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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
That's not entirely true. Hockey is incredibly expensive and increasingly out of reach for more and more Canadians (Torontonians).
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A buddy of mine coaches his daughter's hockey team and they are extremely excited about this new league. Ella Shelton, who scored the league's first goal, is from this area and is known to (and now idolized by) many of these younger girls playing youth hockey. They may not be able to have the same dreams of lifetime riches if they make the pros the same way their male counterparts do, but having this new league certainly gives them something else to shoot for. And hopefully it helps grow the female game outside North America because it does get a little tiresome when the women's world championship rolls around and it's Canada vs USA every year (except the once when Canada missed the final in 2019).