April 01, 2022
The Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) mission is clearly
stated on the front page of their website: "To promote, advance, and support a
single, viable professional women's ice hockey league in North America." There’s
more to the mission, but that's basically the gist.
May 28, 2021
When she returned to the University of Wisconsin to finish her master's degree
in 2018, Ann-Renée Desbiens figured she was done playing hockey. At 24 years old
and fresh off a silver medal at the Olympic Games, she simply wasn't enjoying it
anymore, and the
May 24, 2021
Exactly one week after Minnesota's Team adidas captured the U.S. crown for the
2021 Secret Dream Gap Tour, the Canadian leg ― a seven-day tournament taking
place in a "segregated environment" in Calgary, Alberta, and on nearby Tsuut'ina
Nation ― gets underway.
Due to pandemic restrictions,
April 28, 2021
Loren Gabel sits on the bench at the Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri,
breathing in and out, feeling the sticky floor beneath her skates, her legs
buzzing. She can hear the gentle hum of the crowd and the voices of her
teammates bouncing off
March 09, 2021
The PWHPA's Secret Dream Gap Tour resumed in Chicago last weekend, with another
set of games between Minnesota and New Hampshire.
After a pair of slower starts in New York, Minnesota's Team Adidas jumped to an
early lead on Saturday thanks to an opening goal
March 02, 2021
When players representing the Minnesota and New Hampshire regions of the PWHPA
stepped onto the ice at Madison Square Garden on Sunday evening, it had been 707
days since post-collegiate women's hockey was last broadcast live on national
television. The landscape of the sport has