[3] The elected player representatives during the NWHL's inaugural season were Emily Pfalzer and Meghan Duggan from Buffalo Beauts, Celeste Brown and Taylor Holze from the New York Riveters, Kelli Stack and Kaleigh Fratkin from the Connecticut Whale, and Hilary Knight and Brianna Decker from the Boston Pride.
In response to the cuts, players made calls for greater transparency from the league.
[7] In 2023, as it became clear that the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PHWPA), which had been organizing a boycott of the NWHL since 2019, was preparing to launch a new professional women's league, the PHFPA held discussions about formally unionizing.
[9] The PWHLPA negotiated a landmark eight-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the new league, which was ratified in July 2023.
[8] The Committee included at least one representative from each former PHF team: Jillian Dempsey and Allie Thunstrom from Boston; Dominique Kremer from Buffalo; Kacey Bellamy and Kennedy Marchment from Connecticut; Fratkin, Madison Packer, and Katerina Mrázová from the Riveters; Sydney Brodt from the Minnesota Whitecaps; Ann-Sophie Bettez from the Montreal Force; and Shiann Darkangelo from the Toronto Six.