Tonight's picks.
NSH row BOS
COL row BUF
DET row CAR
MTL row DAL
LAK row EDM
TOR otw FL
WSH row MIN
PHI otw OTT
NYR row SJ
ANA row VAN
AND Predicted back on March 14th when the game was originally scheduled..
WIN ROW over NJ
Later on I will publish the results of yesterday's "Second favorite/Most Hated" question... tons of responses on here, via twitter, Facebook and email...We will also have a random winner of a Hockeybuzz Shirt.....
More on that later...
Update 11:20:
It appears the two sides have come to a deal between the USA Women's Team and USA Hockey. Working on the details...
from earlier...
Sources tell me that the sixteen United States Senators, led by Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, have stepped up their support of the US Women's hockey team after little progress was seen in talks late last night.
Several NHL players and Teams have already stepped up and been very vocal...among them Flyers coach Dave Hakstol.
The extra pressure goes along with the following letter sent yesterday.. Today is perhaps the pivotal day in these negotiations...
March 27, 2017
Dave Ogrean
Executive Director
USA Hockey
1775 Bob Johnson Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Dear Mr. Ogrean,
As Senators committed to gender equity in all realms of American life, we write to express our serious concern with allegations raised by members of the U.S. Women's National Hockey Team regarding USA Hockey's inequitable allocation of resources to the women's hockey program and unjust treatment of national team members.
As you know, the women's team has chosen to boycott the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship games, citing faltering negotiations with USA Hockey regarding equitable pay and resources. Among other issues, the women note that USA Hockey expects female players to "train full time and compete throughout the year," yet pays them only $6,000 every four years, an amount that would put them far below the poverty line. The women's team is in the process of negotiating a four-year contract with USA Hockey that includes "appropriate compensation."
As the National Governing Body for ice hockey in the United States, USA Hockey is required by the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act to "develop interest and participation throughout the United States" in ice hockey and "be responsible to the persons and amateur sports organizations it represents." USA Hockey is also legally required to "provide equitable support and encouragement for participation by women where separate programs for male and female athletes are conducted on a national basis."
We are disturbed by reports from the U.S. Women's National Hockey Team suggesting that USA Hockey is not providing "equitable support" to female athletes. While USA Hockey provides its male athletes with a "seemingly endless" supply of hockey equipment, for example, female players are often expected to "buy their own." This "inequitable support for equipment, staff, meals, travel expenses, transportation, and publicity" is apparent at younger levels of the sport as well: while USA Hockey spends $3.5 million to support male youth athletes in its National Team Development Program, there is no parallel development program for women.
The U.S. Women's National Hockey Team has medaled in every Olympics since 1998, when Women's Hockey was first added as an Olympic Sport. The team has won gold medals at the IIHF World Championships for the past three years in a row. As Meghan Duggan, team captain, announced last week, the women's team has "represented our country with dignity and deserves to be treated with fairness and respect."
We urge you to resolve this dispute quickly to ensure that the USA Women's National Hockey Team receives equitable resources. These elite athletes indeed deserve fairness and respect, and we hope you will be a leader on this issue as women continue to push for equality in athletics.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts
Patty Murray, Washington
Dianne Feinstein, California
Patrick Leahy, Vermont
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire
Sherrod Brown, Ohio
Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts
Thomas Carper, Delaware
Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
Robert Menendez, New Jersey
Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii
Cory Booker, New Jersey
Bob Casey, Pennsylvania
Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
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