Womens+hockey

= "Every day is a great day for hockey." =

|| The start of something new! In 1955 an eight year old named Abigail Hoffman registered for a new hockey league in Toronto. The league was intended only for boys. Abby cut her hair short and nick-named herself Ab, and no one noticed that her birth certificate said that she was a girl. For three months she wore her gear to the rink like all of the other players and became a stand-out defensive player on the St. Catherine's, Ontario, Tee-Pees. She was even selected to play on an all-star team. Then the news broke that she was a girl and she became a celebrity in the United States and Canada, but that didn't change the fact that the league wouldn't let her play anymore. At the age of nine Abby was forced to retire and her pioneering led to the creation of girl's hockey leagues. In present day the Abby Hoffman cup is awarded to the national champions of Woman's hockey.
 * Mario Lemieux**

It didn't start there!

The first known film of women on skates, features Isobel Preston, who was the daughter of Lord Stanley, playing hockey in the winter of 1890.

|| Stand-out teams Teams: In 1894 a group of girl's at McGill university went to the rink for weekly hockey games under the following conditions: 1. There had to be a guard at the dressing room door 2. No men could watch the game 3. They had to be dressed warmly in long skirts and warm sweaters.

The Preston Rivulets was a team that starred from 1930 to 1939. They won ten championships and six national titles. The team started because at the end of the softball season they wanted to keep together, so they started to play hockey. The boys in the neighborhood told them that they could not play, but by the end of the team's stretch, they went down as the best team ever in women's hockey.

In 1998 at the Olympic games in Nagano, Japan, women's hockey was added as an event. The six teams that played were Canada, U.S, Finland, China, Sweden, and Japan. The US team won 3-1 and they were the first women's hockey team to win a gold metal. ||

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