Chloe Primarano becomes the first female to be selected in the WHL Bantam Draft

[Fatass]

That's because Football is all about the QB and QB's know how important their offesnive line is.

Those O linemen are incredible. Huge guys with quick feet and super smart. Next to the QB I’m thinking the O line guys are the smartest on the field. And that’s in a league where guys are all pretty darned smart.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

1+5

55 points (24 goals) in 14 games

 

[austin63867]

Could she go the BCHL route before Minnesota? She's too good for U18 and has 2 years remaining. Seems like a longshot to stick in the WHL. BCHL is a friendlier league for smaller offensive players and her brother is already playing there. A few teams near Kelowna.

 

[Stealth1616]

Could she go the BCHL route before Minnesota? She's too good for U18 and has 2 years remaining. Seems like a longshot to stick in the WHL. BCHL is a friendlier league for smaller offensive players and her brother is already playing there. A few teams near Kelowna.

If they implement a rule where nobody could hit her.. she might be able to do it.

Still way too high off a jump for her with the physicality. She likely just starts college early, which I think is still an option

 

[BondraTime]

Could she go the BCHL route before Minnesota? She's too good for U18 and has 2 years remaining. Seems like a longshot to stick in the WHL. BCHL is a friendlier league for smaller offensive players and her brother is already playing there. A few teams near Kelowna.

She could try, wouldn’t go well. Her brother is 2 years older, 70 pounds heavier, 6 inches taller and better.

She could try male AAA, likely wouldn’t go that well either, but would be an absolute massive, massive upgrade in competition.

The talent level between female U-18 and the BCHL is similar to the difference between midget house league and the CHL.

 

[Mathieukferland]

Could she go the BCHL route before Minnesota? She's too good for U18 and has 2 years remaining. Seems like a longshot to stick in the WHL. BCHL is a friendlier league for smaller offensive players and her brother is already playing there. A few teams near Kelowna.

As talented as she is provincial Junior A teams still destroyed the full Canadian women’s team in Olympic preparation, so I’m going hazard against her playing provincial Junior A, espcieally the best league of that type in Canada

 

[Bonin21]

I would think she'll try to combine 11th and 12th grade and just do one more year at that level.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Could she go the BCHL route before Minnesota? She's too good for U18 and has 2 years remaining. Seems like a longshot to stick in the WHL. BCHL is a friendlier league for smaller offensive players and her brother is already playing there. A few teams near Kelowna.

If her future is playing women, at this age, she should be playin against women. Or else she will have to completely adjust her game for how to play against 20 year old men, which won’t help her as much as when she adjusts back to playing women in college.

 

[JKG33]

It's hilarious to me that anyone thinks a woman could compete in a men's league. Men and women are built different. Even a man smaller than she is will likely have significant strength advantages. Add in that mediocre teams of teenage boys routinely beat the best of the best women's teams... I don't see how anyone can seriously think any woman playing in a high level men's league makes sense.

 

[austin63867]

I'm tired with this "boys vs girls" team argument.

I know women's teams would lose to men's teams, yet she would be playing with all men but somehow that argument seems relevant every time the thought of her playing at that level comes up and it's just ridiculous every time. A girl playing in a boy's league has zero to do with girls vs boys teams whatsoever and I'm done hearing the comparison.

 

[Chadstudsky]

Where can she play against women for better competition?

 

[JKG33]

I'm tired with this "boys vs girls" team argument.

I know women's teams would lose to men's teams, yet she would be playing with all men but somehow that argument seems relevant every time the thought of her playing at that level comes up and it's just ridiculous every time. A girl playing in a boy's league has zero to do with girls vs boys teams whatsoever and I'm done hearing the comparison.

You being tired of it doesn't make it irrelevant.

But even if you want to play pretend that it doesn't matter, the biological differences between men and women certainly do matter. She's not going to have the strength to win battles vs men smaller than her (let alone most of the league that's bigger), and one bad hit could have far more disastrous results

 

[Cenzhin]

I'm tired with this "boys vs girls" team argument.

I know women's teams would lose to men's teams, yet she would be playing with all men but somehow that argument seems relevant every time the thought of her playing at that level comes up and it's just ridiculous every time. A girl playing in a boy's league has zero to do with girls vs boys teams whatsoever and I'm done hearing the comparison.

Wickenheiser in her prime struggled mightily in tier 3 men's leagues in Finland and Sweden.

 

[SpezDispenser]

Really love to see this.

 

[Petey O]

She'd probably actually look okay in something like the BCHL. The problem is, as stated before, is the physicality. I wouldn't want to see her get laid out by a man. Could really injure her.

Unless they design some sort of pads that can withstand heavy punishment and protect the wearer, I don't see how a woman could ever stick it in a contact league.

