It’s a cliché saying, but while the United States women’s ice hockey team may have finished No. 2 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, they are No. 1 in the eyes of many young female hockey players throughout the United States.
Team USA fell short in the women’s ice hockey gold medal match, losing 3-2 to Canada Wednesday night to earn silver in Beijing.
Team USA lost to Canada in the women’s hockey gold medal game after being held to just one goal.
While it wasn’t the result the team was hoping for, the two weeks of competition put women’s hockey in the national spotlight, a place that the sports does not see enough of.
“You can be here too,” captain Kendall Coyne Schofield said when asked what her message to young female hockey players would be. “I hope you enjoyed watching back home. Women’s hockey isn’t on TV enough. And it can’t just be these two weeks, we need it to be more visible, more often.”
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