The league needs to step carefully to not crush the quality has made its players extraordinary and human, and become a victim of its own success
PWHL Toronto's Emma Maltais, second from the left, celebrates after scoring against PWHL Minnesota during second period PWHL playoff hockey action in Toronto, on May 8.On Wednesday afternoon, a few hours before the puck dropped in its first playoff game, the PWHL announced Scotiabank had signed on as the league’s official bank.
Back in January, when the PWHL kicked off its inaugural season with a game between Toronto and New York at Toronto’s Mattamy Arena, under the historic roof of what used to be Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the fans held up a sign that said something like, ‘I don’t care who wins, I’m just happy to be here.’
One woman in her early thirties who grew up in Halifax said the scene reminded her of the Cole Harbour arena, where she used to watch a preteen Sidney Crosby skate circles around the older kids. It had the air of a festival, a community celebrating the best of itself. “To see a professional sport, for $40? It’s unheard of. And it makes this stuff affordable,” she said, holding up the toques, which were retailing for $35. “I’m a phys-ed teacher in inner-city Hamilton. I can go back with this on, and show my female students what’s possible.”“There is so much more to this than hockey,” she said. I suggested that that’s what the snarky commenters – the ones who constantly carp about how the game isn’t as good as the NHL – don’t understand.
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