The significance of the game and its venue was not lost on the players.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s funny because people ask, \u2018are you surprised?\u2019 I\u2019m not surprised that we sold out MSG,\u201d Knight said after the game. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the caliber of play that we have, our fan base, the product that we put together, the work that we do when the lights aren\u2019t bright.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo finally have this moment, and I hope it\u2019s not a moment, I hope we are back here, it\u2019s truly incredible. Even if we were getting booed or cheered for, it didn\u2019t really matter. It was an awesome moment for women\u2019s hockey and I hope those moments continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Torrent head coach Steve O’Rourke echoed Knight\u2019s sentiment saying the result didn\u2019t matter when \u201cyou think of the gravity of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fillier said after the game her “pinch me” moment was during the National Anthem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think standing on the blue line during the (national) anthem, I\u2019ve never been in a building like that during the anthem with the fans so engaged, cheering for the Sirens, mid-anthem,\u201d Fillier said. \u201cI had goosebumps looking up in the building and it felt like the longest five minutes of my life. I was so excited for my job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the game, Los Angeles Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten and King, who are both on the PWHL Advisory Board, spoke about the emotions of taking over the \u201cWorld\u2019s Most Famous Arena.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the women\u2019s sports are on its way, finally. \u2026 I\u2019m pre-Title IX. This is so exciting, you have no idea for me,\u201d King said. \u201cThese kids come up to us, parents come up to us, grandparents come up to us. Some of them are crying and thanking all of us for doing this so, and they just, they can dream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The significance of the game and its venue was not lost on the players.\u00a0 \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s funny because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-186005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}