N.W.H.L. Prioritizes Independent Team Ownership in New Model
October 12, 2020 – Publications / MentionsChair of Goulston & Storrs' College Sports Law Practice, Martin Edel, was recently quoted by the New York Times in an article about the National Women's Hockey League's new organizational model under a new interim commissioner.
"Martin Edel, a lecturer at Columbia Law School who specializes in sports law, said that the single-entity model of the last 20 years or so was built primarily on trying to avoid the antitrust laws, like Section 1 of the Sherman Act, rather than on growth.
'I haven’t seen new leagues that have arisen since the early 1990s come up in the traditional model; that’s why this is frankly surprising,' Edel said of the N.W.H.L.’s switch. 'Is that a better model for growth? It could be.'"