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Deep Blue Sea: Hockey is for everyone

The National Hockey League (NHL) and NHL Players Association (NHLPA) have taken another step in growing the greatest game on the planet.

As the NHL and NHLPA’s admirable, year-long Hockey is for Everyone diversity and inclusion celebration (recently highlighted by the newly minted Gender Equality Month initiative) continues, we’ve been given yet another reason to applaud their efforts (and on International Women's Day, no less):

As part of the year-long celebration of #HockeyIsForEveryone, the NHLPA and @NHL have announced the establishment of the NHL & NHLPA Female Hockey Advisory Committee, introduced amid the first-ever Gender Equality Month campaign.