On July 13, 2006, the National Women's Hockey League announced it would absorb the WWHL's teams into its new West division.
In 2010, the WWHL champion Minnesota Whitecaps won the Clarkson Cup tournament, defeating three rivals from the CWHL.
The CWHL announced on April 19, 2011, that it would merge with the Western Women's Hockey League for the 2011–12 season.
The WWHL executive committee accepted the resignations of the owners of the Strathmore Rockies and Edmonton Chimos at their meeting in Minneapolis on August 19, 2011.
A list of WWHL winners (winner is in bold): The Chinese national women's team also played an exhibition schedule against WWHL teams in the 2007–08 season with points counting in league standings.