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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
It seems to me that the more women you have playing the sport growing up, the more money they'll send your way long term. And you get more women to play the sport by having something resembling a pro league for them to develop to.
It's an investment. And a far more important one than China.
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the women's game has been as strong as it's ever been currently, but you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
while one can argue that the CWHL needed more time to develop, the attendance numbers were not good enough to continue the operations moving forward. Having one unified product would definitely help; two leagues wasn't going to work with the current numbers.
I am guessing the NHL bean counters think differently about China...presumably they have research to back up that position