When Kendall Coyne Schofield told her husband, Michael, that U.S. women's national hockey team players were going to appear in EA Sports' NHL series, he reacted as one would expect a Los Angeles Chargers offensive lineman would.
"My husband's first question: 'What's your [player] rating?'" she said, laughing.
"And I said, 'Well, what's yours?'"
It's a conversation that wouldn't have happened before NHL 22, which is the first game in the series to feature playable women's national teams.
"A lot of us grew up not seeing role models on a consistent basis.