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Well when the NHL started they also had to work other jobs/didn’t get paid much!

Well this mens minor hockey league gets paid like less or the same!

Uh actually, everyone had to go through labor battles to get there, so like if you wait long enough.

A.) Anyone who is doing full time work should be paid at absolute minimum, a livable wage for the area they live in. If your minor men’s hockey league is being taken advantage of you should start to advocate for them to be paid more. Unless you don’t actually care and this is just a convient reason for you to check out of the conversation.

B.) You might have started to pay attention to women’s hockey five minutes ago, but women’s hockey has existed since before they were officially allowed to play. Which yes, allowed to play. White men have never had to fight for their right to play for fun, much less in a professional capacity. Marginalized men are still fighting tooth and nail for their place in hockey, and deserve the recognition and opportunity that has been denied them. And this implication that women have to wait and earn their access to professional space and a living wage is asinine. No one should have had to fight in the first place, but they have fought more to end up with less already.

C.) I make $16 an hour 40 hours a week in the country side in the Midwest. Not a major city. I’m extremely lucky I have a good relationship with my family and that they are still willing to support me by paying for food and letting me live rent free all year round. And even in this situation I could not afford to move out and there are still other bills to pay. Not to mention student loan debt. Which I imagine not a small number of professional players have. I can’t imagine all of them got full rides at college for hockey. This is not enough money for the players to pay bills and invest in their future even if food and shelter is immedialty taken care of.

pwhl-mybeloved

sidneywokeby

nhl goalie problems: like 3 teams have a legit great goalie. league sv% below .900 for the first time in a william years. every goalie streaky and prone to suddenly throwing a series.

pwhl goalie problems: every team has three goalies who should be starters. worst GAA in the league would be middle of the pack in the nhl. nobody can score a fucking goal bc they're all brick walls.

shutoutshutup

yeah.

grantmentis

sports fans are so anti-labor it makes me want to scream. so many people on r/PWHL are defending these absurdly low salaries, so many people don't understand why players might want an NMC or NTC etc. how do you even begin to convince these people that athletes deserve fair compensation for their labor?!

Reddit hockey boards may honestly be the stupidest people on earth. In general on top of a lot of sports fans anti labor sentiment there’s also the misogyny that the girls should just be happy to be earning anything and therefore we can’t go “I think it wouldn’t be too crazy if they earned roughly the same amount as the average offices email marketing coordinator for doing something that only .0001% of the population can do, will forever alter their body, takes a 24/7commitment to conditioning, and is raising their rich as hell owners networth.”

zmpl

even if bioessentialism was real and all trans women had some inherent advantage over cis women in sports you could not pay me to give a fuck because sports are made up. they are games people play for fun. even though we as a society invented careers around sport it is still boiled down to the fun made up game where you kick a ball. or dribble a ball. or swim in a pool. or show people how fast you can run. it’s for leisure. fun. not serious. who gives a fuck. fun. #mygame⚽️🏀🏈⚾️

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drop-of-infinity

WHATEVER I DONT EVEN CARE

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CHRISTINE ROGER: Before I let you go celebrate, you were witness to a lot of Marie-Philip's achievements. This was an extremely difficult year for her, mentally, physically, she had to dig deep to stand here on her two feet today. Did she manage to surprise you yet again, being crowned playoff MVP, how do you react to that?

CAROLINE OUELLETTE: You know what's funny? After [the win], she reminded me that here, on this ice, was where she kneeled to hand me the last Clarkson Cup. And she told me, "It was when you were pregnant with Liv." You know, that was her first [thought]—I really wanted to win here, because that's where we won the last Clarkson Cup. You know, to think about that, it meant a lot. And yes, she's been through so much this year. A lot people could've thought that she wouldn't be able to come back, but if there's one person who could do it, it's her. No one saw how much effort she put in off the ice, to come back healthy enough to come back and be able to help us in many different ways, scoring big goals, blocking shots, be the best leader we could have, inspire confidence in the people around her. I am so happy to have been able to watch Marie-Philip win the Walter Cup.