Boston cwhl schedule

To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Get your calendars out! The NWHL —20 season schedule is here! Three of the five teams will also be in new homes. Opening weekend October 17 to 18 , has the defending Clarkson Cup champions, Boston Blades, taking on the Toronto Furies in a two-game series in Toronto. Brampton travels to Montreal to take on the Stars for another weekend two-game series. The full schedule :. Each team will play 12 home games.

The league is claiming they're creating and planning new events for fans to interact with the league, and players in a unique way. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The release also detailed a bit of what the season will look as well. The season will start later than it has in previous season, with a scheduled mid-November start. The playoffs will start mid-March, finishing two weeks before the start of the World Championships.

Thankfully, gear manufacturer STX appears to have stepped up and gotten Weber some new sticks. Where does the NHL fit in all of this? In a great article posted on Thursday , the New York Times details the struggles faced by the young CWHL, in terms of drawing fans and sustaining operations. More powerful, however, are the details about the trials the players themselves, many of whom have been Olympians on more than one occasion, face on a daily basis.

These are women who are truly dedicated to playing the sport they love. Players clean their own gear, work jobs, and go months without seeing their families, oftentimes for no pay. You'd think that with this kind of passion for the sport on display, the NHL would be all over it. You'd be very wrong. Contrast that with the NBA's treatment of women's basketball, another sport largely rooted in amateur competition. Early teams were owned by the league itself, with the NBA undoubtedly pumping a ton of money into operations.

Now, many of the franchises are independently owned. According to Sports Business Daily , several teams have recently posted profits. WNBA games are regularly televised, the league has several big-time sponsors and appears to be generally healthy. Because the NBA, recognizing an opportunity, sank money into getting the league off the ground, knowing it'd take a while. It's estimated that the NBA homepage is visited more than 20 million times per month.

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