Women’s Hockey Teams Internationally
When people think of Womens Hockey teams, they have to think for a moment. Womens hockey has taken on a form of its own and has been an equal opportunity sport for women in various different countries such as the USA, Canada and European countries and all the way even to Australia. The first international Womens hockey tournament was held in Ohio, and I am sure you can guess what women’s hockey teams were playing. It was US and Canada. This is the way things were for a long time until some European teams got involved as well as others like Japan, China and even Korea who all got involved as women’s hockey teams internationally developed. National teams were able to get more publicity by doing hockey exchanges, which most of the time were set up by the USA.
It is exciting to watch Women’s hockey teams play as they have some great skill with quick passes, great shooting, superb goal protection and great puck protection. Watching the womens hockey teams play really shows the core principles about the game of hockey. Its intersting to note how during the 1990s however there was some dispute about whether bodychecking should even be an allowed thing in international championshipsof women’s hockey teams. For the US and Canada Women’s hockey teams it has been not allowed as this might cause issues when i comes to the size of certain players not baing able to show their abilities. Im sure your thinking, isn’t that apart of Hockey anyways? Well, Europe is one area that does allow it, and it can give an advantage to some players to slow down the faster skating US or Canadian players of the Women’s hockey teams.
From the 1970s, its interesting to note that the American Girls Hockey Association has wanted to make women’s ice hockey teams included in the Olympics. There has been a lot of controversy over the Women’s hockey teams being allowed to play. For example the issues of body checking between the Women’s hockey teams of the US and those of Europe caused a stir. Or the fact that some countries wouldn’t have enough participants. That the same few women’s hockey teams would just dominate every time. But then it was finally accepted in the 1998 Olympics.
A couple of women that made an impact on women’s hockey teams was Shirley Cameron of Canada who used to play on lakes and ponds when she was younger with her brothers, and Gold medallist Judy Diduck who started playing at 19.
The future of women’s hockey teams is unknown, but one this is certain, and thats the fact that as long as there are girls and women who want women’s hockey teams to survive that it will.
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