A new women's professional hockey league will begin competing in North America in January after a deal was brokered between rival factions in the sport.
Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Mark Walter and wife Kimbra, team president Stan Kasten and tennis legend Billie Jean King will help run the league after Walter's firm purchased assets of the Premeirl Hockey Federation (PHF).
The agreement announced Friday ends a yearslong feud between the seven-team PHF and the Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association, a group that includes many U.S.
and Canadian national team players who were unwilling to join the league formerly known as the NWHL. «I am extremely proud of our PWHPA group, which has remained committed to our vision and steadfast in our efforts to change the landscape of women's professional hockey forever,» PHWPA member and U.S.