When the first #oneleague tweets started coming out, we re-tweeted a WHW from November where we had addressed the difficulties of merging two leagues with entirely different business models and philosophies. We were hoping that would be enough. After all, there’s not much new to say, is there?
But over the last two weeks, the One League movement has garnered enough attention that despite the fact that both the CWHL and the NWHL saw new champions crowned this past weekend, not calling it Story of the Week seemed disingenuous.
Now that the CWHL has joined the NWHL in paying players, everyone who wanted to make “when will you pay players?