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Hawkeye
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 760 Location: Houston, TX
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Posted: 06/21/15 7:08 pm ::: New women's league |
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The National Women's Hockey League starts in October 2015 with the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale and New York Riveters.
Unlike the CWHL, these players will be paid, not great but paid. Each team will have an 18-player roster with a salary cap of 270,000 (15,000 avg salary) so a part-time gig for now.
I'm hoping it does well but with only 4 teams playing October to March, it needs more teams. It needs a Canadian footprint. It would be nice to see teams out of the Northeast---Minnesota would be nice. Media coverage is going to be tough at first.
A four letter league is hard to crack into the media--and having Women's in your name seems quite redundant--at least the league didn't put Professional in their name.
It will have my 100% sports junkie support. Those that live in the team markets, I urge you to get out there and be seen.
League site is spartan right now but I do expect more additions closer to puck drop. http://nwhl.co/
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PamelaT
Joined: 06 Sep 2012 Posts: 448 Location: Earth, North America, USA, Georgia
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Posted: 07/01/15 4:00 pm ::: |
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I'm not sure who names their team the "Whale" (it is only a short step to "whales" and that doesn't sound very nice), but that logo with the whale with the hockey stick is pretty cute...
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StevenHW
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 10979 Location: Sacramento, California
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 66773 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 07/01/15 5:33 pm ::: |
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Hopefully this means a return of the greatest sneakers ever, the Stadia Whale...
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Queenie
Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 18013 Location: Queens
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Posted: 07/01/15 8:59 pm ::: |
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We're going to try and catch the Riveters, but first we have to figure out where they're playing. Originally I heard out on Long Island, but now they're saying they're going to be in Brooklyn.
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Happycappie25
Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 4174 Location: QUEENS!!!!
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