Salaries in the PHF are rising to the point where many players won’t have to work second jobs. Is it enough to bridge the gap with the Dream Gap Tour?
was getting up at 4 a.m. last winter to work a full shift as a FedEx delivery driver before starting the job she loved but couldn’t live on: playing women’s professional hockey.this season, and said goodbye to the delivery route and those early mornings. “I got out of that habit real quick because nobody wants to wake up at 4 a.m.,” she said.was a dramatic sign of how fast things are changing in women’s hockey.
Since 2021 things have been looking up. The PHF has raised the salary cap for teams from $300,000 to $750,000 with health benefits this season, and has committed to $1.5 million team caps for the 2023-2024 season, or an average of about $70,000 per player. The league is up to seven teams, five in the U.S. and two in Canada — Toronto and Montreal — and looking to keep growing.
The 35-year-old, nearing the end of her hockey career, is thrilled for the chance to play on a pro team but isn’t looking to give up her other job as a financial planner. But that’s becoming a real option for younger players, she says. The sport’s biggest stars don’t see it that way. When the CWHL announced it was closing just a week after handing out the 2019 Clarkson Cup, then the Stanley Cup of women’s hockey, many of the game’s best players had had enough. The likes of Marie-Philip Poulin, Sarah Nurse, Hilary Knight and Kendall Coyne Schofield vowed not to play in any existing professional league and set out to create a better one. Four years later, they’re still trying.
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