Link: https://thehockeynews.com/womens/college/ncaa-discussing-move-toward-body-checking-in-womens-hockey

The NCAA is looking to expand their definition of legal body contact moving toward body checking in women's hockey while maintaining a focus on skill, puck possession, and player safety.

I like that there's less checking (and fighting!) in women's hockey than men's, but I also know this puts me in a rather small minority and most players seem to be in favor of letting women be rougher

According to the NCAA's recent committee recommendations, NCAA women's hockey is looking to "Restructure Rule 94 to provide clarity on legal body contact and illegal body checking. Guidance will be provided to allow legal contact on parallel pursuits, end-wall pursuits, forward angling, corner defense, and 50/50 puck battles. Illegal methods continue to include overt extension of the shoulder, arm or torso, opposite direction hits, and driving through opponents."

Same sport, same rules. We need some good checks and jersey pulling.

If we are talking about CTE, hockey is low on that list. I would worry more about taking a stick to the face.

Ah sorry, I didn't mean to imply we should have two sets of rules. Definitely same sport same rules, I meant I find the women's game flows in a way I find more fun to watch because there are fewer stoppages in play, so I'd prefer we converge on a single set of rules closer to the pwhl rules than the nhl rules. But that's just me and I don't play -- the gals say they wanna hit each other, so let em do it. My strange opinions come from my many years of watching soccer before coming to hockey, and the fact that I'm still pretty new to hockey.