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The NWHL season ended with a bang last weekend, and the whimpering started almost immediately afterward. Only moments after the Boston Pride raised the Isobel Cup, the NWHL broadcasters showed this graphic, which seemed to suggest that the infant league planned to expand into Canada.
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Commissioner Dani Rylan was close-mouthed about the graphic, but it fomented much talk among followers of women's hockey in the US and Canada, especially considering the inscription on the league's shining new trophy, which reads (in part): "This Cup shall be awarded annually to the greatest women's hockey team in North America.