When the six teams in the new Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) take to the ice at the Utica University Nexus Center in Utica, N.Y., on Monday, it will be the first time coaches and general managers get to see how their teams stack up to the others.
For players, it will be a long-awaited return to the intensity of game action, a feeling some players haven't had since the spring.
The league will hold a five-day pre-season evaluation camp in the small New York city, which will also play host to the Women's World Championship next spring.
By the end of the camp, general managers will have to make some tough decisions, as they move toward the Dec. 11 deadline to finalize rosters.
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