Women s hockey gets a paycheck.

(Bloomberg View) -- U.S. Women's Hockey Finally Gets a Paycheck: Kavitha A. Davidson As the league office told Outlook Hockey's Mike Burse, the NWHL will be "the first paid professional women's hockey league in North America." The commissioner of the league is former Northeastern player Dani Rylan, who launched the league with four-time Olympic medalist Angela Ruggiero after failing to bring an expansion CWHL team to New York. [Extracted from the article]