February 27, 2026 • 6 mins
We discuss the stark difference between men's and women's hockey. Only in year 2 for women!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Female athletes are very upset, butcher, I know they should,
thank you, Steve Brown. Apparently, now female hockey players are
upset because they say they're not making enough money. I
didn't even know there was a professional female hockey league. Second,
(00:23):
how would you know their girls, their hockey players. They're
in that big UNI with all the pads and all
that junk, So, like, how do you know they're women
other than the fact that they're saying their I don't know.
So apparently the many females playing in the Professional Women's
(00:43):
Hockey League, their top player makes one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That's pretty good. I mean, that's really good money.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The average salary for the Women's Professional Hockey League is
fifty eight thousand, not money to really sneeze at, and
the minimum salary is thirty eight thousand in the PWHL
Professional Women's Hockey League. The NHL's minimum salary is seven
(01:14):
hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's a minimum.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, So now the women hockey players are upset because
their league, which is now two years old, has not
made enough money to be able to pay the gigantic
hefty salaries. But you know, why would why would you
(01:38):
let that get in the way of something to screech
about women's salary? Is not even listen to this, one critic.
Women's salary is not even ten percent of the minimum
men's salary. Professional women's hockey League's top player makes one
(01:59):
hundred grand. Their minimum is thirty eight k to play hockey,
and some women are now saying that this should enrage everybody.
Are you enraged, Peyton? Are you are you enraged at this?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You're I would love to go play hockey for fifty
thousand dollars a year. That would sound incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, all, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean, you practice, you got facilities, they're probably feeding
you to they're taking care of your travel. Oh you
know it's not just play any games, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, So the women's league and you know what's funny
about this, And I've had this conversation with many in
the athlete world, So doesn't this just kind of reinforce
every stereotype, right, you know, the old the old saying,
and I love women, love you, we love you, we
(02:53):
love you. Give an inch, they want the whole yard stick.
We want to play professional hockey. Okay, we'll start a
professional women's hockey league. Here's your league.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm not making a million a year. It's unfair.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I didn't even know there was a professional women's hockey league.
Maybe they should put their money into promotion so that
people know. But then again, women's hockey will never draw
a big crowd. You want to know why, I'm a genius,
by the way. You want to know why because they
can't have them playing in their underwear. Guys will go
(03:31):
to those women's football games. Why because they put them
in their underwear and really weird, perverted guys will go
to the game. Well, oh, oh, she's so hot. Yeah,
did you see that girl? She just busted out on
a thirty yard run. That was amazing. She looks amazing. No, no, no,
did you see the speed? Did you see the cuts?
(03:53):
I just saw those shirts? Or the lack thereof yeah,
the lack thereof. I always feel bad because women want
I mean, they obviously don't care they're doing it, but
it just you know, if you want, if you want
to watch women play professional football, why do you got
to put them in their underwear? Because that's what'll get
weird o guys to go. So women's hockey is never
(04:16):
going to draw a very big crowd because they can't
have them playing in their underwear. Now, if they could
come up with some sexy outfits for hockey, that would
be different. Maybe just maybe just pad up the goalie
and let the rest of them skate around and in
their bikinis, and then guys would probably show up to
(04:36):
see that. But I mean women in a regular hockey uniform.
And please, I'm not trying to take away from the
beauty of what women are and how wonderful you are
and how important you are. But we're talking marketing here.
If you want to draw men to girls sports, you
gotta bring the sexy. That's why guys go to watch
(05:01):
girls do pretty much anything. Like you've never heard any
guys say, man, I was watching this girl well the
other day, and I mean she could lay a bead.
You know, you don't know, you don't see that. You know, see,
I was working with a girl. She was a plumber.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That girl, she like, had a whole bathroom piped up
in like an hour.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
She was amazing. You don't hear that.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But if you you know, if a guy says, dude,
I was working with this girl plumber and she was
wearing like the overalls with like with one of the
shoulder straps off, and they were really short and everything,
and with those work boots and oh see that there,
I've just now I know, guys are going dude, you're
(05:47):
totally exposing us for what we are.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We're guys, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
God made us and put us on this earth to procreate,
and so that's what we do. We just as good men,
learn to subdue those passions and make light lifelong commitments.
But you're not gonna get guys to go to girls
hockey games, not until you put them in their underwear,
(06:14):
except for the goalie wouldn't want Maybe the goalie would
be in their underwear but still have the pads. Now
that might be cool. And of course the hottest ticket
in the whole arena would be behind the goal.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
All right, that's a pretty good analysis right there.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
That you don't get that analysis on your regular sportshole
talk station, you know, or they're doing numbers and junk
like that. Let's get to the real meat of the
matter here, and that's what we do on The Chris
Baker Show.
