Acknowledgments
Super huge thanks to everyone who answered my nosy questions about your fan experiences! All the responses were really interesting and helpful as I put the comic together. Thanks especially to those directly quoted: Julie G., Amy Smift, Steph S., Charlotte Ohl, Kate Shea, Laura Kemper, and Emily.
Other Sources
NWHL Official Website
CWHL Official Website
Dani Rylan’s piece for the Players’ Tribune
Other articles covering the NWHL’s launch
Articles on the NWHL’s money troubles
Articles on the current lawsuit against the NWHL
NHL Winter Classic, 8 January 2016
Recent incidents allegedly involving NHL players, referenced in the comic:
Patrick Kane
Mike Ribeiro 1, 2
Semyon Varlamov 1, 2
Slava Voynov 1, 2, 3, 4
Molly Brooks is a freelance illustrator and comics-maker in Brooklyn by way of Nashville. At this very moment she is probably eating jelly beans and DEFINITELY drinking tea.