Just keeps pushing that shutout record higher and higher this season.
It’s really just down to the Sceptres and Charge for that fourth spot.
I dunno if there's gonna be a flurry of moves in the next couple of days, but I guess it's possible?
With only hours remaining until the PWHL's roster freeze, which takes effect at 5pm on March 31, the impact of injuries is impacting player movement. Teams are working to fill their reserve rosters, or sign free agents, but teams have become slightly shy about shifting too much on their rosters due to questions about when or if certain players will return.
Do we call them six pointers?
Each game carries outsized weight in a 3-2-1 points system. A regulation win doesn’t just add three points — it denies the opponent any, creating immediate separation in a race where neither team has been able to pull away.
I mean who wouldn’t jump at the chance:
Josh Naylor, Mariners first baseman and well-documented hockey fan, is normally not keen on catching ceremonial first pitches but jumped at the chance to be part of this one with Knight. Naylor, who we spoke with about his hockey fandom last season, has a Hilary Knight Seattle Torrent jersey in his locker in the Mariners clubhouse.
I had missed this detail from the Kosovo - Slovakia match:
After Thursday’s dramatic 4-3 victory over Slovakia in the playoff semi-final in Bratislava, president of the Kosovo Football Federation, Agim Ademi, called the Kosovo players “gladiators”. People celebrated the win with fireworks on the streets of Pristina, and on social media. Slovakia, like Serbia, does not recognise Kosovan independence. Neither country’s football team, it was noted, will be crossing the Atlantic this summer.
I’d probably be in the nosebleeds streaming the game on my phone, but the vibes with 40k Torrent fans in one building would be immaculate.
For comparison, the top two Torrent defenders by ice time, Barnes and Wilgren, were on $59k and $39.5k last year with the Victoire.
I legit think with a solid ad spend the Torrent could sell out T-Mobile Park:
With the ever expanding interest in the PWHL, who celebrated 2 million fans this week, and are likely to surpass a million fans this season alone, the opportunity to host a premier outdoor event for the PWHL is waiting.
For the league, having smashed every women's hockey attendance mark and standard ever set, taking the game outdoors, where women first played hockey in the 1800s, could be the next evolution, and the only remaining pathway to continue setting new attendance standards.
Playing two knockout games in Canada would be huge:
Home advantage is enormous and, for the Canada men’s team, a first at a World Cup. If they top Group B, their next two knockout games would also be in Vancouver. Ahmed has no concerns about playing in the US in the current political climate, saying Canada would just have to block out “external things”, but who can blame him for wanting to play as many games as possible in two cities that mean the world to him. “It’s going to be a perfect setup for me, playing in Toronto and Vancouver – I couldn’t ask for anything better.”
Thank goodness they included the quote from the Iranian spokesperson, otherwise you might be confused as to who did the bombing from how carefully the article avoids attributing the attack:
The men’s team lined up holding pink and purple bags with ribbons on them – a reference to the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School, which Tehran says killed more than 175 people, including children and teachers on the first day of joint US-Israeli strikes.
“The players are holding the school bags close to their heart in remembrance of the 165 girls the Americans killed in an Iranian school,” an Iranian team spokesperson confirmed.
This is a woman on the way to the office to get shit done: