#usa hockey wnt

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[johnstavares]

Game on! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

[bibliophilicstranger]

Offsides is a rule that makes no sense to me. Why are we punishing people for running faster to get the ball? Why does someone's shoulder being too far forward discount their goal? Just let these women score goals!

[iwannaban0nym0us]

I’m too lazy to go find sources and images right now but the same fucking thing is happening in soccer. The USA WNT(Women’s National Team) get’s paid less for winning than the men get for losing early on in a tournament. The team has been fight in court for equal pay for a while now but it still hasn’t really gotten anywhere. The USA MNT can live very well on only their salaries from the team with out working other jobs while (I think) all of the women on the WNT have to play for the minor league teams that also get NO AIRTIME on TV and some of them even have a third job, or spouses that work.

Also side note Sue Bird’s wife is Megan Rapinoe a star of the USA WNT, what a power couple

Calling this out doesn’t mean you don’t love LeBron James.

[dafbecka]

Here you go anon, the Hilary Knight edit you asked (I uploaded it to my Instagram not here 😅)

[kballer2]

Team USA 🇺🇸 WNT repeat history as 4X Women’s World Cup Champs def Netherlands 2-0. Megan Rapinoe wins life gold boot and Golden Ball as top scorer and top player, Alex Morgan wins Silver boot. Congrats to Team USA Women’s Soccer becoming 4X Women’s World Cup Champs🇺🇸⚽️🥅🏆🎉🎊🎈🎆🎇!!!

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Jason Masvidal get 5 second KO on Ben Askren, fastest in UFC history with a flying knee or V-Trigger

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Jon “Bones” Jones retains UFC light heavyweight title by split decision.

Mike Chiesa def Diego Sanchez

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Julia Avila def Pannie Kianzad

Nate Diaz & Khabib Nurmagomedov got into altercation, both had to be separated, that match could happen later this year or next year.

2 hockey players arrested:

AJ Greer & Sonny Milano get arrested for dismembering a guy complaining about a restaurant bill. Both were in custody at NYC booked for assault given desk appearance tickets and appear in court on later date.

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[fancybelieverdinosaur]

Saw Finland's hockey wnt made it to the semi to set up a date with the US team. Congrats! Or not... Anything can happen in a semi if you guys catch them on a bad day but still 😅 Btw do you also get the feeling Denmark is starting to butt in on the classic Finland-Sweden hockey rivalry lately? The more the merrier I guess but it just feels a bit weird sharing you with them in hockey 🤨 But we'll always have Finnkampen. No country can ever take that away from us!

😂😂😂 Yeah we did well against Japan, but dont have really high hopes against USA. Bronze medal incoming again... I think its good for the game that teams like Denmark are doing better💪 of course Finland - Sweden will ALWAYS be the classic in my eyes as a finn. 😂

[demnoklannik-blog]

Comparison

Who Would Gain If A Battle Broke Out?

Without a doubt the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) - four of the world's largest emerging economies, possess substantial financial and purchase potential, specifically within the technology market. India also has some modern land gear, and is usually currently investing billions of its new money into thousands of pieces of new artillery. This will include a fleet of Arjun MK-II third-generation fight tanks. Brazil provides contemporary weapons, very much of which was bought from the USA, the world's biggest arms exporter. It's most extolled land weapon is usually its almost 400-strong fleet of German-made Leopard 1 tanks that it acquired in comparison.

Like Russia, the U.Beds. Section of Business also splits the U.Beds. into nine under the radar locations for bureaucratic reasons. What stands out in the map over is normally that while the U.Beds. certainly provides locations that accounts for a better talk about of the U.Beds. overall economy, general, financial activity is normally very much even more spread away. The Southeast area, also without Texas, in fact adds the most to total GDP. The Mideast and the Much Western world are not really considerably in back of. New York Town is normally the U.S.' largest, and its greater metropolitan area comprises about 7 percent of the country's total GDP. But that pales in comparison to the outsized role Moscow plays in the Russian economy.

As destructive as the past distortion of intelligence has been, the Obama CIA's apparent interference in an attempt to invert the result of a U.T. presidential selection probably rates with the most severe cleverness scandals in U.T. background. And, compounding the CIA's politics intervention can be the truth that this controversy has taken on a life of its own as the Obama administration prepares to hit nuclear-armed Russia with a combination of new financial sanctions and covert cyber-attacks, evidently with the objective of planning off any rapprochement between Putin and Trump.

