Canadian Women's Hockey League

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Canadian Women's Hockey League
CWHL logo.jpg
Sport Ice Hockey
Founded 2007
Official website www.cwhl.ca

The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) is one of two major women's ice hockey leagues in Canada. The league was founded in 2007. The league currently has six ice hockey teams: three in Ontario, one in Quebec, one in Alberta and one in Boston, Massachusetts.

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[edit] History

The CWHL was an initiative spearheaded by players such as Lisa-Marie Breton, Allyson Fox, Kathleen Kauth, Kim McCullough, along with national team members Sami Jo Small and Jennifer Botterill. The players worked with a group of volunteer business people to form the CWHL by following the example of the National Lacrosse League. The league would be responsible for all travel, ice rental and uniform costs, plus some equipment.[1]

The Brampton Canadettes Thunder won the first CWHL championship on 22 March 2008, winning 4-3 over the Mississauga Chiefs in the final.[2] Molly Engstrom scored the overtime-winning goal while Lori Dupuis won the Championship Game MVP honours. At end of the 2007–08 season, Jayna Hefford was voted the league's regular-season Most Valuable Player. Jennifer Botterill won the Angela James Bowl as the league's top scorer and was voted the CWHL Top Forward. Becky Kellar was voted the CWHL Top Defender, Kim St-Pierre was voted the CWHL Top Goaltender, and Marie-Philip Poulin was voted the CWHL Outstanding Rookie.[3]

Also in 2007, Hockey Canada announced it would revamp the Esso Women's Nationals, with the Western Women's Hockey League champion and finalist meeting the Canadian Women's Hockey League champion and finalist.[4] Since 2009, teams from the two leagues instead compete for the Clarkson Cup at the end of the season.

In 2008-09, the Montreal Stars repeated as regular season champions, winning a league record 25 games. At the season's end, Caroline Ouellette was voted the league's regular-season Most Valuable Player. Jayna Hefford won the Angela James Bowl with a new record of 69 points and was also voted the CWHL Top Forward. Becky Kellar was voted the CWHL Top Defender, Kim St-Pierre was voted the CWHL Top Goaltender, and Laura Hosier was voted the CWHL Outstanding Rookie.

In 2009-10, Sabrina Harbec won the Angela James Bowl as the top scorer as the Stars repeated as regular-season champions. She was also voted the league's most valuable player, the CWHL Top Forward and a CWHL First Team All-Star. Teammate Annie Guay was voted CWHL Top Defender while Laura Hosier was voted CWHL Top Goaltender. Danielle Blanchard was voted CWHL Outstanding Rookie.

[edit] 2011-12 Season

The league announced on April 19, 2011, that it would merge with the Western Women's Hockey League for the 2011-12 CWHL season. The merger will feature one team based in Edmonton and Calgary and is a combination of the former WWHL franchises the Edmonton Chimos and Strathmore Rockies. The team will play their games in various locations around Alberta.[5] The WWHL announced that there was in fact no merger and that the WWHL would continue for the 2011-12 season with two new teams joining the league. Strathmore and Edmonton were welcome to depart the WWHL but the league would not disband as initially reported by the CWHL through various media outlets.

[edit] Teams

[edit] Current Teams

Current Teams City Primary Arena Clarkson Cups
Team Alberta CWHL Calgary Athletic and Ice Complex 0
Boston Blades Boston Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge 0
Brampton Thunder Brampton Powerade Centre 1
Burlington Barracudas Burlington Appleby Ice Center 0
Montreal Stars Montreal Centre Étienne Desmarteau 2
Toronto Furies Toronto, ON George Bell Arena 0

[edit] Defunct Teams

Former Team City Primary Arena Clarkson Cups Notes
Mississauga Chiefs Mississauga, Ontario Hershey Centre 0
Ottawa Senators Ottawa, ON Bell Sensplex 0 Previously CWHL Capital Canucks
Quebec Phenix Quebec City, QC 0
Toronto Aeros Toronto, ON Iceland Mississauga and MasterCard Centre 0
Vaughan Flames Vaughan, ON Vaughan Sports Village 0

[edit] Championship 2007-08

See also: 2007–08 CWHL season
Central Division
No. Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
1 Brampton Thunder 30 22 7 1 111 59 45
2 Mississauga Chiefs 30 21 8 1 115 61 43
3 Vaughan Flames 30 12 16 2 69 101 26
4 Burlington Barracudas 30 11 18 1 76 98 23
Eastern Division
No. Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
1 Montreal Stars 30 23 6 1 112 55 47
2 Ottawa Capital Canucks 30 8 19 3 58 99 19
3 Quebec Phenix 30 8 21 1 54 120 17

[edit] Playoffs

Brampton Thunder won the first Championship of the CWHL.

