Breaking: Women's hockey dealt another huge blow

First the CWHL folds, then the NWHL boycott... now this.

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Breaking: Women's hockey dealt another huge blow
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The sport of women’s hockey has officially come to a crossroads. The Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) folded just a week ago and almost immediately after a group of 200 professional players, including Marie-Philip Poulin, Hilary Knight and Brianne Jenner, announced a boycott for the 2019-20 season in a dramatic attempt to establish a single, economically viable professional league.

Earlier today Pegula Sports & Entertainment, owners of the Buffalo Sabres, announced that they’re severing their relationship with the NWHL and will no longer operate the league’s Buffalo Beauts.





The Beauts are the NWHL’s model franchise and the team’s goaltender Shannon Szabados describes them as, “probably the best run professional woman's hockey team in the entire world." According to a report from ESPN’s Emily Kaplan, the Beauts players had access to skills ice (which other NWHL teams didn't have), nicer equipment, catered meals & help with local housing.

Suffice it to say, this is another HUGE blow for a league that’s already teetering on the brink of disaster. 

Source: Emily Kaplan