Female athletes are very upset, butcher, I know they should,
thank you, Steve Brown. Apparently, now female hockey players are
upset because they say they're not making enough money. I
didn't even know there was a professional female hockey league. Second,
(00:23):
how would you know their girls, their hockey players. They're
in that big UNI with all the pads and all
that junk, So, like, how do you know they're women
other than the fact that they're saying their I don't know.
So apparently the many females playing in the Professional Women's
(00:43):
Hockey League, their top player makes one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That's pretty good. I mean, that's really good money.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The average salary for the Women's Professional Hockey League is
fifty eight thousand, not money to really sneeze at, and
the minimum salary is thirty eight thousand in the PWHL
Professional Women's Hockey League. The NHL's minimum salary is seven
(01:14):
hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's a minimum.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, So now the women hockey players are upset because
their league, which is now two years old, has not
made enough money to be able to pay the gigantic
hefty salaries. But you know, why would why would you
(01:38):
let that get in the way of something to screech
about women's salary? Is not even listen to this, one critic.
Women's salary is not even ten percent of the minimum
men's salary. Professional women's hockey League's top player makes one
(01:59):
hundred grand. Their minimum is thirty eight k to play hockey,
and some women are now saying that this should enrage everybody.
Are you enraged, Peyton? Are you are you enraged at this?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You're I would love to go play hockey for fifty
thousand dollars a year. That would sound incredible.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, all, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean, you practice, you got facilities, they're probably feeding
you to they're taking care of your travel. Oh you
know it's not just play any games, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, So the women's league and you know what's funny
about this, And I've had this conversation with many in
the athlete world, So doesn't this just kind of reinforce
every stereotype, right, you know, the old the old saying,
and I love women, love you, we love you, we
(02:53):
love you. Give an inch, they want the whole yard stick.
We want to play professional hockey. Okay, we'll start a
professional women's hockey league. Here's your league.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm not making a million a year. It's unfair.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I didn't even know there was a professional women's hockey league.
Maybe they should put their money into promotion so that
people know. But then again, women's hockey will never draw
a big crowd. You want to know why, I'm a genius,
by the way. You want to know why because they
can't have them playing in their underwear. Guys will go
(03:31):
to those women's football games. Why because they put them
in their underwear and really weird, perverted guys will go
to the game. Well, oh, oh, she's so hot. Yeah,
did you see that girl? She just busted out on
a thirty yard run. That was amazing. She looks amazing. No, no, no,
did you see the speed? Did you see the cuts?
(03:53):
I just saw those shirts? Or the lack thereof yeah,
the lack thereof. I always feel bad because women want
I mean, they obviously don't care they're doing it, but
it just you know, if you want, if you want
to watch women play professional football, why do you got
to put them in their underwear? Because that's what'll get
weird o guys to go. So women's hockey is never
(04:16):
going to draw a very big crowd because they can't
have them playing in their underwear. Now, if they could
come up with some sexy outfits for hockey, that would
be different. Maybe just maybe just pad up the goalie
and let the rest of them skate around and in
their bikinis, and then guys would probably show up to
(04:36):
see that. But I mean women in a regular hockey uniform.
And please, I'm not trying to take away from the
beauty of what women are and how wonderful you are
and how important you are. But we're talking marketing here.
If you want to draw men to girls sports, you
gotta bring the sexy. That's why guys go to watch
(05:01):
girls do pretty much anything. Like you've never heard any
guys say, man, I was watching this girl well the
other day, and I mean she could lay a bead.
You know, you don't know, you don't see that. You know, see,
I was working with a girl. She was a plumber.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That girl, she like, had a whole bathroom piped up
in like an hour.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
She was amazing. You don't hear that.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But if you you know, if a guy says, dude,
I was working with this girl plumber and she was
wearing like the overalls with like with one of the
shoulder straps off, and they were really short and everything,
and with those work boots and oh see that there,
I've just now I know, guys are going dude, you're
(05:47):
totally exposing us for what we are.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We're guys, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
God made us and put us on this earth to procreate,
and so that's what we do. We just as good men,
learn to subdue those passions and make light lifelong commitments.
But you're not gonna get guys to go to girls
hockey games, not until you put them in their underwear,
(06:14):
except for the goalie wouldn't want Maybe the goalie would
be in their underwear but still have the pads. Now
that might be cool. And of course the hottest ticket
in the whole arena would be behind the goal.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
All right, that's a pretty good analysis right there.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
That you don't get that analysis on your regular sportshole
talk station, you know, or they're doing numbers and junk
like that. Let's get to the real meat of the
matter here, and that's what we do on The Chris
Baker Show.
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