NWHL bubble tournament brings women’s hockey back to the spotlight

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Starting Saturday, the NWHL will play its first games since the pandemic brought the sports world to a halt last March

. In lieu of the usual six-month-long season, the league will play a single bubbled 14-day tournament that will conclude with the Isobel Cup final on Feb. 5.But the NWHL isn’t the only home for top female hockey players in North America, which highlights the confusing divide that persists in the women’s game.

At Lake Placid, with no fans attending, the women will play at Herb Brooks Arena, site of the United States’ famous Miracle on Ice success at the 1980 Olympics. Their games will stream on Twitch with the semis and final also broadcast live by NBC Sports, the first women’s pro hockey games to appear on a major national TV network in the U.S.

Jayna Hefford, the head of the Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association, is worried investment in women's sport will dry up because of the economic impact of COVID-19.So with the PWHPA events still on hold, and much of the world sitting at home sitting in front of their screens right now, the NWHL has the spotlight in Lake Placid. This bubble comes at an interesting time for female sports.

Digit Murphy came on as Six team president and head coach, an outspoken veteran of the women’s game who coached Brown University’s team and CWHL clubs in Boston and China.

 

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