Professional Women's Hockey Players Association

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... how hard players worked in order to get this league off the ground, and pitching it to Mark Walter and saying, "This is why it's important for women's hockey to have a league." I covered the process of how we got from- The original NWHL to the CWHL, back to the NWHL, to the PHF, to the PWHPA, to now the PWHL, this is not the first time there's been a trademark dispute in women's hockey.

There's a long history of very funny trademark stories [laughs] in the sport, but this is probably the most serious one.

Yeah, I'm just left feeling really sad and was curious to get your thoughts on it.

I would say college, that happened more.

And then obviously like... with pro starting in like 20, like even before that though, like when we were even in like our PWHPA and stuff, like he really had to focus on skills a lot because we didn't have team practices.

So he got pretty sick of skills, but we did them a lot.

And I would say for me, those skills are probably like wall play,

Yeah, it's honestly, it's a crazy experience.

Rebecca played in the PWHPA, and she would come out to my ice when I played in the PN and help coach.

I've kind of either been on the ice with her, or she's coached me in some capacity for the longest time.

So even when she played in Toronto, watching her on the ice, and she's such an incredible player, but she is more importantly the nicest person you'll ever meet.

Yeah, some of them did.

It's funny because I think I was one of the older players, me and Jill and Renata, and we were telling stories of the C- old CWHL and the PWHPA-

Yeah

... [laughs] and I don't, I don't think some of them believed us of some of the stories of-