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Girl has got game. Will be interesting to see where she goes with it. The ladies leagues always seem to be in flux but maybe by the time she reaches a pro age they'll have something solid setup.
 
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Just saw the clips. Wow some insane puck skills on display there.

Not saying she'll reach her minimum potential, but at minimum she has the potential to be the greatest female hockey player of all time.
 
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Hadoop said:
Just saw the clips. Wow some insane puck skills on display there.

At minimum she has the potential to be the greatest female hockey player of all time.
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LMAO...At minimum she has the potential to be greater than Wickenheiser. At maximum future Art Ross contender.

Somewhere in between that low and high.
 
GeeoffBrown said:
Hopefully, this at least results in a women's team that can challenge Canada and the US
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I mean her team lost 6-1 to Sweden and Sweden went on to get beaten 10-0 to Canada in the Gold Medal game. I would say it is still a ways away. The format of the tournament absolute aided in her putting up the points she did. I was just hoping Slovakia would get into group A for next season to see her go against Canada and USA but that isn't happening either.
 
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As a comparison, Marie-Philip Poulin (female Crosby) turned down an ECHL offer to play in Trois-Rivières this Summer. Could she dominate at this level? We'll never know.
 
waitin425 said:
LMAO...At minimum she has the potential to be greater than Wickenheiser. At maximum future Art Ross contender.

Somewhere in between that low and high.
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what are you smoking? could i not get what you are on...

maximum : greater what Wickenheiser,
other than that is sarcasm, lying to self or complete crazyness

it would be cool if one day it was real, but realistically speaking it will never happen, no matter how much you believe and want it to happen.

that said, good luck to her and for her career.
 
GeorgeLeafer12 said:
what are you smoking? could i not get what you are on...

maximum : greater what Wickenheiser,
other than that is sarcasm, lying to self or complete crazyness

it would be cool if one day it was real, but realistically speaking it will never happen, no matter how much you believe and want it to happen.

that said, good luck to her and for her career.
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I should have included the sarcasm emoji! Total sarcasm. I was quoting a poster who said at minimum she is the female GOAT. At MINIMUM!!! lol
 
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SimGrindcore said:
As a comparison, Marie-Philip Poulin (female Crosby) turned down an ECHL offer to play in Trois-Rivières this Summer. Could she dominate at this level? We'll never know.
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Think that was more of a publicity stunt.

She would get dominated at the ECHL level and it would border on unsafe
 
Stealth1616 said:
Think that was more of a publicity stunt.

She would get dominated at the ECHL level and it would border on unsafe
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Yeah people really can’t grasp the gap in talent. Canada and USA womens teams get beat by u16 boys teams. To be completely honest the best female hockey player on earth would struggle in the Federal Hockey League. Its just the reality of it.

But it is great for womens hockey that there could potentially be a new face of the game. It only helps grow the audience and sport as a whole
 
Stealth1616 said:
Think that was more of a publicity stunt.

She would get dominated at the ECHL level and it would border on unsafe
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Funny to bring up the ECHL. They had their all star game yesterday and they invited 2 female players, Sydney Brodt and Ann-Sophie Bettez from the PHF to play. Brodt had a goal in the ASG.
 
austin63867 said:
Funny to bring up the ECHL. They had their all star game yesterday and they invited 2 female players, Sydney Brodt and Ann-Sophie Bettez from the PHF to play. Brodt had a goal in the ASG.
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That's the difference, it's an all-star game. It's not a real game.

You just need to look at the best team in the world preparing (under their conditions, no hitting) for the Olympics in the AMHL in 2013-14 and 2017-18. Those teams won Gold and silver at the Olympics. They are ~.500 against groups of 15-17 year olds, of whom a large majority won't get to the CHL, without hitting. These are the top players in those games since being tracked.

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Some really don't seem to grasp the difference between the levels of the games between men and women, and the gigantic, grand canyon-esque difference hitting and physical play has.

These women are incredible, incredible hockey players. They cannot safely play, to a level that would keep them there, in a professional Men's league outside of a Div 3, and even then it's not something that is likely to occur.

Wickenhieser, who is the best of all time and knows more about hockey than 99.999999% of the world, went from scoring 155 points in 51 games in the Women league the 3 previous seasons to scoring 3 points in 21 games in the Swedish 3rd division. It's a gigantic, gigantic, nearly insurmountable gap between the two sexes.
 
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BondraTime said:
Some really don't seem to grasp the difference between the levels of the games between men and women, and the gigantic, grand canyon-esque difference hitting and physical play has.

These women are incredible, incredible hockey players. They cannot safely play, to a level that would keep them there, in a professional Men's league outside of a Div 3, and even then it's not something that is likely to occur.
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It's almost a different sport when hitting is not allowed. I've been saying it for years - we are doing a disservice to women's hockey by letting them play without bodychecking. It's not a hard concept and any male that starts playing hockey as an adult will understand that you can't just transition to a bodychecking league when you didn't grow up with it.

If we *truly* want to grow the game for women and give them an opportunity at the higher levels, we need to equalize the game and have both men and women play with the same rules.
 
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denominator said:
It's almost a different sport when hitting is not allowed. I've been saying it for years - we are doing a disservice to women's hockey by letting them play without bodychecking. It's not a hard concept and any male that starts playing hockey as an adult will understand that you can't just transition to a bodychecking league when you didn't grow up with it.

If we *truly* want to grow the game for women and give them an opportunity at the higher levels, we need to equalize the game and have both men and women play with the same rules.
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I agree they should be allowed to body check. But maybe that is something that women should be allowed to decide for themselves. It should not be imposed by men in high positions.
 
Nela is currently busy destroying another tournament. This time it's the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) which is for U16 girls.

Obviously the tournament is missing Canada, USA and Russia, but there is Finland and Sweden. Slovakia has beaten Finland 4-2 to secure the group win with Nela scoring 2 goals and 2 assists. Given the tournament structure, the group win sends them straight to the final against the winner of the other group (likely Czechia).

She has 6 goals and 5 assists in 3 round robin games. The whole Slovak team scored 12 goals in those 3 games, so she has basically willed them into the final. Her shot counts are also interesting: 9 shots against SUI, 9 shots against AUT, 12 shots against FIN.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any footage so here is a recap of all her goals from the recent U18 WC

 
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