“There were a lot of reasons to sign in Buffalo,” Beauts forward Emily Janiga says, “but most importantly was that it was home.
The 2017 Isobel Cup champion returns to her native city after spending a season as a hockey ambassador with the CWHL’s Vanke Rays. The league recently announced that it would be contracting Vanke in preparation for its twelfth season, and Janiga stated she’d been home since mid-June trying to decide what to do.
“I’ve known [about contraction] basically since I came home. For the past few weeks, I’ve been negotiating with the Beauts.