Chennedy provides been a spark off the seat. She's certainly a scorer, and when we required a container, that's who we had been heading to, placing the ball in her hands and allowing her make stuff happen. Tyasha acquired been solid. Hindsight is normally generally 20/20. When you possess a player like her and you put her on the counter - she got a little exhausted and we had taken her out to relax her and don't place her back again in. Certainly, hindsight is normally 20/20. She should have got most likely been on the flooring later in the video game. That's something that I'll second-guess carrying out.

Wartime allies by necessity, capitalist America has little in common with the various communist satellite states and countries that make up the Russian empire, the Soviet Union. Both ideologies try to export their belief system to others and view with suspicion any, and every, effort by the other. The American multibillion money financial and military help deal designed to rebuild European countries, the 1948 Marshall Program, is certainly noticed by the Soviets as an attempt to both control the rise of communist actions and, make marketplace conditions suitable for American exports which, in substance, it is usually.

A 2010 research by the American Meteorological Society is usually the first contemporary attempt to assess these results. In their survey, they monitored the results of 17 stratospheric smoke plumes in 2002. What they discovered is that the typical time the smoke plumes presence in the stratosphere was detectable, was only about 2 months. The statement indicates that particles of carbon soot start to clump together at some stage after communicating with sunlight and after that drop out of the stratosphere quickly. 75 This occurs in weeks not really in years, a main contradiction to the premise of nuclear wintertime hypotheses. What is normally not really known is normally now there a tipping stage of equilibrium that would keep the soot aloft if there was plenty of of it. So like many items, there is definitely a particular element of the unfamiliar in this.

Some other question marks for the game: will Ellis give time to either Jaelin Howell or Sophia Smith? Yes, they're young at 17 and 16 respectively, but Mal Pugh is 18 and doing fine. Plenty of national teams possess began adding teenagers into their squads. It depends probably on just how serious Ellis is usually about getting youth players started with the senior WNT beyond having them in camp to get them acclimated to the way the senior team does points. True, not everyone is usually Mallory Pugh, and it's not fair to toss kids into the lineup if they're not truly ready. We'll see.

It's somewhat unfortunate that international hockey guidelines provides a shootout after 10 mins of overtime, as most enthusiasts would recognize you could view this type video game all time longer. Nevertheless, it is certainly a shootout that we proceeded to go to, and it was almost simply because enjoyable as the rest of the video game. The five-hole appeared to end up being both goaltenders primary listlessness, as the bulk of the shootout goals proceeded to go between the hip and legs.

Actually in the post-unipolar instant, China and Russia stay competition instead of accurate companions. As a increasing power, China is normally attaining even more worldwide say and impact, while Russia appears to end up being shedding same, simply because was noticed at the latest APEC and G20 conferences in 2014. Although both countries are having their problems with the Western best right now, faster or later on stress will rise between them. Their anxious relations within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) suggest the potential for strategic and economic competition in Central Asia and the even deeper problem of their irreconcilable interests over regional domination.

Western companies continued to be bankrupt, compelling commotion and anarchy in many countries, and Uk helped some of the governments in backing their companies and reestablishing purchase. Portugal starts a gradual recovery after developing a short-term connections with Uk known as the Franco-German Alliance. Australia exceeded England as the largest economy in Europe and nearly triples the size of its army in 2017.

Russia has been increasing its troops deployment in the Middle East , which undoubtedly affects its permanently deficit-ridden budget, as well as the domestic politics. The best scenario for Russia would be a quick exit from the Syrian conflict, provided that the advances it has achieved would be bartered with the Western in exchange for normalising relationships with it.

What would be nice is if Ellis started that four with her last construction from the last video game: Casey Brief - Megan Oyster- Becky Sauerbrunn - Ali Krieger. That's a very nice four back with two good centers and two good fullbacks and it would be nice for left back Short to not be forced to shift inside, as Ellis had her do for a full half. It's good to know where players can fill in in a pinch, but it's even better to develop players at their natural position; see above re: Oyster.

