Hockey Blogette is BACK

Just like the NHL regular season, Hockey Blogette is back and not only back but shifting gears and focus to cover some new things.

 

In addition to the Red Wings/NHL Hockey talk, there will be features on all things women’s hockey as well as featured items for purchase from different hockey merchandisers and suppliers.

 

Stay tuned for all of this and more!

It's soapbox time

“I watched women's hockey once. Then I got up and did something better with my life. Like watch grass grow and paint dry.”

“And I don't think any women's sport will really take off. Only women in men's league makes splashes. Just being honest in my opinion.”


Statements like those make me want to scream. Everyone has a right to their own opinion but reading these made me want to throw a hissy fight and/or slice someone's throat with a skate blade. Gruesome? Yes. Fact? Completely. Women’s hockey isn’t given the same funding or respect as the men’s but they are supposed to perform better than the men’s leagues? What are the women supposed to light the ends of their sticks on fire and twirl them around like flaming batons in order for you to be entertained?

Women’s hockey is boring, eh? If it was watched and no attention was paid to who was playing you probably wouldn’t have noticed a difference but since you know that it’s women playing He-Man syndrome generally kicks in and all the sudden you would rather the woman who is kicking ass on the ice be dressed like some glorified skankbox shooting t-shirts out of a cannon at the “real hockey games”. Women’s hockey NEEDS more advocates. It doesn’t need more macho men walking around talking about how Women’s sports will never compare to Men’s sports. Women, generally, aren’t given the same training opportunities or opportunities at all as the men. Girls who play in boy leagues are made to feel like they are less of a girl for playing the game with the boys. I can remember my senior year in high school the only way to be a part of women’s hockey was to transfer to an all girls catholic school and several of my underclassmen actually contemplating switching schools because that was their only opportunity to play. Most of the boy’s/men’s leagues aren’t as welcoming to women as they like to pretend that they are. I've noticed that at the end of the day even if they say they are pro-women's sports teams most people tend to treat them as a mockery. Women can play hockey. That's a fact, jack!

It seems like every couple months someone or something happens and I need to jump up on my soapbox and fight for Women’s rights. And roll your eyes all you please but Women’s hockey is a rights issue. Women aren’t given the same respect (need I remind you of the last time I had to jump up on the soapbox)

Equal Rights To The Hall

Who are Angela James and Cammi Granato and what are they doing in the Hall of Fame?

Lindros, Mogilny, and Bure are all more worthy than those two.

I'm sorry but the Hall of Fame should be mainly what you did for hockey in general, and hockey in general is predominately a MEN'S game. Most people don't even know who these two are.

They deserve recognition, but not HHOF recognition.

So then have a Women's Hockey Hall of Fame if women's hockey is it's own separate sport.

To take them over Bure, Gilmour, Nieuwendyk, Andreychuk,Oates, hell, even Lindros, is ridiculous.

I have no problem with women in the Hall, but make it a separate category, like the builders.

How long before we run out of "great women" and Mrs Howe gets in?

I have never gotten this fired up reading a message board before. Throw your equal rights out ladies, We’re going back to when we’re only wanted in the kitchen apparently. I understand that there are players that didn’t make the cut this year that some people feel should have. But that’s quite a bold statement to say that not only should Women’s Hockey Players not be treated as equals on the ice, they shouldn’t be treated as equals in the hall either.

What do you call a woman playing hockey? A HOCKEY PLAYER. So to say that they should be moved into their own category, segregated if you will, is totally jank. "But... But... But... Hockey is a Men’s game and.... No girls play it... Ever" Fat chance people. I’ve seen some women play that are better than some NHL/AHL players and if they were men they would have their place on a team without a doubt.


It is called the Hockey Hall of Fame. Contrary to popular belief it’s not called the “Only NHL, No Girls Allowed, Only People We Want To See In There-Hall Of Fame”. Angela James and Cammi Granato have contributed to the SPORT of HOCKEY. No, they didn't contribute the NHL. But then again, Women aren't exactly welcomed into the NHL with open arms. They must be worried that we might break a nail or must our hair or something.

“Yes, Women and Women in Hockey belong in the Hall… BUT not before this guy, that guy, and the other guy”. When exactly SHOULD women have been allowed in the HHOF? A new "great" player retires every year. Thus, every year there is a "great" player eligible to go into the hall. If the Hall of Fame selection committee had followed the "better than the ladies" concept, Cammi and Angela might have gone in with the 2027 Hall of Fame Class. Oh wait, Crosby might be in that class... So that would have been a no go as well.

Cammi Granato earned 20 gold or silver medals playing hockey representing the United States in her 15 year career. She along with Geraldine Heaney and Angela James were inducted as the first women in the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato also became the first women inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009. She is the only women to have won Lester Patrick Trophy individually as well as with the 1998 U.S. Women's Hockey Team. Angela James has earned seven gold medals representing Canada in Ice Hockey and an additional two medals (gold and silver) in Roller Hockey. She is a member of the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, the Black hockey and sports hall of fame, and the Canadian sports hall of fame. In 2009, the city of North York changed the name of the Flemingdon Arena to the Angela James Arena. Both players, though retired from their playing careers, remain advocates for the sport of hockey. These ladies are two of the most decorated female hockey players in the world. They deserved to be recognized for it.