Hilary Knights Famous Career for Team USA will end in Milan

Hilary Knight laughed when her brother raised the idea for the first time to stay in Milan through the Olympic Games.

“Yes, right,” she said, remembering her reaction. “There is no way.”

She was already north of 30 – five months after the Beijing games in 2022, she was 33 years old and tried her hands to get the PWHL on the way. The idea of registering for a further four years of the meal seemed to be a lot.

And yet she prepares herself here on Milan. It will be her fifth and she is now announcing the final Olympic Games.

“It’s time,” Knight told USA Sports. “I grew up in this program and there was only so much. I am in peace. I just have the feeling that it is time. And I am grateful that – hopefully I can stay healthy – and everything – I can go out if I would like to be done. This is such a privilege that only a handful of competitors get competitors.”

Knight, who turns 36 in July, is still one of the best players in the world. At the World Championships of the last month, where the US women Archrival Canada defeated the title (Knight’s 10^THFor those who count, she directed the Americans with nine points. Already the career guide in points and goals at the World Championships added the record of career as a career during the tournament.

Knight was also the PWHL leader this season with 29, and her 15 goals for the Bostoner fleet were the second most common in the league.

Impressive how Knights CV as a player as a player is to the 10 world titles, she is an Olympic champion (2018) and three-time silver medalists (2010, 2014 and 2022) -es is what she has done that will be her greatest legacy.

The sport doesn’t look as if Knight started playing. Heck, it is hardly similar as it looked five years ago.

The US women’s team now receives similar advantages and treatment of USA hockey as a men’s team because Knight and their teammates have threatened to boycott the World Cup. USA hockey also agreed to improve its development program, which means that little girls now have their own teams in which they can play.

The PWHL exists because Knight and the other top players of the game refused to accept the inferior professional leagues previously existing in Canada and the USA. In 2021 they organized their own “Dream GAP” tour to emphasize the lack of professional opportunities for women and to increase interest in a new league.

“You recognized how much responsibility we have just chewed,” said Knight. “You are just like:” Wow, I am responsible for this thing.

“Sometimes she really felt defeated because” I believe in this thing. I know what we are capable of “, but it convinces other people to see it and have the same vision,” she said. “And luckily we could find that.”

In 2022, the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association, of which Knight was a founding board member, announced a contract with Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter and Billie Jean King for a new league.

The PWHL started in six cities last year and has already exceeded the 2 million mark in the total participation. It was so successful that two expansion teams will be added next season.

“I understood what the sport gave me and I wanted to give other people. I wanted other people to have the same opportunities I had,” said Knight. “Obviously, countless work always has to be done, but I think we now have a career path. Investments will now take place on the basic level. Girls are invested.

“Not only me, but we all have changed it, and that’s why I feel very fulfilled from this point of view and hope that these barriers are less and less when we go forward.”

Thinking about your legacy is not at the top of Ritter’s list of favorite. Honestly, it is nowhere on this list. This is partly the reason why she now announces that this will be her last games, hoping that it will no longer be a story in Milan. Or at least no focus.

Because Knight has never played hockey to seem to shine. They even have all these titles meaning because they are a reflection of the work it needed to get her and the people who played next to her.

It is these things that Knight will miss.

“There is something to say about the border and the appreciation of risking the strongest part of itself and working together as a group and navigating the ups and downs before a tournament,” she said. “These are the memories that will appear for me.”

That and the pranks.

Anyone who has ever been part of a team knows the Shenanigans who continue when they spend so much time together. The prank calls for family members in the States. The rubber bands that can transform bidet change into Super Soakers. The cups of water stayed in the helmets when they sit on a shelf.

“Only add small moments of lightness, because at the end of the day it is stressful to represent your country on a world stage!” Said Knight.

Knight is still planning to play in the PWHL to Milan, but she knows that part of her career will soon end. She enjoyed the radio work that she did for ESPN and could see how she did more.

She would also like to put together a group of investors and one day buy an NHL team. (Also a PWHL team, but it’s still a single owner league.)

“There is just so much to do and so many options in the women’s room that are really exciting,” said Knight.

Partly because of her and what she has achieved, on and off the ice.

At the moment there is still an Olympic Games. Again to represent the team USA. Another chance to win a title for your country.

“It took a while, but I think I’m very happy with it,” said Knight. “I had an incredible career on the Olympic stage. And (in Milan) I will have the same mission and the same purpose, and that is to win an Olympic gold.”

Follow the USA Today Sports Columnist Nancy Armor on social media @Nrarmour.

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