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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...

Dodgers, Chelsea FC owner might be the uniting force to save women's hockeyThere are two famous rivalries in North American women’s hockey: Canada vs. the USA, and the PWHPA versus the PHF. One rivalry will continue in perpetuity at every World Championship and Olympic Games, while the other is dead....

Women’s hockey reforms, for better or worseA pro women’s hockey league in North America has been something of an ungettable dream. Or at least having one unified one has been. There was the CWHL in Canada, but that folded. There was the NWHL, which became the PHF, but it ran alongside the CWHL and never with it. When the CWHL folded, the PWH...

PHF goes into new era, maybe, with a bang on a good night for women’s sports

While NC State and UConn were producing the college basketball game of the year in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, professional women’s hockey was also having a blinder on its biggest night as well....

Never a silver lining in this rivalry

Talk your shit, Natalie Spooner. ...

It ain’t been a banner year for women’s hockey (and men’s ain’t been so hot either)

It’s not as if women’s hockey wasn’t facing enough obstacles in normal times. It fights for attention and funding at every level just like women’s sports have always done, and that’s a fight that is still very much a hard one. So what it doesn’t need is to have that be joined by self-inflicted wound...

After lying with racists and sexists, the NWHL thought it would try transphobes, too

The NWHL was able to finish its Isobel Cup belatedly two weeks ago, as the Boston Pride beat the Minnesota Whitecaps. The league had something of a false start in the winter with their attempted bubble in Lake Placid that didn’t really bubble, the league was able to complete the playoffs in Boston....

Si Woo Kim goes full 'Tin Cup' after breaking his putter

If you break your bat in baseball, you get a new bat....