The new women's hockey league still has a lot on its to-do list

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The new Professional Women's Hockey League marked another key milestone today as training camps opened for each of its six teams.

The PWHL began forming in early summer when billionaire Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter and other investors bought out and folded the seven-team Premier Hockey Federation. Walter's group quickly struck a labour deal with the Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association, an alliance of Canadian and U.S. national teamers who had spent the past few years trying to establish a league of their own.

Since then, the centrally organized PWHL has announced the locations of its original six franchises (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the New York City area), hired coaches and executives, signed three foundational players for each team, conducted its inaugural draft in Toronto and, yesterday, unveiled each club's home and away jerseys.

"It feels like we've been at this for 10 years, but it's just been four months," said PWHL board member Stan Kasten, who's also president of the Dodgers. "We had a blank sheet of paper and no employees four months ago and now we have over 120 employees."

"When we started this journey, we didn't have a single roll of tape, a single set of laces, a skate sharpener… simple things like Band-Aids," said Hockey Hall of Famer Jayna Hefford, the PWHL's senior VP of hockey operations. "We've worked incredibly hard to make sure that when the players walk in, they have everything they need to be professional athletes."

Indeed, the PWHL has come a long way in a short time. But much remains on