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" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "After New York dropped their next matchup with Toronto, 3-2 on Jan. 5 at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, they now head to the New York Islanders home for a Wednesday night showcase against Team Montreal at 7 PM. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "This game will be the first of three games for New York at UBS Arena. " } }, { "id": "8c2gwfft-xlpc60gn", "type": "embed", "data": { "service": "twitter", "source": "https://twitter.com/NYIslanders/status/1744896697460015119", "embed": "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1744896697460015119", "caption": "" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Following Tuesday's morning skate, The Hockey News asked the current Islanders about how cool it was to have Team New York playing in their barn and see the women's league take off. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"That'll be cool. I should make it over there. We'll see,\" Mathew Barzal said. \"It's nice to see them getting some good exposure here, with the new league and whatnot, because they deserve it.\"" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "It's been a long time coming for the PWHL, and it's great for the game, as Bo Horvat said. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"I've seen a lot of stuff on social media. They're getting a lot of fans, a lot of good publicity, as they should,\" Horvat said. \"They have a lot of good hockey players out there. And for them to be playing at UBS -- and hopefully, they have a good crowd -- I think it's special. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"It's great for the game. It's great for young women and girls and even young boys to see them having success and doing what they're doing out there. So, it's awesome.\"" } }, { "type": "image", "data": { "file": { "url": "https://thehockeynews.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjAzNTMyMTg1MjEzMzQ3NjM2/gdw2eeaxuaan8v_.jpg" }, "caption": "" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Islanders Matt Martin, who runs a children's hockey camp every summer, understands the importance of having a professional women's league and what that means for the younger generation. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"There's a lot of girls in my camp, and women and girls love this game as much as we do, and they deserve a platform to play it,\" Martin told THN, who also has two daughters of his own. \"Whether or not my girls play hockey or not, just to be able to look up to female hockey players and watch them have success in whatever the profession is...It doesn't even have to be a sport at all. It's just seeing women in those fields have success in whatever they're doing, so good for all girls.\"" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Martin doesn't know all the rules the PWHL has implemented but said he loves the rule that if a shorthanded goal is scored, it wipes out the opponent's power play. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"I did see that one, and I thought that was pretty cool. You know? It's a pretty cool thing,\" Martin said. Then he looked over to stalemate Kyle Palmieri." } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": " \"Palms, did you see that rule? If you score a shorthand goal in the female's game it ends the power play. I thought that was pretty cool.\"" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"Cool for penalty killers,\" Palmieri said before THN; Palmieri and Martin agreed that Simon Holmstrom would love that. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Brock Nelson knows the trials and tribulations the women's game has had to go through to get to this point. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"It's huge. I think for the women's game it's great. And I think they've been working on it for quite some time now to kind of grow the league,\" Nelson said. : They've had a couple of different leagues to try and help them with the sport, so to have them here now, and I saw they set a record back at Excel Energy Center, too, so I'm sure that was an exciting game, and for the women that play hockey and all the little girls that look up to them, it's huge.\"" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Nelson's wife, Carly, played college hockey at the University of Wisconsin, and he knows this means a lot to her and to their family. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"It's cool. She played, and she dedicated a lot of her life to the game and loved it. And now we have kids that are doing the same thing. And our older two, a boy and a girl, are getting into it now. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"So just to have that something that they can look up to and to see how much they love it. It's huge. So, to share that with all of them and Carly, it's awesome.\"" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Islanders head coach Lane Lambert was thrilled to talk about the PWHL and Team New York, as he knows a few of the girls because of playing with their dads. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"It's outstanding. Certainly, I wish them all the best. It's exciting,\" Lambert said. \"Bobby, Carpenter's daughter Alex plays for them. I played with Bobby Carpenter. There's a Brooke Hobson, a defenseman. She's from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, which is 57 miles from where I grew up. So it's exciting to watch and pay attention, and I wish them all the best.\"" } } ] }

Islanders Thrilled for PWHL Players Ahead of New York's First Game at UBS Arena