Hockey News, Good and Bad
Mar. 31st, 2019 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedIt's been the final week of hockey for both me and Ros.
I played my final game on Tuesday, and went out on a high. My teammates and our volunteer coaches all said I played my best game of the season, and it certainly felt like I was getting first to the puck and shooting it where I meant to most of the time.
Today was Ros' last game, and she and the rest of our D played a really solid game. (They lost, but not by much, and it was to a stronger team.)
That's the good news.
The bad news, which I got on my phone just as Ros was coming off the ice, is that the Canadian Women's Hockey League, the one professional women's league in this country, has just been disbanded because they couldn't make it financially. I am doubly sad about this because I was just at the final playoff game for the league last week, and we were going to get family season's tickets for next season.
And I'm angry that the massively talented women in the league, who for my money play far more exciting hockey than the men's professional leagues, minor or NHL, and without the nonsense of fights every period, don't even have the option of playing for even the rather low pay they were getting in the CWHL.
Because I've been looking at it all season, I ordered myself a jersey of the Toronto CWHL team, the Furies, to wear when I'm doing lessons, and got Ros a Furies fleece.
I played my final game on Tuesday, and went out on a high. My teammates and our volunteer coaches all said I played my best game of the season, and it certainly felt like I was getting first to the puck and shooting it where I meant to most of the time.
Today was Ros' last game, and she and the rest of our D played a really solid game. (They lost, but not by much, and it was to a stronger team.)
That's the good news.
The bad news, which I got on my phone just as Ros was coming off the ice, is that the Canadian Women's Hockey League, the one professional women's league in this country, has just been disbanded because they couldn't make it financially. I am doubly sad about this because I was just at the final playoff game for the league last week, and we were going to get family season's tickets for next season.
And I'm angry that the massively talented women in the league, who for my money play far more exciting hockey than the men's professional leagues, minor or NHL, and without the nonsense of fights every period, don't even have the option of playing for even the rather low pay they were getting in the CWHL.
Because I've been looking at it all season, I ordered myself a jersey of the Toronto CWHL team, the Furies, to wear when I'm doing lessons, and got Ros a Furies fleece.
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Date: 2019-04-01 04:52 am (UTC)I'm very sorry to hear about the CWHL - that's sad news on every level. but go you for buying merch, and celebrating their existence
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Date: 2019-04-01 09:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-04-01 01:26 pm (UTC)I'm glad you and Ros had a good season otherwise!
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Date: 2019-04-04 07:20 pm (UTC)Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention but the CWHL's announcement really stunned me. I was hoping that maybe the two leagues would merge, I figured they'd be stronger together, but I wasn't expecting them to fold. And I agree, it's so frustrating that more people don't watch women's hockey. It's such a beautiful game of passing and skill, much more so then the men's game. And it's annoying that there isn't more and better coverage, too.
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