The WNBA has been healthy and spectatorship in the arenas has been growing. Toronto could have a WNBA team. There is also the Women’s Pro Soccer (WPS) and they could have a team there too, except that next year there will be one in Niagara Falls, NY-Rochester, NY.

The National Pro Fastpitch women’s pro softball league, however, has been struggling, though they could also have a team in either metro Toronto or Western New York.

The CWHL or a new pro women’s ice hockey league should take over the Western Women’s Hockey League with their four teams, the Minnesota Whitecaps, the Manitoba Maple Leafs, the Edmonton Chimos, and the Strathmore Rockies, and also have new teams in Sasketchewan, Vancouver, and Calgary and a sixth new CWHL team in the east, maybe Quebec City, with two divisions in the east and west for the Clarkson Cup. The league should later expand throughout Canada and the northern U.S.

Most of the world’s population is to found in the tropics and semi-tropics where ice is a rare occurrence. Other sports like soccer have a more international appeal. Even sports like field hockey and lacrosse would have greater attraction for countries with balmy climates. Even in Montreal we have thaws in the dead of winter where ice turns soft.

Anyway hockey is a violent sport with all those body checks. It is disgraceful that fights are popular with the fans. Punching skills are often better rewarded than puck-handling skills. Many players end up with concussions like those found in similar sports such as boxing and football that few women participate in. Women unlike men would have to postpone their careers each time they got pregnant. Children would miss their mothers who are constantly on the road. Figure skating is a much more graceful sport for women to highlight their talents. Speed skating would also be a exciting suspenseful sport for females just as it is for males. Women should not try to emulate the opposite sex when it is not to their benefit.