Buffalo Beauts, PHF All-Stars Excited to Invest $ 25 Million in Women’s Hockey League Owners | Hockey

Beauts and Minnesota Whitecaps were sold in June to NLTT Ventures, LLC, a joint venture between NL Sports and Top Tier Sports led by Andy Scurton and Neil Leibman. Scurto founded the insurance software company ISCS, and Leibman is the business director and chief operating officer of the Texas Rangers in Major League Baseball. Both are long-term investors in women’s hockey and members of the league board. They paid less than a million dollars per team.

“It gives the younger girls something to look forward to,” Beauts vice captain Dominique Kremer said of the placement, “knowing that Division I hockey isn’t the end of it all, be it. It’s not that when you graduate from college, you either play at the Olympics or stop playing hockey high This league allows women to achieve their post-university goals and something to look forward to and something to work on, and it’s really cool to be a part of it.

Kremer, 24, said he sells insurance during the day and like many players is grateful for the work and the boss that allows for a flexible schedule. According to the defender, Beauts has three workouts a week, in addition to group training, several Zoom meetings and a game on the weekends.

Metropolitan Riveters striker and captain Madison Packer, 30, a five-time all-star and league’s second-best scorer, said women’s professional hockey in North America is “just on the verge of rising” and that the investment league shows players that there is “real money” there. and that it is possible to earn a living.