With less than two months until the season is expected to start, and less than a month before training camps, the CWHLPA and the CWHL are still ironing out the finer details of both the salary structure and the upcoming season.
But the league, meeting the goal set out to pay players for the 2017-18 season, has already jumped over a major hurdle by confirming the overall structure that will see players receive a stipend for the first time.
“The idea of player compensation was mentioned but not fully addressed until the league could provide concrete information on numbers,” said Markham Thunder goaltender Liz Knox, who co-chairs the CWHLPA with Calgary Inferno defender Hayleigh Cudmore.