A Young Hilary Knight Told Her Grandma She'd Play in Games Before Women's Hockey Was Olympic Sport
Hilary Knight.Photo: Meg Oliphant/Getty Nothing — not even the non-existence of the event she’d compete in — could stop a young Hilary Knight from dreaming of Olympic glory. The hockey player, now 32, says her mom, Cynthia Knight, told her that as a little girl, she “turned to my grandmother and I was like, ‘I’m playing hockey in the Olympics.’ And at that time women’s hockey wasn’t in the Olympics....