I’m not treating USA Hockey like a professional league. I’m now treating its players like professional athletes. Can you name any professional sport where the athletes get paid more than the sport generates?

Also, very adorable that you failed to mention the USSF where the USMNT are paid far more than the USWNT because…

Who said anything about “not supporting”? I’ve been saying the revenue the team brings in doesn’t justify 70K a year. I didn’t say they they don’t deserve anything, they just deserve a piece of the pie they make.

The National Lacrosse League (NLL) can’t afford to pay its players $70K a year. In fact the maximum a player is allowed to make is $35,000 a year. The average player makes a little over $19,000. The league barely stays afloat and regularly has teams fold even at that meager salary. I suppose you think attendance is…

By that definition almost every amateur athlete can be considered a professional, including NCAA players which “get paid” a free education

What made them professional athletes any more than most any other olympic athlete? By your own arguments, shouldn’t you be arguing that the NWHL (you know, the PROFESSIONAL league these women play in) should be paying these women more, not Hockey USA?

Ohh what’s that? The NWHL would go bankrupt if they were to pay all…

Ahh, I see, you just want an echo chamber where everyone will celebrate a victory for women, rather than discuss how this fits in the world of sports as a whole.

I bet you dollars to donuts you wouldn’t give a fuck about this story if it were about a men’s team getting paid.

P.S. Great job telling me what I’m thinking.…

They get to play their asses off for free and get themselves career-ending injuries before they have a chance making real money in the NBA. Ironically, these college athletes are generating far more revenue than women’s hockey likely ever will. Yet a mass boycott of March Madness would likely result in... no change.

Here you are not wanting to talk about it and accusing others of doing so.

Well, it worked for soccer, baseball, basketball, football, hockey so far. Those sports became profitable over decades while their athletes barely scraped by before they became super profitable. There are other sports right now, like indoor lacrosse, where professional athletes get paid a pittance because the sport…

Typically the divisions/departments that doesn’t bring in as much revenue are either support departments that allow the higher earning ones to function as well as they do, or are at least self-sustaining! This “department” could now be bleeding money. That is, a revenue stream that’s supposed to be generating a net…

You’re acting like Women haven’t been competing at this level for almost 30 years.

You are making special exceptions. You’re making this about gender when it’s not a gendered issue. Why should the national women’s team get paid more than the national men’s team (which is the case now)? That’s a special exception. When…

But what does paying these women salaries that their sport doesn’t generate have anything to do with exposure? It only gets publicity every 4 years because no one cares.

Let me put you an example. In two days, the Women’s Hockey World Championship starts in Michigan. During the opening day, Team USA will play Team…

My apologies for not giving special treatment to women. See here’s the part you don’t get, none of my arguments are based on gender. If this argument was about how, say,  the men’s national weightlifting team doesn’t get paid a livable wage, I’d be making the exact same argument about whether or not their sport…

Considering a package to attend every game in the entire world championships (including the medal rounds, 18 games total) is only $155, I wouldn’t be so sure. The gold medal game individual tickets are only $40 a piece, and considering full packages and tickets to the gold medal game are still available two days…

It doesn’t upset me. However, I do feel that they should earn a percentage of the revenue they generate. There’s no evidence that this is occurring. If you need to use the proceeds from beer leagues league fees to prop up the salaries of a National Women’s team, you’re doing something wrong.

Considering they play against boys using the women’s rules, your argument falls flat on its face. They’re all playing to the “women’s style” as you put it, so if anything, the Women’s team have an even bigger advantage and still lose.

Besides, this is the Women’s National team. Even if there were more women playing the…

Considering that this National Women’s team can barely compete with 16-18 year old boys that aren’t even the best in their age group in the area (much less nationally) perhaps it’s not a good argument to say that support, marketing or development is the problem. It’s just that the hockey isn’t very good:

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Nobody is interested because it isn’t good hockey. You can literally find more competive, higher skilled hockey by going to any CHL hockey game. Those kids would completely dismantle this National Womens team, and I know this because the National Women’s team reguarly plays teams composed of boys that are not good…

Because their salaries could easily outstrip the revenue the team generates in a year now. Aka, USA could actually be at a net loss on their Women’s Hockey program now, which would mean it’s being propped up by the revenue the men’s hockey generates.

And the revenue the women’s team generated vs the men’s team? The men earn a percentage of the revenue they generate.