Exactly one year ago, many of the elite players in Canada, including myself, received news via emails that our league was folding. The former NWHL, the league started after the inaugural Olympics in 1998 as a place for us to hone our skills and to be able to play against the best players in the world, was suddenly no longer.

The former owners of the NWHL teams decided to take a hiatus for the 2007-2008 season to determine how they could make the league profitable — and I don't blame them.

Most of the former owners loved the female game and put in a substantial amount of their own money year after year to try to give their players the best environment. However, the tap was all out of water. The owners just couldn't continue to sustain loses year after year without a light at the end of the...

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