{"id":249770,"date":"2026-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/the-2026-hockey-hall-of-fame-class-features-just-one-woman-the-gist\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"the-2026-hockey-hall-of-fame-class-features-just-one-woman-the-gist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/the-2026-hockey-hall-of-fame-class-features-just-one-woman-the-gist\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Hockey Hall of Fame class features just one woman | The GIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The GIST: <\/strong>The Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF) announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/bergeron-price-rinne-tkachuk-curley-and-burke-named-newest-hhof-inductees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its 2026 class<\/a> on Monday, a deserving group, but one that includes just one woman: the inimitable Cindy Curley. Stop us if you\u2019ve heard this before, but the road to Toronto\u2019s hallowed halls is paved with misogyny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udc90 Let\u2019s start by giving Curley her flowers: <\/strong>In her 17th year of eligibility, Curley is <em>finally<\/em> where she belongs. Her 23 points in five games at the 1990 World Championships is still an IIHF record, but Curley\u2019s legacy is bigger than a flashing red goal light: While playing, she represented what girls could be; in retirement, she\u2019s helped provide those opportunities through her work with USA Hockey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\ude21 Onto the HHOF\u2019s history of misogyny: <\/strong>A maximum of four male players and two female players are selected every year, an arbitrary number chosen by the selection committee. Men have enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/the-details-of-the-brand-new-pwhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">league stability<\/a> for decades longer, but that doesn\u2019t excuse the present-day discrepancy: The first women weren\u2019t even inducted until 2010, 65 years after the HHOF\u2019s first-ever class.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You might be wondering: Who is on the 18-person selection committee? Well, the group includes just two women, Cassie Campbell\u2010Pascall and Cammi Granato, the only two women to serve on the committee in its 79-year history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The committee has notably leveraged both women\u2019s slots just three times over those 16 years \u2014 the inaugural induction in 2010 and in both 2024 and 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1716705275141133'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/hockey-hall-of-fame-one-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GIST: The Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF) announced its 2026 class on Monday, a deserving group, but one that includes just one woman: the inimitable Cindy Curley. Stop us if you\u2019ve heard this before, but the road to Toronto\u2019s hallowed halls is paved with misogyny. \ud83d\udc90 Let\u2019s start by giving Curley her flowers: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}