Team USA Women's Hockey Player Appears to Drop Cell Phone on Ice Mid-Shift, Phone Shatters to Pieces

That's just like a woman, innit? Can't even survive a bloody period without their god damn phone. Would hate to catch yourself tied up in front of the net screening the goalie (i.e. the perfect selfie opportunity), and not have your phone on you to capture the moment for mems. Not at the Women's Worlds. Maybe if women's hockey got the coverage it deserved, then the players wouldn't be forced to take matters of photography into their own hands. But until that happens, someone is gonna have to document that the game actually happened. Someone has to grow the game. 

To be fair to Team USA's Caroline Harvey (if that is indeed her phone, which is what it looks like), she could have had a potential emergency she needed her phone for. Just in case. Women's hockey doesn't necessarily pay the bills. Maybe her full-time job is nurse, and she was on call. Maybe she was in the queue for Beyonce tickets. Maybe she was pregnant. There's a million reasons you might need your phone on you during the Women's Worlds Quarterfinals.

Ok sorry that's enough bad jokes about women. I've watched the video several times trying to see if the phone could have possibly came from anywhere else other than a player on the ice. Maybe it came from a ref. Maybe a fan had it sitting along the glass and it slipped through the boards somehow. But it sure doesn't look like it. That's a phone that came directly off a player's body. 

I will say, I've played beer league hockey with guys who keep their phones on them. They'll stick it in their compression shorts. I'm not really sure why. It always seemed like an unnecessary risk. But at least in beer league, it makes sense why what's happening on the ice might not be a persons #1 priority in life. But I'd think the World Quarterfinals would be a pretty big moment for anybody playing on Team USA. Big enough that it'd require your undivided attention. Having a distraction like a cell phone on your person seems a little nuts. Unless she has a coach in the stands sending her videos of her shifts. I guess couldn't hurt to get a little birds eye view of what went down on the ice after a big shift. Unless it's that, or she has a pending family emergency, that's gonna be a tough one to explain to coach after the game.

It also does seem like it could be a psycho hockey dad move to force your daughter to keep her phone on her so he can text her not-at-all-helpful advice during the game. "Move your feet!", "Shoot the puck", "If she tries that shit again take off your skate and try to stab her". Things of that nature. I guarantee there's at least at few hockey dad's in the world who do exactly that. 

I guess if this is something Team USA's coach would punish a player for, shattering your thousand dollar phone to pieces is a pretty good punishment in its own right. Especially considering the tournament is being played in České Budějovice, Czechia. Over 4,000 miles away from home. That's tough. She's gonna have to print out her boarding pass on the way home. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. 

Good win today though, Team USA. We're onto the Semifinals vs Czechia. Fuck you, Czechia. Rock, flag, and eagle.