Top Ad
I DIG Radio
www.idigradio.com
Listen live to the best music from around the world!
I DIG Style
www.idigstyle.com
Learn about the latest fashion styles and more...

Sources: Women's event set for All-Star Weekend

Written by 
Published in Hockey
Sunday, 12 January 2020 20:23

There will be a new event at the NHL All-Star Game: A 3-on-3 scrimmage between top American and Canadian women's hockey players, sources told ESPN.

The defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues are hosting 2020 All Star weekend, which begins Jan. 24. The NHL is expected to announce full details of the activities -- including a new element at the skills competition, as well as the women's 3-on-3 event -- this week.

The NHL has invited women's hockey players to participate in its All-Star weekend in each of the past three years. In Tampa in 2018, the NHL asked Team USA Olympians -- who were training nearby ahead of Pyeongchang -- to demonstrate drills for the skills competition. Last year in San Jose, the NHL went further: Kendall Coyne Schofield became the first woman to compete in the NHL All-Star skills competition.

In the fastest skater event, Coyne Schofield posted a time of 14.346, which placed seventh in a field that included Connor McDavid, Cam Atkinson, Mathew Barzal, Jack Eichel, Miro Heiskanen, Clayton Keller and Elias Pettersson. Coyne Schofield finished ahead of Keller's 14.526 seconds. McDavid won in 13.378, his third straight title in the event.

"Obviously I was a little nervous," Coyne Schofield said afterward. "But I knew it was a moment that was going to break a lot of barriers and a moment that would change the perception of our game."

Coyne Schofield impressed the crowd -- which began chanting "USA! USA!" -- as well as the other skaters.

"When she took off, I was like, 'Wow,'" McDavid said. "I thought she won the event."

All of the women selected to play in 2020 NHL All Star weekend are national team players and part of the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association -- a group of some-200 players boycotting professional hockey this season, while waiting for a more sustainable pro league. There have been suggestions that the NHL should help form that league.

"For the women's team league to survive, they need the established identity that hits the ground running and knows how to run the sport," John Langel, a lawyer advising the PWHPA, said at the ESPNW summit. "And we've not been secretive about it. We think the one viable option is the WNHL. And that's what we're moving towards."

The NHL has reiterated that it will not create a league as long as a current option exists. The NWHL is currently in its fifth season and has made several efforts this season to offer its athletes better pay.

Read 340 times

Soccer

Diaz hat trick extends Liverpool's perfect UCL run

Diaz hat trick extends Liverpool's perfect UCL run

Liverpool's Luis Díaz scored a hat trick as they maintained their perfect Champions League campaign...

Haaland pen miss as Amorim's Sporting dump City

Haaland pen miss as Amorim's Sporting dump City

Sporting CP marked the final home game of coach Ruben Amorim's reign in stunning fashion as Viktor G...

Milan stun UCL holders Real Madrid at Bernabeu

Milan stun UCL holders Real Madrid at Bernabeu

AC Milan's Malick Thiaw, Alvaro Morata and Tijjani Reijnders all got on the scoresheet in a surprise...

2026 FIFA


2028 LOS ANGELES OLYMPIC

UEFA

2024 PARIS OLYMPIC


Basketball

Hornets' Richards out with rib cartilage fracture

Hornets' Richards out with rib cartilage fracture

EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsAn MRI revealed that Charlotte Hornets center Nick Richards has a r...

Embiid suspended 3 games for shoving columnist

Embiid suspended 3 games for shoving columnist

EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsPhiladelphia 76ers superstar Joel Embiid will be suspended for thre...

Baseball

Braves RP Jiménez out 8-12 months after surgery

Braves RP Jiménez out 8-12 months after surgery

EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsATLANTA -- Braves reliever Joe Jiménez is expected to sit out much...

Peralta picks up option with Padres, Kim declines

Peralta picks up option with Padres, Kim declines

EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsSAN ANTONIO -- Left-hander Wandy Peralta exercised his $4.25 millio...

Sports Leagues

  • FIFA

    Fédération Internationale de Football Association
  • NBA

    National Basketball Association
  • ATP

    Association of Tennis Professionals
  • MLB

    Major League Baseball
  • ITTF

    International Table Tennis Federation
  • NFL

    Nactional Football Leagues
  • FISB

    Federation Internationale de Speedball

About Us

I Dig® is a leading global brand that makes it more enjoyable to surf the internet, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information.  Today I Dig® attracts millions of users every month.r

 

Phone: (800) 737. 6040
Fax: (800) 825 5558
Website: www.idig.com
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Affiliated