Increases in pay should be commensurate with the gate receipts, and TV and merchandizing revenue.

If folks are tuning in and watching sappy Tim Horton flag waving commercials, buying up jerseys etc, then these players deserve their cut. Certainly a much bigger cut than the bureaucrats who make a career off of Hockey Canada's women's programs.

However if folks aren't tuning in and buying the schlock, then sorry ladies, you deserve no more or less than any other carded athlete competing in an unwatched sport