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NHL could learn from new women's hockey league playoff and draft formatsThe PWHL has accomplished a lot even though it’s only been in existence for a few months. It has set records for attendance. It has sealed the cracks in women’s hockey that had formed. It has given momentum to women’s hockey below the international level, which had been stuck in neutral thanks to sp...

NWHL’s Riveters, on heels of Barfstool trolling, hit by COVID and knocked out for seasonThe NWHL’s bubble has burst....

Will Shutdown Move NHL Further Away From Women's Hockey?Most every sport faces more questions than simply when will it come back. The obvious ones are about TV revenues and salary cuts/deferments. Others are issues of scheduling next season or drafts etc. But perhaps none will see their future reshaped quite like women’s hockey, and perhaps none will be ...

Hair-Pulling Considered Rude In Every Sport But Football

In the midst of play a few weeks ago, WNBA player Liz Cambage’s arm got all wrapped up in her opponent Kalani Brown’s hair. At first the tangle seemed to be an accident, but soon there was pushing and shoving and intentional hair-pulling, and Cambage walked away from the encounter with a flagrant fo...

National Women's Hockey League Announces Progress Toward Paying Living Wages To Players

The National Women’s Hockey League, facing more than a little uncertainty about its future amid upheaval across North American women’s hockey, reached an agreement Thursday with its players association on an improved compensation package for players headed into the league’s fifth season of existence...

The Best Names Of The WHL Draft

Oh, friends. It’s here. The day we’ve been waiting for; the first true sign of spring. The Western Hockey League Bantam Draft, for 14- and 15-year-olds. A window on what Canadians west of Ontario and Americans west of the Mississippi were naming their children in 2004....

200 Women's Hockey Players Pledge To Boycott North American Pro Leagues

In an announcement today, 200 women’s hockey players—among them Team USA stars Hilary Knight and Kendall Coyne Schofield—pledged to boycott all North American professional women’s hockey leagues until those leagues start paying players livable wages....

What's The Future Of Women's Hockey In North America? (Update)

The disbanding of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, and the narrowing of North American women’s hockey back down to one professional league—the USA-based NWHL—is not exactly surprising, even if the sudden announcement on Sunday may have come as a shock. For a quite a while now, the people in a pos...