Ladies’s hockey Olympic aim medallist Sarah Nurse expressed optimism for the prospect of knowledgeable ladies’s hockey league in Canada on Friday afternoon.
Talking in a press convention at Hamilton’s Tim Hortons Area forward of the NHL Heritage Traditional, Nurse mentioned she was wanting ahead to having the world’s finest hockey gamers play professionally at house.
“We’re very shut and we’re very optimistic,” Nurse mentioned. “On this subsequent coming yr there’s been a lot momentum and a lot work being accomplished behind the scenes.”
“I do know that folks need to know extra they usually need to know particulars however there’s a lot occurring behind the scenes that doesn’t all the time get out and so I can simply say that I’m so enthusiastic about the place issues are wanting and the place issues are going.”
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Talking in Hamilton, Nurse acknowledged that her hometown can be an excellent surroundings for knowledgeable ladies’s hockey crew to thrive.
“I believe the prospect of a franchise in Hamilton, there’s a lot hockey right here,” she mentioned. “It’s a hockey hub for not solely boys hockey but in addition ladies hockey as nicely. So I believe it could be an excellent marketplace for that.”
Nurse additionally thought that the uptick in sponsorship geared in direction of ladies’s hockey has been an excellent sight for herself and her teammates.
“It’s been nice to see completely different manufacturers, completely different organizations, actually look to ladies’s hockey and say: ‘These athletes are marketable, we will push what they’re what they’re placing out,’” she mentioned. “And so I believe the elevated alternatives for myself and in addition to all of my teammates has been fairly superior.”
Nurse is concerned with the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey Gamers Associations and can participate within the PHWPA’s Rivalry Rematch of Beijing’s gold medal sport between Canada and the USA in Pittsburgh on March 12.
