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another book another surprise PWHL mention! this one is “it’s a love skate relationship” by Carli J. Corson- a YA where teen lesbian Charlie gets in an ill advised fight, is benched for six months, and winds up working with figure skater Alexa as a practice partner. they’ve just gotten tickets to the Boston fleet game and Charlie says Aerin Frankel deserves better

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great news for me specifically

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My last post, the one about how funny it is that Boston and Ottawa isn't considered a real rivalry, made me think too hard about all of the matchups in the PWHL and the degree to which they might be considered rivalries.

Then I made a bunch of pictures.

See attached images for explanations.

Key findings:

1. No one really has beef with Toronto. I know Montreal is always spicy hockey but I don't think Montreal fans dislike Toronto the same way Toronto fans dislike Montreal. Their hatred for Boston is greater. Toronto fans please chime in if you hate anyone else besides Montreal.

2. Boston is the IT GIRL of this graphic. Everyone either has a rivalry with them or wants to.

3. Ultimately the mutuality of the hatred is what makes a rivalry great. The ones everyone is gagged about are the ones where both parties consider it beef. (Consider the recent explosion of NY vs. Ottawa over NY vs. Boston. I'm under the impression Fleet fans don't consider the Sirens real rivals because the match has been so one-sided. This waters it down A LOT even though trust me we still hate each other in every other context, and leaves room for NY vs. Ottawa, a much more even match with reasons for both fanbases to dislike the opposing team, room to be superior.)

4. I have probably missed something, because I am one guy who is a fan of one team and I don't really watch when NY isn't playing, so chime in your thoughts!

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Rivalries in the PWHL are so funny actually

Like wdym Boston and Ottawa had the PWHL's first real fight but both fandoms have other rivalries they consider more intense?!

How did that happen? It is just that Boston-Montreal is that spicy and New York pulled off a miracle and now we're here?

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Klára Peslarová´s new gear for the worlds 👀

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Some of you are unhealthily obsessed with WAGs if you want to be fans of women in sports START WATCHING WOMEN'S SPORTS

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“Why are there All these breaks in the PWHL season” well they started planning a lot of these events, which have existed for 20+ years and are essential to the development for women’s hockey, before the PWHL existed, and also the PWHL didn’t announce THEIR schedule until like November of this year so

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Killing every stupid comment on the pride post with my mind “Why can’t it just be about hockey?” Nope mind lasers

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Pwhl liveblog people we need to develop a plan for when all six teams are playing at the same time

Are we splitting the lb tags by which match we're watching? Going all in on the generic one and exploding every time we want to zone in on one game?

Luckily we have 22 days to prepare for the apocalypse and hopefully prevent it

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ok you can announce the expansion news now 😁 you can announce where the PWHL is expanded 😃 announce it please 🙂

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If you want to watch some press session drama you should check out this one. It's super long for a post-game session, but still! It's got Kori Cheverie scolding the press. It's got Erin Ambrose being so wise. It's got some great looks into where Montréal's heads are at. Quality stuff.

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omg? saddest picture in the world?

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Welcome to the PWHL

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I am very grateful I am not one of Frankel’s teammates tonight because this would be superimposed at the bottom of my vision