Olympic Goalie May Quit Hockey With Lack of Women's Pro League

The goalie for Finland's women's Olympic hockey team says she will probably retire from the sport if she isn't allowed to begin playing in a competitive league after the Sochi games, and she's not ruling out the male leagues.

Noora Räty explained that she's “24 years old, out of the college, single, and the money doesn’t grow [on] trees.”

Räty called on the U.S. or Canada to put together a competitive league for women's hockey, since she said the sport can't grow without either country (or both countries together) launching a pro league.

“That is the next critical step that our sport needs to take or our sport will never be respected like it should be," she wrote in an open letter, according to BuzzFeed. "Asking players to work full-time and then training like a pro athlete at the same time is just too much and unfair.”