Los Angeles Kings Ice Girls? Give Me A Break

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• 1 - Laura

  Nov 07, 2009 at 1:19 am

  Someone has issues..go to the gym ..lose some weight and grow some self confidence. Also, concentrate on the important parts of hockey "the game".

• 2 - Jordan Richardson

  Nov 07, 2009 at 2:33 am

  The NHL and the league owners are incompetent when it comes to selling the game in the United States, which is why you get all sorts of weird ideas like the ice girls.
  
  Other franchises have them, but from what I know most of them don't. I don't know if any Canadian team does, save for maybe Calgary.
  
  The whole "clearing the ice" job usually goes to building/arena maintenance people or linesmen.
  
  Does this mean I need to lose some weight and grow some self confidence, Laura?

• 3 - ......

  Nov 07, 2009 at 10:34 am

  I agree With Jordan and umm Laura I think you need to read the....Personal attacks are NOT allowed... before making one to the Article Author I think your out of line there. It has nothing to do with the Ice Girls body the point she was making is that it is taking away from the "HOCKEY GAME" and I agree on that point it does Hockey is Hockey no matter if a male or Female plays the game good looking or not makes no difference it should be about the game it self and not the Ice Girls cleaning the Ice.

• 4 - DJ IceBerg

  Nov 07, 2009 at 2:28 pm

  Ice Girls? Ok, I guess it could be a nice diversion from the Lame as F*c% commercials that help pay for the TV broadcast. I agree they have NO place in the highlight reel, and they aren't as cool as a Zamboni, but they might be better looking. You never know, it might be an easy way to capitalize on gifts from the fairy godmother in the way of good looks, and it can at least pay for college. It might also be fun for the girls that want to do it. The point of any game is to have FUN, Right? So Keep yer Stick on the Ice, and protect yer goal. If they want to Have Ice Girls, that's nice I guess, I use that time to get food or more Beer. Girls are just window dressing, not the main event.

• 5 - El Bicho

  Nov 07, 2009 at 3:16 pm

  "I don’t go to see stupid girls prance around the ice."
  
  Unless you have can quote, no one goes to see the girls. Bit of a mountain out of a molehill here.
  
  And I would ask what's dumber, being an ice girl or your generalization that they all must be dumb because of their looks?

• 6 - BD

  Nov 08, 2009 at 3:44 pm

  Who cares? Who are these girls hurting? And don't give me the BS that they are hurting women's rights. Nothing that they are doing is taking away the rights (vote, drive, hold important positions in the workplace, etc) from the American woman. The majority of them are probably using their god given gifts to help them through college. Plenty of people do that. I highly doubt than any of these girls are planning on making this their career. If they have hopes of being "lawyers, doctors or even president," I don't think that being an Ice Girl during college is really change their minds about their aspirations. If I was a good looking female (neither of which I am), I would capitalize on my good looks and make as much money as I could off of them for as long as I could.
  
  I attend 10-12 Kings games a year. I'll admit when I first saw the Ice Girls last season I thought it was a little cheesy. But I soon realized that the NHL is simply playing to their core audience. As a male in my late 20's, I fall into that core audience. If I could make a comparison: I understand I'm not the WNBA's core audience. I've never been to or watched a WNBA game in my life and probably never will, but if I did I would understand that the WNBA had a different demographic to play to. If they had men with no shirts mopping the floor, I wouldn't give a rat's ***. Good for those men. Make that money. I'm a fat, greasy Italian... nobody would ever hire me to do that, but I wouldn't call it sexist or call those men dumb because they look better than me.
  
  I would just get over it. It's really not that big of a deal. The Kings and the NHL are doing nothing that the Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Cowboy and a number of other sports franchises and leagues have been doing for decades. The only criticism I have of the NHL is what took them so long to figure this out.
  

• 7 - blah

  Nov 08, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  I love that personal attacks are not allowed in the comment section but the article writer can personally attack these young women working as "Ice Girls" all she wants.

• 8 - Mikko

  Nov 17, 2009 at 9:34 am

  Some feminist women seem to have problems with women who decide to pursue their own goals instead of pursuing goals deemed worthy by feminists. (Your statement concerning your daughter is a good example, as if you should have the right to dictate her life and tell her what she should value in her own life.)
  
  Moreover, you're referring to a bunch of more "useful" occupations as if individuals are supposed to set their goals according to how they're valued by society.
  
  The only thing that should be considered offensive here is suggesting that a woman owes something to her gender and therefore must act in way as not to disappoint the collective.

• 9 - Robert M. Barga

  Nov 17, 2009 at 11:21 am

  These girls, quite simply, are cheerleaders
  i see nothing wrong with that