More broadly, Moscow is signaling a long-term interest in extending its umbrella of anti-access area denial capabilities into the Middle East. The Russians reportedly are shipping some of their most advanced surface-to-air missile systems into Latakia, raising concerns within the Pentagon because that move operates counter top to Russia's statements of restricting the concentrate of its military activities to Syrian rebel groups like the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

Although Mr. Ames's treachery was almost certainly the most damaging breach of U.S. intelligence since the Second World War - Moscow executed several operatives whom he had tricked - Washington's response was significantly much less serious than it would have got been in Soviet moments, or today. In the years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the administration of Costs Clinton, willing to motivate friendly relationships and reform, backed the brand-new federal government of Leader Boris Yeltsin. Before Mister. Lyskenko was informed to leave the country, the Americans even gave the Russians the option of voluntarily sending him back home.

Hands > Exports > Regular 1990 US$ per capita : Hands exchanges cover the source of military weapons through product sales, help, presents, and those produced through production licenses. Data cover main regular weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and boats made for military make use of. Ruled out are exchanges of various other military devices such as little hands and light weapons, trucks, little artillery, ammunition, support devices, technology exchanges, and various other providers. Statistics portrayed per capita for the same season.

[shortykingcoyotes]

The best thing about WNT boycotting

They aren’t just doing it for them.

Like, yes, they will be super stoked to finally get paid to do what they love, and that’s awesome. But they aren’t only asking for compensation for themselves.

They’re asking for youth and development team funding, they’re asking for advertising, they’re asking to grow the game.

They posted about it on social media so they can get attention, and what a lot of people in America love right now is women protesting for equality. But also, all this attention to Women’s Hockey, will probably work to increase revenue to Women’s Hockey. Campaigning for youth and development teams, campaigning for advertisement, will probably work to increase revenue to Women’s Hockey.

Listen, I don’t know what the real endgame is here besides getting pay for WNT, but I’m here for it.

USA Hockey is do or die

[captainchristen]

What's the beef with the women's hockey team??

the uswht are boycotting usa hockey for better pay and so the federation gives equal investment in girls development programs. they’re refusing to show up for the world championship that the US is hosting, and other non-nt woho players are refusing to be called up by usa hockey in solidarity for the wnt

[auroraliiga]

[ktliterary]

Congrats to Carrie Allen!

I’m so thrilled to share the news of the sale of Carrie Allen’s amazing MICHIGAN VS. THE BOYS to KCP Loft! I have long wanted a great teen athlete story, and (to mix a metaphor) Carrie knocked it out of the park. You can read the short pitch below, but I wanted to share something a little extra. In this time of #MeToo, girls in many sports still have to fight to be heard, to be treated as equals to boys they surpass on almost every level. When we took this manuscript out on submission, I asked Carrie to write a short author’s note that I could include with the manuscript, to speak to the timeliness of the story. This is what I got, and I’m thrilled to share it with you:

My agent Kate has asked that I write an Author’s Note to explain why I wrote MICHIGAN VS. THE BOYS and why this story is timely.

Timely?? My own stories that inspired scenes in the book feel like ancient history. Twenty years ago, my bra was stolen out of the locker room that I had to share with my all-male rec team, because there was no place else for me to change. Eighteen years ago, I was flashed by a male teammate from the shower room, dared by his buddies, of course. Fifteen years ago, at the USA Hockey referee certification seminar, a teenage boy followed me into the parking lot and asked me to flash him. Twelve years ago, a youth coach was kicked out of a tournament for grabbing his crotch at me while I officiated his team’s game.

They never managed to chase me off.

This is not a memoir; my stories are different from Michigan’s. But every girl in hockey has those stories. Olympians from the women’s national team have changed in the rink’s broom closet, same as the rest of us. We’ve all endured slurs on the ice. Hilary Knight, arguably the best in the women’s game right now, took hell from the parents — the PARENTS — of her male teammates when she was an adolescent.

I wrote this book because, twenty-five years after my own hockey experiences began, the stories are still the same.

There were 12,000 girls and women registered with USA Hockey when I began playing in 1994. There will be approximately 70,000 this season. Last spring, WNT leveraged their World Championship participation to gain better support for the women’s programs, including grass-roots opportunities for girls. They won.

Previously, it was the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team fighting in court for equal pay. Currently, it is Denmark’s Women’s National Soccer Team, battling their own country for equality.

Billie Jean King’s story is being told through a movie as I write this. The Battle of the Sexes happened before I was born and is still timely. King’s legacy, Title IX, which just celebrated its 45th birthday, is under fire as legislators attempt to slash sexual assault protections on college campuses. In my sport alone, there are 70,000 girls walking into broom closets every day, steeling themselves against the insults that will come this season.

Women’s equality and opportunity in sports is always timely.

