Imagine, for a moment, that you put all of your dreams on the line weeks before the most important event of your year.
NHL scores 2017: USA women’s hockey won gold so nothing else matters
Fine, we’ll talk about the NHL too. Yeesh.
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There’s a decent chance your dreams don’t come back. Your career could be over. Your employers could look at you from across that line in the sand you just crossed and walk away.
But they don’t. Your dreams return, and so does the hope that more and more girls around the country can share them one day.
And then you go out and win a darn gold medal for them.
What a whirlwind few weeks for the United States Women’s National Hockey Team. A month ago, players threatened to plunge USA Hockey’s hosting of the IIHF World Championship into chaos with a boycott unless they received better pay and grassroots hockey development support.
Two weeks ago, they got exactly that after grabbing national headlines and putting USA Hockey into a corner. The players then suited up and stormed into the gold medal game with Canada on Friday, where Hilary Knight added to her USA Hockey legend.
Storybook indeed, though that implies a certain sort of finality: a fairy tale where the heroes win, lived happily ever after and THE END. The chapter ends, the book closes, and that’s it.
Knight’s goal and USA Hockey’s historic March actually feels like the prologue to the real story: a terrific tale of women’s hockey’s journey from the fringes to the mainstream.
An inevitable story, of course. But it had to start somewhere, and it sure feels like it started here. We can’t wait to see where it takes us.
Scores from other hockey leagues
Florida-based hockey team named after weather phenomena: 4
Une équipe de hockey basée au Québec, qui est une province du Canada: 2
Three things we learned
1. The Lightning just made this weekend even more interesting
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And by that I mean oh MAN, the Lightning are just one point back of the Maple Leafs for the last wild card berth. The Leafs never blow leads around playoff time, though. This will be fine.
2. Should’ve voted for this Hilary
3. Anton Stralman ain’t worried about no wild card race
Just ... maybe make sure they don’t sit on your lap. That bruise is ugly.
Impact Moment
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