By JOHN WAWROW, AP Hockey Author
The USA ladies’s hockey crew has a date with Taste Flav in Las Vegas in July to rejoice its gold medal victory from the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Below the heading “IT’S HAPPENING,” the rapper posted a word on his X account on Thursday, saying he’s internet hosting a “She Got Game” weekend event from July 16-19 in partnership with MGM Resorts. The publish stated the occasion was being held to honor the ladies’s hockey crew and different feminine athletes, with particulars to comply with. The message featured an image of the U.S. ladies’s hockey gamers celebrating in a circle.
A publicist for Taste Flav confirmed the occasion with out offering additional particulars.
The ladies’s gamers labored on their very own to just accept the invitation, with out enter from USA Hockey, an individual conversant in discussions instructed The Related Press. The individual spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the talks had been personal.
The individual added that whereas the crew is happy to attend, it’s unclear if the complete 23-player roster might be available due to potential scheduling conflicts.
The crew has but to find out whether or not to go to the White Home after USA Hockey cited logistics and journey points in politely declining President Donald Trump’s invitation to hitch the U.S. males’s gold medal-winning crew at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
Flav is a long-time supporter of ladies’s sports activities and attended numerous Olympic competitions this month. He posted his invitation on Monday, shortly after the ladies turned down the journey to Washington.
“If the USA Ladies’s Hockey crew needs an actual celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some good dinners and exhibits and good instances,” he wrote. “I’m positive I can get a resort and airline to assist me out right here and rejoice these ladies for actual for actual.”
The ladies’s crew was initially scheduled to fly commercially to New York on Monday, however was compelled to reroute via Atlanta due to a snowstorm within the Northeast. The timing and storm made it tough for the ladies to alter plans as they returned to their Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League and school groups throughout the nation.
The PWHL schedule resumed on Thursday with Montreal taking part in at New York following a month-long Olympic break, whereas school gamers open their convention playoffs this weekend.
In his tackle, Trump stated plans had been within the works to have the ladies’s crew go to the White Home, although it’s unclear when that might occur, USA Hockey stated. The earliest the crew may journey to Washington could be in late spring after the conclusion of the PWHL season.
The president’s invitation got here late Sunday, when he referred to as to congratulate the boys for his or her 2-1 overtime win over Canada. The ladies’s crew was nonetheless in Milan, three days after additionally beating Canada 2-1 in extra time.
In talking to the boys’s crew following their win, Trump stated: “We’re going to should carry the ladies’s crew, you do know that.” He later joked that if he didn’t prolong the invitation, he would in all probability be impeached.
U.S. ladies’s captain Hilary Knight on Wednesday referred to the remark as being “distasteful and unfortunate.”
“I feel simply the way in which ladies are represented, it’s an incredible educating level and actually shines gentle on how ladies ought to be championed for his or her superb feats,” she stated.
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