedulous. It means working with a purpose, diligently toward a goal. I’m very goal oriented and driven, and passionate about what I do.


Source:

http://www.uwalumni.com/home/bisprin...aryknight.aspx

[Poe969]

I thought it said "stop staring"

[Yrebmi]

Originally Posted by Mike Teavee

what does the tattoo say?

Remember skates go on last.

[CalgaryFan1988]

Originally Posted by Yrebmi

Remember skates go on last.

Don't you find it hard tying skates with your hockey gloves on?