Boy, can this girls hockey team play

MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- The coaches were witnesses to the surprise. Having a girl or two on a youth hockey team is completely ordinary these days. But as the Colonials Pee Wee team skated out before games in their first season playing in the New Jersey Youth Hockey League, ponytail after ponytail took the ice and, invariably, a few eyebrows went up.

"I think they open eyes every time they take the ice," said Bill Kaufman, an assistant coach and parent. "It's sort of the David and Goliath story or the underdog story because it's a male- dominated sport."

Except that these girls are the ones winning. The Colonials, who are 14-2-6 in a 12-and-under Pee Wee B division made up primarily of boys, begin the playoffs this weekend. By and large, the team is the exception to the rule.

Women's hockey was added as an Olympic event in 1998. It has been more than 14 years since Team USA won gold in Nagano, yet even now girls who play hockey often have to blaze their own small trail in programs filled primarily with boys. Even though more than 67,000 girls play -- up from 2,500 in 1988 -- outside of hockey strongholds like Minnesota and the Northeast, there just aren't enough girls to field full teams in many places.
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You go girls! We got NOW!