Will Hitting Make Women's Hockey Safer?
The Total Female Hockey PodcastEpisode Notes
In this 12 minute episode, Coach Kim asks whether adding hitting into women's hockey actually makes the game safer AND faster?
She goes all the way back to her time playing professional hockey back in the early 2000s and cites the elimination of obstruction & interference from the game as a major turning for women's hockey. It helped scoring go up in the NHL but it led to many more injuries in the women's game.
Now the Swedish pro women's hockey league is reporting that concussion rates have gone down significantly since they added bodychecking into the league back in 2022.
What does this all mean for women's hockey in general and the development of young female hockey players across the globe?
SHARE: Listen, learn and share with any friends, teammates, coaches, parents and players who love the women's game and want to be a part of it's continued rise on and off the ice.
TOTAL FEMALE HOCKEY SUMMER CAMPS: Coach Kim ALWAYS focuses on teaching how to play the game with more physicality in all of her Total Female Hockey Summer Camps. She's got 3 weeks worth of camps in Toronto throughout August that are worth checking out if you want to play with more speed, scoring, physicality and confidence next season.
