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    Minnesota's pro women's hockey team finally has a name: the Frost

    By Kyle Stokes,

    2024-09-09

    Minnesota's professional women's hockey franchise already has a league championship , and now it has a name: the Minnesota Frost.

    Driving the news: PWHL officials on Monday unveiled logos for all six of the league's clubs , which played their inaugural seasons without names.


    • The other clubs are now the Boston Fleet, Ottawa Charge, New York Sirens, Toronto Sceptres and Victoire de Montréal.

    What they're saying: "Sometimes the best things in life you have to wait the longest for," Frost captain Kendall Coyne Schofield told reporters at a league press conference Monday.

    Catch up quick: The PWHL launched in January just six months after its financial backers — tennis legend Billie Jean King and Mark Walter, an L.A. Dodgers part-owner — bought out a previous women's hockey league.

    The intrigue: The league's challenge was to find names it could own under both American and Canadian intellectual property laws, PWHL senior VP Amy Scheer told reporters.

    What we're watching: Some merch is already on sale, but jersey designs will remain under wraps until the fall.

    What's next: The second season's start date hasn't been set, but will begin earlier than last season's Jan. 1 start date, league officials said.

    The bottom line: As Sceptres captain Blayre Turnbull told reporters, whatever you think of the new nicknames, they're "a lot easier to say than 'PWHL Toronto.'"

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