MICHIGAN is for this girl, and countless like her, and I can’t wait to share it with you in Fall 2019.

Please join me in congratulating Carrie on Twitter at @CarrieSAllen!

Congrats to Carrie Allen! was originally published on kt literary

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Canada-US ice hockey rivalry thaws as former captains have child together

Caroline Ouellette, Canadas Olympic captain, and Julie Chu who led US, celebrate birth of Liv Chu-Ouellette, who weighs in at seven pounds three ounces

They have battled three times for Olympic gold, racing across the ice as part of womens hockeys most heated rivalry.

On Monday, the former rivals who have captained national hockey teams for Canada and the US announced the birth of their daughter.

Liv Chu-Ouellette, seven pounds and three ounces, was born earlier this month to parents Caroline Ouellette, the captain of Canadas team at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi and, Julie Chu, who led the American team from 2011 to 2013.

I feel truly blessed to experience this incredible adventure with my love and best friend Julie, Ouellette wrote on Instagram. Cheers to the sleepless nights to come!

On November 5th, at 10:18pm, after 40 weeks and 2 days, Julie and I welcomed to the world our beautiful daughter Liv. I feel truly blessed to experience this incredible adventure with my love and best friend Julie. I did not realise it was possible to love this much until I met this little buddle of joy! It was a happy pregnancy for us. Liv was on the ice to win the Clarkson Cup with Les Canadiennes de Montral this past March. We spent the summer coaching the sport we love with great friends. Thanks to our families and friends for your support and for being part of this new journey. Cheers to the sleepless nights to come! Le 5 novembre dernier, 22:18, aprs 40 semaines et 2 jours, Julie et moi avons accueilli notre magnifique fille Liv. Je suis tellement choye de vivre ce moment incroyable avec lamour de ma vie et ma meilleure amie Julie. Je ne croyais pas quil tait possible daimer autant avant de la rencontrer! Ce fut une grossesse heureuse pour nous. Liv tait sur la glace pour remporter la Coupe Clarkson avec Les Canadiennes de Montral en Mars dernier. Notre t fut pass enseigner le sport quon aime avec nos meilleures amies. Merci tous nos familles et amis pour votre support et de faire partie de cette aventure. Cheers aux nuits blanches venir!

A post shared by Caroline Ouellette (@caroouellette13) on Nov 13, 2017 at 8:12am PST

The couple who last season were team-mates on Les Canadiennes de Montral in the Canadian Womens Hockey League first battled for Olympic gold in 2002, stepping on to the ice in the same jersey number: 13.

The Canadians won gold in those games. Chu and Ouellette again faced off for Olympic gold in 2010 and 2014, with the Canadians winning both times.

The decades-long rivalry continued between Olympic games, with Chu and Ouellette playing against each other for more than half a dozen world championship titles. In the 2007-2008 season, the pair worked together as assistant coaches for the University of Minnesota Duluth womens hockey team.

On Monday, Ouellette and Chu who between them have eight Olympic medals described their daughter as their most incredible blessing to date. We have already been blessed with so many things in our life: Amazing friends and family, Love, Representing our countries, and doing things we are passionate about each day, Chu wrote on Instagram.

Their posts sparked an outpouring of reaction online. What Julie Chu and Caroline Ouellette have proved is that you too can live the life of an inspirational sports movie with a compelling relationship arc, wrote one person on Twitter. Another remarked: I cant believe Julie Chu and Caroline Ouellette just ended the USA-Canada rivalry forever.

Kevin Colelli (@kcolelli)

The former captain of the Canadian WNT just had a baby with the former captain of the USWNT. How do you expect me to be okay right now?

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[fancybelieverdinosaur]

We have a 🇸🇪 vs 🇩🇰 clash tomorrow in women's Olympic ice hockey. Yup, we were drawn in the same group once again in a team sport qualifiers or championships 😅 The hilarious thing is today 🇩🇰 had to root for a 🇸🇪 win in regular time vs 🇨🇳 (read only five Chinese players, rest from USA and Canada...) to keep the hope of a quarterfinal alive. Tomorrow 🇩🇰 (with a former Swede wnt coach 😂) have to defeat 🇸🇪 to get out of the group and vice versa. How is 🇫🇮 ice hockey wnt doing?

