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NWHL Women's Pro League

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Didn't the CWHL start with basically the same promises? While the league is slowly moving along, it is still a ways away from lofty goals like this. Who's paying for it?

A quick look at the Chelsea Piers Connecticut Arenas where one of the teams will play suggests it is no bigger than the Joan Snyder rink at Winsport (only 200 seats), so it clearly isn't 9 games worth of gate revenue that is coming up with $270K per team in salaries. Without people watching it, sponsor money isn't going to be there either. So who is the deep pocketed individual who's decided to give their money to this, but not to the CWHL?
 
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Hux said:
I doubt that the job would pay enough to even entice her to fly in for games, let alone move. My bet is the Boston Blades fold and Coach Murphy moves to the Pride.
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This is great for women's hockey but there are a lot of questions still to be answered. The biggest thing people should be talking about is this: The best of the best in women's hockey is playing a game tomorrow and we can't get any coverage in the U.S. TSN is covering the game in Canada. We have a major problem with the popularity of the sport still here in the U.S. When the gold medal game was played last February, The ratings were off the charts for NBC. The popularity was hot. Same two teams going at it again in the worlds and we can't even get a computer feed. Can anyone explain that to me?
 
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ICEBOX said:
This is great for women's hockey but there are a lot of questions still to be answered. The biggest thing people should be talking about is this: The best of the best in women's hockey is playing a game tomorrow and we can't get any coverage in the U.S. TSN is covering the game in Canada. We have a major problem with the popularity of the sport still here in the U.S. When the gold medal game was played last February, The ratings were off the charts for NBC. The popularity was hot. Same two teams going at it again in the worlds and we can't even get a computer feed. Can anyone explain that to me?
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FWIW, there is a large lunch spot in downtown Minneapolis that has a huge TV people can watch as they eat lunch, it was not tuned to the Canada-US game, nor could I find any TV on at lunchtime tuned to the game. State of Hockey my azz
 
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pokechecker said:
FWIW, there is a large lunch spot in downtown Minneapolis that has a huge TV people can watch as they eat lunch, it was not tuned to the Canada-US game, nor could I find any TV on at lunchtime tuned to the game. State of Hockey my azz
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Why didn't you ask them to turn it on?

Often what they are tuned to is not the result of a customer's request and they will gladly change it if asked.
 
Blackbeard said:
Why didn't you ask them to turn it on?

Often what they are tuned to is not the result of a customer's request and they will gladly change it if asked.
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True. A group of us were at a sports bar in Manchester, NH in '09 and we asked if they would turnn on the US-Canada game. They put it on two screens at the end of the bar and by the end of the game they had half the screens in the placed tuned in.
 
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Hux said:
True. A group of us were at a sports bar in Manchester, NH in '09 and we asked if they would turnn on the US-Canada game. They put it on two screens at the end of the bar and by the end of the game they had half the screens I the placed tuned in.
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The popularity of women's hockey in the Olympics is remarkable. The gold medal game got better ratings than the Stanley Cup.
 
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pokechecker said:
FWIW, there is a large lunch spot in downtown Minneapolis that has a huge TV people can watch as they eat lunch, it was not tuned to the Canada-US game, nor could I find any TV on at lunchtime tuned to the game. State of Hockey my azz
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Does it get TSN? If not, there's nothing they could tune it to that would show the game, so it's not entirely their fault.
 
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