When the IIHF Women's World Championships in Nova Scotia were abruptly canceled on April 21 -- just one day before Team USA was supposed to travel to Canada -- many players felt it was another case of women's hockey being treated as an afterthought.
"A lot of people have asked, do you think this is a case of women versus men, what women get versus what men get?" U.S. veteran forward Brianna Decker said. "I'm not one to always turn to that; I don't draw conclusions, I don't speculate. But in this situation, this never would have happened if it was a men's tournament.