The US women’s national hockey team, which is boycotting the world championships in an ongoing dispute with USA Hockey over equitable compensation and support, met Sunday night.
The players issued a statement:
“We remain united in our resolve to bring positive change to the sport we love. We are hopeful that at tomorrow’s meeting of USA Hockey’s Board of Directors, the members will agree to the terms that those at the negotiating table in Philadelphia saw as a reasonable path forward. Those terms reflected 15 months of negotiations and significant compromise by parties on both sides. . . . This agreement has the potential to be a game changer for everyone.”
USA Hockey has been contacting players, some as young as 16, to learn their availability to play as a replacement team.
Octagon agent Allan Walsh sent out a Tweet Sunday: “Word circulating among NHL players that American players will refuse to play in men’s World Championships in solidarity with the women.”