SabresBaltimore Posted April 5, 2019 Report Share Posted April 5, 2019 Man who the hells knows what will happen now, apparently the investor who backed out of the CWHL wants to take over and revive the league with a new board:https://www.theicegarden.com/2019/4/5/18297226/reports-former-cwhl-investor-interested-in-league-graeme-roustan-investor-nhl It also sounds like there is still some unfavorable feelings between many CWHL players and the NWHL based on how things went down in the first two years of the league: https://www.theicegarden.com/2019/4/5/18292808/womens-hockey-in-north-america-is-no-stranger-to-turbulence-nwhl-cwhl As an aside, I do love seeing 3/5 top scorers from my Alma mater. I'm really hoping Loren Gabel ends up with the Beauts next season. However with all the flux right now it's anyone's guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 https://www.theicegarden.com/2019/4/8/18151010/cwhl-to-nwhl-theyre-probably-not-shipping-down-to-boston-visas-athletes-immigrants A good article explaining the difficulty Canadian womens players face playing for the NWHL. It's never easy or simple, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabresBaltimore Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 Just now, PromoTheRobot said: https://www.theicegarden.com/2019/4/8/18151010/cwhl-to-nwhl-theyre-probably-not-shipping-down-to-boston-visas-athletes-immigrants A good article explaining the difficulty Canadian womens players face playing for the NWHL. It's never easy or simple, is it? Yeah, that article is a little too detail on the legalities for me. Trying to follow it all made my head hurt. My bottom line take aways from it were: The same kind of VISAs used by the NHL are harder to use here because they wouldn't allow those players to both play in the NHWL and have another job unrelated to hockey. That's a pretty big dealbreaker for most players since they don't get paid enough to live on, unlike the NHL players. It also wouldn't allow those players to bring their families with them, another big dealbreaker. So I feel like a lot of Canadian players will end up not playing because they simply can't afford to and there would be a much more limited number of slots if they go from the 5 Canadian teams the CWHL had to two teams the NWHL is trying to expand to. The NWHL did have some Canadians, including a few on the Beauts, but I'm not sure the exact details of those. We're close enough to Canada that maybe they were living and working their primary in Southern Ontario and simply commuting? I'd be curious to find that out. I know at least one of the Beauts got her American citizenship this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 You got the gist of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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