The Connecticut Whale finished the inaugural NWHL season second in the league. Ever since then, they've struggled and have finished last in the league for two consecutive seasons, including the recently-completed 2017-18 campaign.
This season saw the Whale win just three of 16 games, a franchise-low for them, and put
After two consecutive seasons of reaching the Isobel Cup Final, including one championship win, the NWHL's Boston Pride this season were knocked out in the playoffs following a season that saw them finish third in the league.
A Pride roster that was depleted of its Olympic team members came into
Iona Rothfeld finally pauses. For 40 minutes, she has spoken passionately, vividly and with evident frustration about the problems surrounding women's football in Chile and the work that will be necessary to right them. She has barely taken a breath. Her coffee has gone cold.
But now she needs a
Jamie Lee Rattray couldn't describe it, but she could feel it coming all along.
"There's no words for this," she said after her Markham Thunder defeated the Kunlun Red Star, 2-1, in overtime on Sunday to capture the Clarkson Cup. "I mean, you look at our season
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In the three seasons of the NWHL's existence, three teams have now won the Isobel Cup. The Metropolitan Riveters won their first championship in franchise history with a 1-0 defeat of the Buffalo Beauts Sunday at the Barnabas Health Hockey House.
In front of a sold-out crowd, the