 

[Northerner]

Have any of you watched NCAA women's hockey lately? Check it out, then post back here and be honest.

Tell me your honest opinion on the product you see out there.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

5 points for team Canada vs team Germany

 

[ponder]

2 years ago she played in the boy’s CSSHL U15, and was 2nd in scoring among dmen on her team. This is elite U15 men’s hockey, a very common path to the WHL - like from the last draft, Bedard, Danielson, Benson, Cristall, Wood, etc. all played in the CSSHL. She absolutely had the skill to compete with same age CSSHL players then, and I think she still has comparable skill. There are plenty of U18 CSSHL players who don’t have skating, hands and shots this good:



With that being said, if she was to go back to playing against guys next year, she’d have to play U18 hockey. U18 is a massive jump in size, physicality, etc. from U15, players are getting reasonably close to fully grown men at 17, while they were definitely still boys at 14. I do think she has the skill, but the physicality would be risky to say the least.

She is certainly too good for CSSHL women’s U18 hockey already, she’s got 57 points (including 24 goals) in 15 games, leads the league in scoring by a ridiculous margin (20 points) despite playing D, and having fewer games played than most. If she stays in this league, it’d be even more ridiculous next year. It’d be cool to see her try men’s CSSHL U18 next year, but there would be quite a big size/strength difference between her and almost all the other players in the league, she’d be at a pretty significant risk of injury.

 

[coooldude]

Unless they design some sort of pads that can withstand heavy punishment and protect the wearer, I don't see how a woman could ever stick it in a contact league.

1. The PWHL is a contact league, you just have to be hitting in order to play the puck or win the puck. Kind of like expanding the interference rule so that hits that would be legal in a men's hitting league might not always be legal in the PWHL.

2. Women play all kinds of full contact sports around the world. Women's rugby, water polo, and even soccer to a point are pretty physical.

She would still be at a heightened risk of injury in a men's full contact league, just like any smaller player or a 15-16yo boy who has a ton of skill but hasn't fully matured into adult male strength, but to say she couldn't stick it in the league or should be protected from herself is I think a step too far.

 

[JKG33]

1. The PWHL is a contact league, you just have to be hitting in order to play the puck or win the puck. Kind of like expanding the interference rule so that hits that would be legal in a men's hitting league might not always be legal in the PWHL.

2. Women play all kinds of full contact sports around the world. Women's rugby, water polo, and even soccer to a point are pretty physical.

She would still be at a heightened risk of injury in a men's full contact league, just like any smaller player or a 15-16yo boy who has a ton of skill but hasn't fully matured into adult male strength, but to say she couldn't stick it in the league or should be protected from herself is I think a step too far.

The bolded is flat out wrong. Take a man and woman of similar heights and weights, and there's still big differences in muscle and bone structure. Men and women are different, that's just basic biology.

 

[coooldude]

The bolded is flat out wrong. Take a man and woman of similar heights and weights, and there's still big differences in muscle and bone structure. Men and women are different, that's just basic biology.

Yes, there are differences in muscle and bone structure (and bone density! maybe what you meant). Women are prone to different injuries, etc. But women do, indeed, play contact sports, and violent ones, and 16-18 year old boys at the very top end may be close to fully developed but none of this means she shouldn't be allowed to play in a boys contact league.

 

[Felidae]

So, is she supposed to be the next big thing in women's hockey? Best female hockey prospect since who?

 

[Atoyot]

You being tired of it doesn't make it irrelevant.

But even if you want to play pretend that it doesn't matter, the biological differences between men and women certainly do matter. She's not going to have the strength to win battles vs men smaller than her (let alone most of the league that's bigger), and one bad hit could have far more disastrous results

Are the biological differences between the worst male player and the best female really bigger than the biological difference between Zdeno Chara and Nathan Gerbe? Outliers happen. Not saying it'll be her but I don't doubt that it's possible for a female player to come in and be more effective than, say, Tanner Glass.

 

[Nfumass]

Are the biological differences between the worst male player and the best female really bigger than the biological difference between Zdeno Chara and Nathan Gerbe? Outliers happen. Not saying it'll be her but I don't doubt that it's possible for a female player to come in and be more effective than, say, Tanner Glass.

Tanner Glass is better then any female hockey player to ever live by a wide wide margin.

 

[HighLifeManIsHigh]

Are the biological differences between the worst male player and the best female really bigger than the biological difference between Zdeno Chara and Nathan Gerbe? Outliers happen. Not saying it'll be her but I don't doubt that it's possible for a female player to come in and be more effective than, say, Tanner Glass.

You clearly have no idea how good someone has to be to play in the NHL