The NWHL’s 2021 bubble season in Lake Placid opened on Saturday afternoon with a matchup between the Metropolitan Riveters and the Toronto Six. It was the first game in franchise history for the Six, but the headlines were stolen by a Rivs team that looked like they mean business at Herb Brooks Arena. Leila Kilduff…
A long overdue bit of news came down on Tuesday as the NWHL and NBC Sports announced that NBCSN would exclusively broadcast the 2021 Isobel Cup Semifinals and Finals in February. The NWHL will play an abbreviated season inside a bubble in Lake Placid, New York with all six teams competing. The Semifinals will take…
The NWHL officially announced their 2020-21 season outline on Wednesday. The league announced that the upcoming 2020-21 season will be delayed and will not start until January, 2021. In addition, the league announced that a full season of 20 games will be played by each team, with the Isobel Cup Playoffs coming to a conclussion…
By now, if you at all care about women’s hockey, you’ve seen the recent report from The Victory Press detailing life in the NWHL from former players. Predictably, the piece created a lot of debate on Twitter. To the surprise of no one, emotions were high in those debates. If you have not read that…
On National Teachers Day, teacher and NWHL all-time leading scorer Jillian Dempsey has re-signed with the Boston Pride for the 2020-21 season. During the 2019-20 season, Dempsey was named co-MVP of the league. While playing in the NWHL, she teaches fifth grade in her hometown of Winthrop, Mass. A founding member of the NWHL, she…
Entering its sixth season of existence, the NWHL announced they were expanding north of the border to Toronto last week. It has the potential to be a perfect spot to have a new franchise. Toronto is recognized as the center of the hockey world. Not only that, they already have natural rivals with the Buffalo…
Over the past several years, the rise of professional women’s sports, including women’s hockey, has been on the rise. With the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) entering its sixth season of existence, they decided to pull the trigger on expanding to Toronto. This move signifies that women’s hockey is growing and there is a demand…
The National Women’s Hockey League is holding the first and second rounds of their 2020 Draft tonight and things are already heating up. Just a few hours before the draft, the Boston Pride have acquired the first overall pick from the new Toronto expansion franchise. The move has been rumored for days now, and was…
There will be sports once again this evening. The NWHL will hold its annual Draft tonight and tomorrow night. Rounds 1 and 2 will take place tonight, while rounds 3-5 take place on Wednesday night. Unfortunately, the event is not available on TV. You can, however, tune in on Twitter. Draft picks will be players…
The best defender in the NWHL is coming back for another season with the Boston Pride. It was announced on Friday that the reigning NWHL Defender of the Year, Kaleigh Fratkin, is coming back for the 2020-21 season. Fratkin joins McKenna Brand, Lexie Laing, and Christina Putigna as returning members to a Pride team that…