Basically 🇫🇮 is doing like shit. 3 games played, 3 games lost. We've had soooo many problems even before the Olympics started. After the first game, head coach left the tournament due to personal reasons. Health problems in the family or so. But yeah, we are not doing well. Usually womens ice hockey has been the one event we know we will get one medal, not this time. 😅

[junker-town]

Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senators send letter to USA Hockey supporting women’s team boycott

Public pressure mounts against USA Hockey.

The United States women’s hockey team has gained powerful allies.

The team is currently boycotting the upcoming IIHF World Championship in Michigan and demanding equitable support for women’s hockey by USA Hockey. Over the weekend, reports surfaced that the men’s team is considering withdrawing from their own World Championship in solidarity with their women’s team colleagues.

Now, U.S. senators are getting involved. On Monday, Massachussetts senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues delivered a letter to to USA Hockey executive director Dave Ogrean.

In a statement, the senators (all Democrats) write the USWNT athletes “indeed deserve fairness and respect, and we hope you will be a leader on this issue as women continue to push for equality in athletics.”

Warren and her colleagues also cite federal law, which requires programs like USA Hockey to provide the equitable support the women’s team is requesting.

USAH has an emergency conference call at noon to try and resolve the USWNT boycott. Read about all that's happened: https://t.co/an0HkDdBWr

— The Ice Garden (@TheIceGarden) March 27, 2017

The women’s national team outlined their goals when they announced the boycott on March 15. Beyond fair wages (the players earn only $6,000 every four years), the players want to see more developmental support from USA Hockey and marketing efforts.

US WNT will not play in 2017 World Championship due to stalled negotiations over fair wages and support from USA Hockey #BeBoldForChange http://pic.twitter.com/qEXVyoKE6y

— Hilary Knight (@Hilary_Knight) March 15, 2017

USA Hockey spends $3.5 million annually for the men’s national development team program. No such program exists for women’s hockey.

Here’s the full letter the senators sent to USA Hockey executive director Dave Ogrean.

The text of the letter is below:

March 27, 2017

Dave Ogrean

Executive Director

USA Hockey

1775 Bob Johnson Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80906

Dear Mr. Ogrean,

As Senators committed to gender equity in all realms of American life, we write to express our serious concern with allegations raised by members of the U.S. Women's National Hockey Team regarding USA Hockey's inequitable allocation of resources to the women's hockey program and unjust treatment of national team members.

As you know, the women's team has chosen to boycott the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship games, citing faltering negotiations with USA Hockey regarding equitable pay and resources. Among other issues, the women note that USA Hockey expects female players to "train full time and compete throughout the year," yet pays them only $6,000 every four years, an amount that would put them far below the poverty line. The women's team is in the process of negotiating a four-year contract with USA Hockey that includes "appropriate compensation."

As the National Governing Body for ice hockey in the United States, USA Hockey is required by the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act to "develop interest and participation throughout the United States" in ice hockey and "be responsible to the persons and amateur sports organizations it represents." USA Hockey is also legally required to "provide equitable support and encouragement for participation by women where separate programs for male and female athletes are conducted on a national basis."

We are disturbed by reports from the U.S. Women's National Hockey Team suggesting that USA Hockey is not providing "equitable support" to female athletes. While USA Hockey provides its male athletes with a "seemingly endless" supply of hockey equipment, for example, female players are often expected to "buy their own." This "inequitable support for equipment, staff, meals, travel expenses, transportation, and publicity" is apparent at younger levels of the sport as well: while USA Hockey spends $3.5 million to support male youth athletes in its National Team Development Program, there is no parallel development program for women.

The U.S. Women's National Hockey Team has medaled in every Olympics since 1998, when Women's Hockey was first added as an Olympic Sport. The team has won gold medals at the IIHF World Championships for the past three years in a row. As Megan Duggan, team captain, announced last week, the women's team has "represented our country with dignity and deserves to be treated with fairness and respect."

We urge you to resolve this dispute quickly to ensure that the USA Women's National Hockey Team receives equitable resources. These elite athletes indeed deserve fairness and respect, and we hope you will be a leader on this issue as women continue to push for equality in athletics.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts

Patty Murray, Washington

Dianne Feinstein, Cailfornia

Patrick Leahy, Vermont

Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut

Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire

Sherrod Brown, Ohio

Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts

Thomas Carper, Delaware

Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin

Robert Menendez, New Jersey

Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii

Cory Booker, New Jersey

Bob Casey, Pennsylvania

Kirsten Gillibrand, New York

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USA women’s national hockey team to boycott 2017 World Championship over fair wages

The host country’s players claim they haven’t received equitable support.

