In the history of the NHL--and do note that I am specifying the NHL here, because that's what this game is based on--the number of women players can be counted on the fingers of a single hand, with fingers to spare. None of the games played were regular season, only pre-season exhibitions.

Now I'm not going to say that there aren't women interested in playing hockey. There's actually a professional women's league, not to mention national Olympic teams, and of course the minor leagues undoubtedly have a number of them. But that aforementioned professional league? Only 7 years old, and has the same number of teams; for comparison, the WNBA currently has almost twice as many teams and is (IIRC) around 30 years old. So women aren't exactly beating down the doors to get out on the ice here, and the ones who do play either aren't interested or capable of getting a slot on an NHL team. Which, again, is the league that this game is based on.

So this is basically forced inclusion, shoehorning a member of a special category into a space that isn't for them, for no greater reason than the need to do something and receive the appropriate accolades from the usual suspects.