{"id":57238,"date":"2019-04-04T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=57238"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:50","slug":"stevens-the-death-of-the-cwhl-presents-a-new-opportunity-for-womens-professional-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/04\/stevens-the-death-of-the-cwhl-presents-a-new-opportunity-for-womens-professional-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVENS: The death of the CWHL presents a new opportunity for women\u2019s professional hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Sport Management Associate Professor Julie Stevens wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/the-death-of-the-cwhl-presents-a-new-opportunity-for-womens-professional-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in the\u00a0<em>National Post<\/em><\/a> about the future of professional women&#8217;s hockey following the recent collapse of the Canadian Women&#8217;s Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The sudden announcement by the Canadian Women\u2019s Hockey League (CWHL) that it was ceasing operations has generated controversy and confusion. But as an academic who researches sport organizations, I have a different take \u2014 the CWHL closure opens the door for new and innovative women\u2019s professional hockey opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the surface, this ordeal reads as a tale of two leagues \u2014 one non-profit, the CWHL, and one for-profit, the National Women\u2019s Hockey League (NWHL).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When the CWHL announced it was shutting down, the league\u2019s board of directors stated \u201cthe business model has proven to be economically unsustainable.\u201d Many fans and media took this to mean the non-profit model won\u2019t work and the only option is the NWHL\u2019s for-profit approach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But this is a shortsighted view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/the-death-of-the-cwhl-presents-a-new-opportunity-for-womens-professional-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Sport Management Associate Professor Julie Stevens wrote a piece recently published in the\u00a0National Post about the future of professional women&#8217;s hockey following the recent collapse of the Canadian Women&#8217;s Hockey League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[7746,3696,5513,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57239,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57238\/revisions\/57239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}