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The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL; French: Ligue professionnelle de hockey féminin, ... with teams instructed to achieve an average salary of $55,000.
The CBA establishes that each PWHL team must sign at least six players to a minimum salary of $80,000, and no more than nine players to a league minimum salary of $35,000, with teams instructed to achieve an average salary of $55,000; the base and average salaries are slated to increase 3% per season through the end of the agreement.
The 2024–25 PWHL season is the second season of operation of the Professional Women's Hockey League. Six teams will compete during the season, located in Boston , Saint Paul , Montreal , Newark , Ottawa , and Toronto .
The 2023–24 PWHL season was the first season of operation of the Professional Women's Hockey League, and began play on January 1, 2024. Six teams competed during the inaugural season, located in Montreal , Toronto , Newark , Boston , Ottawa , and Saint Paul .
In December 2022, the salary cap for the 2023–24 PHF season was set at $1.5 million. [82] [83] The increase aligned with the Board of Governors' pledge, made in 2021, to invest $25 million directly in pay and benefits to PHF players over the ensuing three seasons. The announced cap signified a 900 percent growth over the 2021 salary cap. [84 ...
However, the league could typically pay only for travel, ice time, uniforms, and some equipment, and did not pay players a salary. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] From 2011 to 2015, the CWHL was the only organized top-level women's hockey league in North America.
Below are PWHL Ottawa's selections at the 2024 PWHL Draft, which was held on June 10, 2024, at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in Saint Paul. Ottawa Charge 2024 draft picks Round
On August 29, 2023, it was announced that one of the PWHL's first six franchises would be located in Boston. [1] [2] This ensured the continuation of professional women's hockey in the area after the folding of the Boston Pride and the Premier Hockey Federation earlier that summer; the Pride had been that league's most successful franchise, winning three Isobel Cup championships. [3]