[edit] Championship 2008-09

See also: 2008–09 CWHL season
only one division now in CWHL
No. Team GP W L T Pts
1 Montreal Stars 28 24 3 1 49
2 Brampton Thunder 26 19 6 1 39
3 Mississauga Chiefs 26 16 8 2 34
4 Burlington Barracudas 25 10 13 2 22
5 Vaughan Flames 25 4 19 2 10
6 Ottawa Senators 24 4 20 0 8

[edit] Playoffs

Montreal Stars won the Championship of the CWHL

[edit] Championship 2009-10

See also: 2009–10 CWHL season
No. Team GP W L T Pts
1 Montreal Stars 30 23 5 2 48
2 Mississauga Chiefs 30 21 8 1 43
3 Burlington Barracudas 30 19 8 3 41
4 Brampton Thunder 29 12 14 3 27
5 Vaughan Flames 29 9 19 1 19
6 Ottawa Senators 30 5 23 2 12

[edit] Playoffs

Montreal Stars won the Championship of the CWHL.

[edit] Championship 2010-2011

See also: 2010–11 CWHL season

The 2010–11 CWHL season is the fourth in the history of the League. There is an addition of one expansion's team: Boston Blades. A request was made for an endorsement of the National Hockey League as an official NHL women's league.[6][7] However, the CWHL has yet to receive a decision from the NHL.[8]

No. Team GP W L OTL GF GA Pts
1 Montreal 26 22 2 2 125 70 46
2 Brampton 26 19 6 1 111 69 39
3 Boston 26 10 15 1 73 101 21
4 Toronto 26 8 13 5 83 98 21
5 Burlington 26 6 18 2 54 108 14

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[edit] Playoffs

Montreal Stars won the Championship of the CWHL.[10] Montreal, Brampton and Toronto will compete for the 2011 Clarkson Cup. The Montreal Stars also won the 2011 Clarkson Cup champions after defeating Toronto 5-0 in the tournament's final game.

[edit] Championship 2011-2012

See also: 2011–12 CWHL season

[edit] Season standings

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.


Regular season - Update January 24, 2012
No. Team GP W L OTL GF GA Pts
1 Montreal Stars 19 15 3 1 111 47 37
2 Boston Blades 17 15 2 0 68 36 32
3 Brampton Thunder 15 8 5 2 55 47 20
4 Toronto Furies 17 5 7 5 44 67 18
5 Alberta CWHL 9 3 6 0 19 43 12
6 Burlington Barracudas 17 1 16 0 34 91 2

Team Alberta CWHL plays only half of the number of regular matches. This because of the geographical estrangement. Points are consequently adjusted with another teams.

Reference[11]

[edit] Playoffs

[edit] Drafts

See also: 2010 CWHL Draft and 2011 CWHL Draft

The first ever league draft was held on August 12, 2010 at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. In the 2010 CWHL Draft, Olympic gold medallist Tessa Bonhomme was the first overall selection.[12]

[edit] First overall picks

Draft year Player Team College
2010 Tessa Bonhomme Toronto Aeros Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey
2011 Meghan Agosta Montreal Stars Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey

[edit] NCAA exhibition

Date CWHL team NCAA school Score CWHL goal scorers
Oct. 25, 2011 Brampton Thunder Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey Cornell, 6-0[13] None
Nov. 2, 2011 Brampton Thunder Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey Brampton, 3-1 Jayna Hefford, Jesse Scanzano, Vicki Bendus[14]
  • On November 2, 2011, Scanzano was on loan from the Toronto Furies, as she appeared in one game for the Brampton Thunder. The game was an exhibition contest versus her alma mater, the Mercyhurst Lakers.[15] In the second period of said contest, Scanzano scored the game winning goal as the Thunder defeated the Lakers by a 3-1 tally.[16]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=b649aca4-4560-49af-b3f0-525e14891b75
  2. ^ In Brampton News, Brampton Claims Inaugural CWHL Title, http://www.thebramptonnews.com/articles/3258/1/Brampton-Claims-Inaugural-CWHL-Title/Page1.html
  3. ^ Year-end statistics can be reviewed in the 2007-08 CWHL Year in Review document at http://www.hockeymedia.ca/Womens_2009_pdf.pdf.
  4. ^ http://www.thestar.com/article/261338
  5. ^ Chimos Part of Merger With CWHL
  6. ^ http://bleacherreport.com/articles/421458-possible-nhl-and-cwhl-partnership-in-the-works
  7. ^ NHL talks raise hopes of pro women's league, http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/875114--new-direction-for-women-s-hockey , The star.com October 13, 2010
  8. ^ (French) report of Radio-Canada Anonymat quasi complet
  9. ^ http://cwhl.ca/standings.asp
  10. ^ Montreal reigns supreme in women’s hockey, http://cwhl.ca/news.asp?id=72
  11. ^ CWHL Standings
  12. ^ http://www.tmlfans.ca/blogs/3486-inside-the-cwhl-inaugural-draft-makes-womens-hockey-history
  13. ^ http://cornellbigred.com/documents/2011/10/14/final_stats.pdf
  14. ^ http://hurstathletics.com/news/2011/11/2/WHOCK_1102113238.aspx?path=whockeyx
  15. ^ http://hurstathletics.com/news/2011/11/2/WHOCK_1102113238.aspx
  16. ^ http://hurstathletics.com/documents/2011/11/2/mc-bram.htm?id=990

[edit] League Website

[edit] External news story

[edit] See also

Canadian Women's Hockey League
Current teams:
Defunct teams:
Professional Women's Hockey seasons
NWHL
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