The United States of America women’s hockey team is showing no mercy at the Winter Olympic Games.
For every team that has faced Team USA, including Canada, it’s been a haunting experience they soon won’t forget.
5-1 Checiza.
5-0 Finland.
5-0 Switzerland.
5-0 Canada.
6-0 Italy.
5-0 Sweden.
Since giving up a second-period goal in their first game against Czechia, the Americans have been perfect. They haven’t given up a goal in 331 straight minutes of play.
Be it men or women, the American women are far and away the most dominant hockey team at the Winter Olympics.
And while they’ve been given their flowers by fans and pundits alike, there’s an ongoing debate over whether the NBC team is doing the best job of covering the unstoppable women’s team.
Sports podcaster Marissa Tandon’s recent video on the matter has spread across the online hockey community, igniting the discussion on whether the national broadcaster is doing a good enough job promoting what could be a historic Olympic champion.
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“Team USA women’s hockey has been absolutely dominating at the Olympics,” Tandon began her video on YouTube. “But unfortunately, we need to talk about the way they’re being covered.”
Tandon elaborated that the main issue was that in every game the USA women have played, the NBC commentary team has tried to connect it back to the men’s team.
She pinpointed how analysts were discussing the NHL’s return to the Olympics for the first time in a decade while the American women were playing. And even though some of the players’ backstories were tied directly to other American male athletes rather than their own professional careers.
“We spent actual game time mic’ing up the Tkachuk brothers and interviewing them on top of gameplay,” she said. “And the questions weren’t even about USA women’s hockey. Most of the questions were about the brothers themselves.”
NBC has one last USA women’s hockey game left to broadcast, and it’s the biggest one. The American ladies look to extend their shutout streak and win Olympic gold on Thursday against Canada.
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