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idk about a name change or anything because that sounds complicated but i do think it be cool for the sirens to have a shoulder patch with new jersey something on it or a shirt or something, for the primary reason of if you've ever met someone from jersey the home state pride is intense and they will 100% buy a shirt for a pro team they barely know if it says new jersey on it

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gardiner's behind the back pass to pou

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Btw if I’m New York I am 100% on the phone with Skylar after that game

some pretty major news from a few days ago that i cant remember if i posted here - skylar fontaine (who played with ZSC Lions in swizterland and was the highest scoring defender in switzerland and named the defender of the year last year) did not have her work permit extended. She had a job at a bank in switzerland as well. im not going to pretend to be an expert in swiss immigration, but it is hard to see so many woman athletes in particular/at a higher rate than male athletes globally struggle with visa issues. its a huge loss for her team and the league and i cant imagine what she's dealing with having to move middle of the season

She will have her options for playing hockey. There's not a single team in europe that she doesn't make better, but there is the logistical issue of what they can afford to pay her and how that works with her career and other job. Fontaine is american and was a stand out defender who played at Northeastern, and is particularly talented as a puck mover, and tbh there is definitely a pwhl team or two who should be calling her as well. of course, even then its not that simple, but it is a story to watch.

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MGM SUPREMACY

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Look I know Buffalo hasn’t sold well on the takeover tour but like. Please consider that Buffalo is a city that had a phf team for just short a decade that won an isobel cup and had a smaller but extremely passionate fanbase and also has a ton of local players (Zafuto was just featured at a panel for the Sabres), and this is like. Probably some of those fans last chance to see professional women’s hockey for a very long time. Obviously the feelings are complicated and I know many beauts fans who won’t be going because they’re upset to have their team folded, but like. Least the league could do is add a stop as an olive branch

The beauts overall have a very weird history in phf. They won in the second season as extreme underdogs. The pegulas bought them, made them the place to be for one season, and then immediately sold them and denied them of the facilities they legit built for them, so they kind of had to start over. Their gm was a guy who started as like an intern or something but he loved the team a lot. In one of their outdoor games they had a player score four goals in the third period and like they still lost. The majority of their records are held by players that new PWHL fans wouldn’t know. But idk. It mattered a lot

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Hey hockeyblr, particularly woho hockeyblr and Minnesota hockey folks:

There is currently a petition going around by a small and vocal minority of people who are trying to get WHAM (Women's Hockey Association of Minnesota) to ban 'biological males' from joining WHAM and thus playing in the state's largest women's hockey league.

The local women-oriented sports bar, A Bar of Their Own, have been staunch supporters of trans and nonbinary people and their place in sports. They have started a counter petition to reject this and remind Minnesota Hockey, the governing body of WHAM, that hockey is for everyone.

I am calling on Minnesots Frost fans in particular to take action, as we know WHAM has been a natural feature at games. As a refuge state with a huge queer population, that has had protections for trans people since the 70s, we know this isn't the will of our community. I'd doubly encourage you to send respectful comments to Minnesota Hockey as well. I am, and will be pointing out the reduction of attendance at Frost games since they have drafted a known transphobe.

Thanks, hockey fam.

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Aboulier8: ice hockey chronicles

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Two Lina goals and a buckey goal im the real winner of this game

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some pretty major news from a few days ago that i cant remember if i posted here - skylar fontaine (who played with ZSC Lions in swizterland and was the highest scoring defender in switzerland and named the defender of the year last year) did not have her work permit extended. She had a job at a bank in switzerland as well. im not going to pretend to be an expert in swiss immigration, but it is hard to see so many woman athletes in particular/at a higher rate than male athletes globally struggle with visa issues. its a huge loss for her team and the league and i cant imagine what she's dealing with having to move middle of the season

She will have her options for playing hockey. There's not a single team in europe that she doesn't make better, but there is the logistical issue of what they can afford to pay her and how that works with her career and other job. Fontaine is american and was a stand out defender who played at Northeastern, and is particularly talented as a puck mover, and tbh there is definitely a pwhl team or two who should be calling her as well. of course, even then its not that simple, but it is a story to watch.

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mfw broken stick