Girls hockey is so popular in the U.S. today that Hollywood has jumped on the bandwagon: The sport was a focal point of the 2024 Pixar hit Inside Out 2, a $1.7B box office smash that became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, scoring an Oscar nomination for best animated feature to boot. 
Yet the sport’s longest legacy might not be on the silver screen, but on surging ice rink real estate — if capital can keep up.