When the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship kicks off in Plymouth, Mich. on March 31, the host country will not be there.

Multiple United States women’s national team players announced the team’s intention to boycott the event on Wednesday unless “significant progress” is made on negotiations with USA Hockey on fair wages and other support issues.

Stars like Hilary Knight and Amanda Kessel posted the team’s statement simultaneously on Twitter on Wednesday morning.

US WNT will not play in 2017 World Championship due to stalled negotiations over fair wages and support from USA Hockey #BeBoldForChange pic.twitter.com/qEXVyoKE6y

— Hilary Knight (@Hilary_Knight) March 15, 2017

In a statement, USA Hockey said they “acknowledge the players’ concerns and have proactively increased our level of direct support” to the team ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

That support, according to USA Hockey, includes (emphasis ours), “a six-month training camp, additional support stipends and incentives for medals that could result in each player receiving nearly $85,000 in cash over the Olympic training and performance period.”

That $85,000 appears to be a ceiling; for example, via bonuses should the team win a medal. Either way, $85,000 every four years is not much.

“We have communicated that increased level of support to the players’ representatives and look forward to continuing our discussions,” said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey.

The organization also indicated it is prepared to field an entirely new team while the current players sit out the World Championships.

While USA Hockey is disappointed that players from the Women’s National Team program have said today they do not intend to participate in the upcoming IIHF Women’s World Championship unless their financial demands are met, USA Hockey remains committed to continuing dialogue and will field a competitive team for the upcoming 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan.

“In our role as the national governing body, USA Hockey trains and selects teams for international competition,” said Jim Smith, president of USA Hockey. “USA Hockey’s role is not to employ athletes and we will not do so. USA Hockey will continue to provide world-leading support for our athletes.”

But the players’ concerns go beyond pay, according to their attorney Dee Spagnulo, who laid them out for The Ice Garden.

According attorney Dee Spagnuolo, players want 3 main things 1)Compensation 2)Increased programming 3)Support for marketing/PR @TheIceGarden

— Erica L. Ayala (@elindsay08) March 15, 2017

There are penalties for withdrawing from IIHF events. According to the bylaws, host countries are fined $100,000 for withdrawing from the men’s World Championships after Sep. 1 of the preceding year. USA Hockey would be fined $15,000 for this boycott of the women’s event.

So this is the women’s team’s bargaining chip: pay us fair wages and support or pay the IIHF a boatload of money in fines.

The women’s team cites the Ted Stevens Amateur Sports Act, which mandates that national sports bodies “provide equitable support and encouragement for participation by women where separate programs for male and female athletes are conducted on a national basis.”

The women’s team claims unequal support from USA Hockey compared to the men’s side. From ESPNW’s story:

According to the players, USA Hockey spends approximately $3.5 million annually to support a schedule of more than 60 games a season for boys participating in its national team development program. There are no comparable development opportunities for girls.

In essence, the women’s team has pushed for pay equality for over 17 years. In a defense piece for ESPNW on Wednesday, former United States women’s national soccer team star Julie Foudy offered this anecdote:

In 2000, when the hockey players told USA Hockey that they had hired the lawyers who represented the U.S. soccer players, USA Hockey locked out the players and prevented them from training unless they told the lawyers to stand down. Many players and hockey insiders also contend that USA Hockey and head coach Ben Smith cut Granato from the team in 2005 for continuing to question their support. They threatened to do the same to other players who spoke up about the inequity in USA Hockey’s funding, and sadly, it worked.

Here’s the full transcript of the players’ statement:

The members of the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team announce that we will not be playing in the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Plymouth, Michigan unless significant progress has been made on the yearl-long negotiations with USA Hockey over fair wages and equitable support.

We have asked USA Hockey for equitable support as required by the Ted Stevens Amateur Sports Act. Specifically, we have asked for equitable support in the ares of financial compensation, youth team development, equipment, travel expenses, hotel accommodations, meals, staffing, transportation, marketing and publicity.

The goals of our requests are to achieve fair treatment from USA Hockey, to initiate the appropriate steps to correct the outlined issues, and to move forward with a shared goal of promoting and growing girls and women in our sport while representing the United States in future competitions, including the Women’s World Championship.

Putting on the USA jersey represents the culmination of many years of hard work and sacrifice that reflect our love of both hockey and country. In making these requests, we are simply asking USA Hockey to comply with the law.