Go ahead then, look at ratings, the attendance and ticket prices of their games and justify the salary increase, because I can’t find it. There are CHL teams with higher attendance, higher ticket prices and practically no player salary that fold because they can’t afford to keep operating at a loss. I have no idea how…

So since the NHL pulled out, this means the teams for the USA and Canada will be composed almost entirely of players in lower leagues like the AHL, ECHL, and European leagues that pay far far less than the USA Women’s National team are now making. See, the NHLers that used to play on these teams didn’t take a salary,…

No of course not. Logic and reason obviously has no place here.

That’s nonsense. It just isn’t good hockey to watch. Maybe if the best women’s team in the world weren’t regularly getting beaten by high school teams filled will boys that aren’t even close to the best of their age group in their area, people will tune in. But the skill just isn’t there.

The fact of the matter is that…

Correct! and with the NHL pulling out of the Olympics, the men that will be representing the USA will be getting paid FAR LESS than the Women on the women’s team.

Maybe, just maybe, people were up in arms about these women getting paid the crazy salary they’re getting paid is because no one cares about women’s hockey and the team doesn’t make any money. Maybe it’s because the attendance at this USA-Canada game at this tournament was 3158 people. This is the best of the best…

Ohh that’s horse shit. Now it’s on the individual players of the individual sports to justify why they deserve to get paid at least the same as these women do? You aren’t talking about a union here. You’re talking about individuals. And no, it’s not fair to compare them to different corporations since these Women are…

Again, you’re not understanding. The Women’s Hockey Team are now getting 70K per year. The bar has been set. How do you justify not paying anyone else that same 70K?

You’re literally talking about thousands of athletes. Assuming it was just 1000 athletes a year, that’s $70 Million a year. That’s almost twice their…

No, no. The Women’s National Team Hockey is now getting paid 70K a year, how do you justify every other Amateur athlete representing the USA not receiving 70K per year now? Not minimum wage, $70K. Badminton? $70K. Skeet Shooting? $70K. Equestrian? $70K? Shotput? $70K. Swimmer? $70K Ice Dancer? $70K. Synchronized…

Most USOC athletes are getting a pittance. Why should the National Womens Ice Hockey team get paid $70K a year while the National Women’s Badminton team gets practically nothing?

The WNBA isn’t sustaining itself either. I’m pretty sure that Women’s Tennis and Soccer the only ones

So the Canadian Women get about $30K a year. So it’s nice they got over twice what they were asking for, I guess.

So could Bill Gates. What’s your point?

You are crazy if they don’t generate the revenue to justify that $70K a year.

So now you’re going to claim they get a piece of the USOC pie? On what grounds? If you’re making that claim, then literally every athlete under the USOC umbrella competing at the International level should be entitled to $70K per year. This…

Ohh, so like many other semi-professional leagues in North America where they often have to get other jobs to sustain themselves. A few of these leagues include the National Lacrosse League, the American Hockey League, the East Coast Hockey League, the Canadian Football League, and so on. Also many WNBA athletes that…

Again, the pie they’re entitled to is the pie that they created. These women now went from being incredibly underpaid to definitely overpaid in one fell swoop. It might not seem like a lot of money to you, but there’s no way they can justify a team salary that’s greater than the team’s revenue.

And the seven Canadian teams in the NHL who are amongst the most profitable? They’re going to fund the USA Women’s hockey team and not the Canadian one? The NBA model works because the vast majority of NBA teams are American, as well as the vast majority of NBA players.

Hockey Canada does pay their Women’s National…

Well that’s fine if you want to discount the NWHL for being new. I can understand that.

The IIHF Women’s World Championship (You know, the championship this 70K per year National Team competes in) has existed well before the WNBA.. Yet attendance is still five times lower than the WNBA’s average attendance in a best…

The WNBA’s average attendance is literally ten times higher than the NWHL’s, and the average salary of a WNBA player is only 3.5 times higher than the NWHL. Not sure why you think that’s a fair comparison.

Horse shit. Nobody is interested in it because it simply isn’t very good hockey. Every attempt at starting up some women’s hockey league has eventually failed. Look at all of the promotion the NWHL has gotten when it first started up. To the tune of 900 average attendance per game for $15 seats. The NBA’s D-league has…