Billie Jean King walks by and you stop and stare and then you stare some more. Because she’s Billie Jean King. Because she’s a living, breathing ...
Because she’s Billie Jean King.
King got a call a few years back from the American hockey star Kendall Coyne Schofield, via King’s longtime friend American hockey great Angela Ruggiero, and Schofield asked King a simple question: Can you help us? Kasten said on Monday at the draft that he has made bigger deals in his sporting life before — but never one so complicated. There already was a professional women’s league. But the best players were mostly playing elsewhere. Kasten had to solve the great divide. He did that, and as he stood on the draft floor watching, looking out at the scene he has been so much a part of manufacturing, he couldn’t help but feel like a proud papa.
“We’re not a charity,” said Jocelyne Larocque, the defenceman who has been around, and was Toronto’s first pick in the draft, second overall. “Sometimes we’ve been seen as a charity.” Larocque is 35 years old, which is unusual for an early hockey pick. But Toronto decided to build from the back out. They signed Renata Fast as a free agent. They drafted Larocque.
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