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NWHL Announcement Event On Tuesday In Saint Paul

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thirdtime's . . . said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/sports/nwhl-cwhl.html
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What the American and Canadian players who are talking about getting together should do is find a way to use their influence to get the actual stakeholders in a room for negotiations. Reading the different things that have been written on #OneLeague, it seems the prevailing issue is the leadership of both leagues is too fearful of seeing their influence wane. I think the best thing they can do is to split the baby in that regard: use an entirely new brand for the unified league and keep both commissioners in leadership roles. Maybe split into a Northern and Southern conference and have Dani Rylan be in charge of the Southern and Brenda Andress head the Northern.

At least this article goes more in on Bettman's attempt to be Switzerland. If he was half the visionary that David Stern was, he'd be the one getting the stakeholders of the two leagues to the bargaining table.
 
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Scott_TG said:
What the American and Canadian players who are talking about getting together should do is find a way to use their influence to get the actual stakeholders in a room for negotiations.
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Some of us thought the NWHL was going nowhere when it first started. If you could get more people in a phone booth than typically showed up at Conte, Matthews, Walter Brown and Bright combined, what’s the point of the Pride? And those names! Riveters? Beauts?? Whale??? GO WHALE! ???? Patronizing, sexist or just plain inept, they seemed like clueless throwbacks to the days of “You’ve come a long way, Baby!” But the determination that led to the convergence of the boycott and Olympic gold was stunning. And why shouldn’t it be? This is women’s hockey, after all. This will happen in time.
 
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Scott_TG said:
I wholeheartedly agree with you that #OneLeague is the way forward. It would work great for the existing clubs, plus Bettman has implied that he's hoping to have the CWHL-NWHL issue resolve itself before the NHL gets involved with women's hockey the way the NBA went in for the WNBA.

They need to merge and fill out some more markets. Pittsburgh, DC, Chicago and Detroit come to mind.
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Pitt and DC? Chicago and Detroit a little better, but none are hotbeds of college hockey, much less the women's game.
 
drewkal said:
Pitt and DC? Chicago and Detroit a little better, but none are hotbeds of college hockey, much less the women's game.
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That's why I included Madison in my list and of course the Twin Cities is a no-brainer. Plenty of good girls U19 hockey support in the Detroit and Chicago areas. That support would translate over to any professional women's hockey franchise. I think we all agree that the absence of D1 college hockey in Michigan is a travesty.
 
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drewkal said:
Pitt and DC? Chicago and Detroit a little better, but none are hotbeds of college hockey, much less the women's game.
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Pittsburgh has a good presence in the women’s game. It has Robert Morris, there’s the Penguins Elite girls program, and Olympian Brianne McLaughlin is kind of an ambassador for women’s hockey in the area, running a girls hockey camp.

Comes down to financial issues in the end and travel as Shelfit and others have stated, but I think Pittsburgh is a reasonable expansion option.

DC is more of a growth market, but it has geography going for it, plus a ton of jobs which is also a consideration for players. I think a city without a college team, but having an appetite for hockey, could be a well supported market.
 
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Lindsay said:
Pittsburgh has a good presence in the women’s game. It has Robert Morris, there’s the Penguins Elite girls program, and Olympian Brianne McLaughlin is kind of an ambassador for women’s hockey in the area, running a girls hockey camp.

Comes down to financial issues in the end and travel as Shelfit and others have stated, but I think Pittsburgh is a reasonable expansion option.

DC is more of a growth market, but it has geography going for it, plus a ton of jobs which is also a consideration for players. I think a city without a college team, but having an appetite for hockey, could be a well supported market.
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If one of the goals is to have a pro league that is at least as strong as an average D1 college team, than I'm not so sure about expansion to areas without a player pool.
 
EastFan1 said:
If one of the goals is to have a pro league that is at least as strong as an average D1 college team, than I'm not so sure about expansion to areas without a player pool.
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Yeah, that’s a good point. I was thinking that if it’s a desirable enough city that players would move to an NW locale, within reason.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
Hefford came right out and said she wants a merger.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/article-interim-cwhl-commissioner-jayna-hefford-eyes-unified-womens-hockey/
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Hefford has no (visible) political baggage and hopefully Rylan approaches a potential merger with a clean sheet. The main advantage the CWHL has is a pre-existing relationship with the NHL. Let's hope the egos can get tossed aside quickly and they do the right thing.
 
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From today's Star Tribune:

"Maplewood native Allie Thunstrom has signed with the Minnesota Whitecaps for the 2018-19 season, the National Women's Hockey League has announced. The winner of the state's Ms. Hockey award in 2006, Thunstrom scored a school-record 228 goals at North St. Paul High School before playing for Boston College, where she finished her college career with 86 goals and 138 points. Thunstrom, 30, played for the Whitecaps in 2011-12 before spending the past few years as an elite speedskater."
 
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