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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.
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
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,
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
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
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