Why this women’s hockey league is truly different

In immediately’s Big Story Podcast, there have been earlier makes an attempt to launch knowledgeable league for the very best ladies ice skaters on this planet — the celebs we’ve all watched on the Olympics, who’ve needed to work second and third jobs to maintain their careers going. Those makes an attempt have all failed.

“When you’ve been in a position where you’re not getting paid well, you’re not getting treated well, your salary is cut in the middle of the night — it’s hard to have trust. I think that’s true of these players and true of many athletes in women’s sports who have had to deal with just unsatisfactory conditions for a long time in their career,” stated Maitreyi Ananthanraman, a reporter with Defector.

In the hopes of lastly, in the end, securing a secure league, with actual funding and precise, skilled remedy (lengthy missing in different ladies’s leagues) among the sport’s finest gamers shaped an affiliation first, and solely then went on the lookout for a league to play in. This yr, they acquired it. And the early returns have been unimaginable. This is the story of the lengthy street to an actual ladies’s league, and why this time, actually, is completely different.

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