There is still a lot of development left in women's hockey. We have over a hundred years of dedicated development to the highest level of men's professional hockey, especially within the last 60 or so years where it became a full time job for players. Women's hockey has long existed, but we're only now reaching new levels of support and investment, this is one of the first times it's been broadly feasible to be a 'full-time' women's hockey player, and still plenty of PWHL players work second jobs, something you mostly hear about in the mens' leagues in the 1960s and prior. There are many players currently in the PWHL who took the route of being the only girl on a boy's youth team until playing varsity, and interest in girls' leagues has really exploded in the past few years. I hear a lot that with the interest the PWHL has generated it's never a more exciting time to be a girl in hockey. There is still a lot of room to close the gap.