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• Women's hockey championship in the limelight

• Boston University shows hockey link with CTE

Women's world championships

There's a lot of excitement when it comes to the women's side of the game.

The leagues are getting the media attention they deserve and brands are starting to get interested in engaging with a more family-friendly audience than the regular beer-guzzling, pick-up truck driving, online-casino-gambling crowd that is traditionally watching hockey.

And that's not me throwing shade at the traditional hockey crowd (Bud Light anyone?) let's agree that those can all be fine and noble things to consume in moderation, but there's a reason behind every advertising investment.

I've heard from an insider source that there MIGHT be a deluge of corporate $$$ that will go into Women's Hockey by the end of 2023. It's not a coincidence that the Hockey News just unveiled it's women's hockey coverage.

Testy Bettman vs NPR interview

Let's use some very very very basic logic. 

• Humans skate fast

• Humans hit and get hit by other humans in hockey

• Human brains are not meant to hit or get hit at 100 miles an hour

Pretty straightforward, no?Well not everybody agrees , even after scientific research supports this very very basic logic. 

The Boston University School of Medicine has discovered that each year of hockey played increases your chance of getting Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) a degenerative brain disease linked to the repetitive head impacts by.... 23 % !!!!

We'll get to better hockey player safety, it'll just take a bit more time, but we'll get there.

That’s it for this edition of the Hockey of Tomorrow newsletter. As we continue to highlight the best, most diverse, and most interesting, off-ice hockey stories, we would appreciate any feedback you might have.

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