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Interim CWHL head says single women’s league a priority
NHL involvement will be huge for reputation and prestige as well as more fan awareness.
”That’s the goal: to get to a point where we have all the [female] players in one professional league,” Jayna Hefford told The Canadian Press. ”Without too much detail, I think the NHL being involved is the best-case scenario. How soon that can happen … I don’t know if that’s a one-year thing, a two-year thing.”
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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has not indicated the NHL will be proactive in helping set up a single league.
”Having two leagues makes it more difficult for us to get involved,” Bettman said earlier this year on Calgary’s 960-Radio. ”If there were no leagues, we’d probably start one under the NHL umbrella, and I’ve told both leagues that. But I have no interest in competing with the existing leagues.”
NWHL Commissioner Dani Rylan has said only that she is always interested in discussing any proposal to improve women’s hockey.
NHL involvement will be huge for reputation and prestige as well as more fan awareness.
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