With the CWHL going under, they are currently at one league. Now with seven teams. So that argument is a half truth. They aren't just trying to force one league. They are trying to force one league operated by the NHL. That's a key difference. Because killing the existing one league is a necessary step in their view.
This is, as it always is, about money and nothing else. They want to get paid far more than their profession generates in revenue and know that the NHL is the only way it happens. Basically, a small scale manifestation of the same sense of entitlement that the NHLPA had in 2004, and which some members (and agents) still have today.
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