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Originally Posted by Joborule
Not surprising at all. People don't care about women's hockey enough.
Perhaps if the NHL ran their own league like the NBA does with the WNBA, it would have a chance of surviving long term. The NHL could (although they may not want to since it's a business after all) afford the immediate term pains for possible long term gains. There would be lot of cross over promotion that could occur; and would give it more resource backing. But they would do that if they figure there's a lot of potential revenue growth from boosting the women's game more.
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Every analysis I've seen shows that the WNBA is essentially not profitable, it relies on the NBA to support it to continue existing. If the NHL is willing to have a dependency league on their hands to promote women's sports then that's their call. It is interesting to see though that despite all the NBA does for the WNBA they're constantly knocked for the wage gap between the two leagues. It seems no matter how much you do people won't be happy.