#SPHL

[rowdyluv]

the local SPHL team may not be the best team in their league anymore (quite disappointing honestly considering their former record) but they’re giving away special edition jerseys tonight to the first 1,200 people in the door for opening night.

Best believe I’m doing everything I can to get one. My jersey collection needs it.

[hockeyonthebuds]

Dear People who are reading this lol I appreciate your attention...

So, I love goalies, and I try to learn more and more about it, and a few weeks ago I discovered the podcast ''Goalie Hacks Podcast'' and I'd like to know if anyone know the host, Mike Santaguida.

I saw and read about his career (things I found available on Google) and his teachings/knowledge are really very good, I like the way he thinks about himself, his profession and several other aspects. But, since 2022 he simply stopped everything, and I think I'd like to know why... that's why I'm asking about him, I'll put some links here so you can understand:

[cowpoke-morgan]

went to a minor league hockey game last night, left with food poisoning 🙃🙃

but hey, we won

[mitchbeck]

GREENVILLE SWAMP RABBITS RESIGN LA GRISSON

By: Mark Shelley, Greenville Swamp Rabbits GREENVILLE, S.C. – The Greenville Swamp Rabbits, ECHL affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings, announced today that the club has re-signed defenseman LA Grissom to an ECHL contract for the 2023-24 season. Grissom, 27, returns to the Swamp Rabbits for a second season after being acquired by Greenville on January 10, 2023, in a trade with the Allen Americans.…

[housewifemd]

The hard part about the wouse hockey au. Is that we wanted to set it in a city that doesn't have an NHL team. So ... we are making it one. And then there are also other major teams that need to happen and be designed. So thats tough

[pacific-coast-hockey]

yk i have not been watching the rookie tournament due to the horrors but getting all my information secondhand thru @whoredeleau, it does strike me very much as similar to the '22 rookie tournament, where i walked out of it convinced this would be the cuda's year. and it absolutely was NOT, but i did proceed to have the most fun i've ever had as a barracuda fan in the 22-23 season. fingers crossed the vibes are changing

[moregraceful]

anyway before i got extremo derailed tonight, i was reading neon's curated collection of quotes from a russian interview with klim kostin and it got me wondering if any nhl teams keep chaplains on staff. considering this is the league where they will not even provide translators or language teachers like 95% of the time, i wasn't expecting them to, but cursory research turned up hockey ministries international which appears to pair local christian church pastors with junior, minor, and major leagues and call it chaplaincy even though everything on their website feels like youth pastor jock version. also found this very interesting if christian-focused athletic article from 2019 about the roles of faith in the nhl which mentions 23 nhl teams having a chaplain on staff. but the entire framing around the hmi program and chaplains in the nhl seemed to be around christianity? which admittedly i have only experienced chaplaincy in relation to hospice or extreme crisis situations so maybe single-faith focused chaplaincy is more standard when people aren't like imminently dying.

all of which of course gave me one million more questions while i was doing the dishes. like -- inclusitivity 101 but if they hired chaplains with interfaith training at all levels would they start seeing more religiously and culturally diverse players. and was also wondering if, even though hmi claims to be non-denominational, what kinds of outreach they do for orthodox players like kostin (i assume) or vasilevskiy (mentioned in the article) because none of the language on their website felt ecumenical. and also what kind of spiritual care they offer players in player assistance -- i feel like it's not uncommon to hear about goalies finding religion and coming out of player assistance concurrently. and also the number of goalies themselves who are christian, which was particularly interesting to me, as in the article, most of the ones who self-identified didn't come to faith until adulthood or were deeply on the pro-league career track. i also think about like--like what are the ahl (or echl/sphl) chaplains doing for the players who were raised with prosperity gospel and the various threads associated with that

and these are all very fascinating trains of thought for me to chase bc i love thinking about how faith impacts our lives broadly and in my little hobbies specifically but what i kept getting stuck on is if the framing around spiritual care in the nhl is all christianity, who is providing spiritual care at each stop for nazem kadri, who is a practicing muslim

[puckinghischier]

me wanting canucks/quinn merch but also planning to go out to eat with my friends every weekend and buying tickets to sphl games on top of my nhl game and also booking a disney cruise with my mom for next year while having three tattoos scheduled for the end of this month 🫨🫨

[setaflow]

idk if u watch any minor leagues but this past season was SO fucked in the sphl re: reffing. had one guy roughing my teams players after the final bell get off scot free, but one of ours got dismissed in the first period with a game misconduct+major penalty for butt ending. refs were hardcore stacked against us up til/during the playoffs. shit was crazy

I follow some minor league news but not the sphl-- reading this makes me angry on your behalf tho, I'd fucking lose it if I was watching that happen against my team.

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

Ok i literally just spend this post rambling train of thought

Honestly I'm still annoyed by the Professional Woman's Hockey League as a name. Like the Premier Hockey Federation was gender neutral just like the National Hockey League and American Hockey League and the ECHL and the SPHL and the FPHL and and and it keeps going and some of these leagues have had women play in them and do so successfully, and it wouldn't surprise me if that keeps happening a little bit more frequently than it used to the more seriously people take women and their development when they're young, and someday there's going to be another Harrison Browne or maybe there already is and they just aren't currently interested in being out publicly or don't even know this about themselves yet (idk what's up with CJ & if they consider herself a woman, or maybe they've got that thing going on where her gender is lesbian, maybe she's talked about it publicly and i just haven't seen it but whatever that's their business), and yes it's a women's league the way the other leagues are men's leagues where sometimes there's exceptions but it's majority one thing and women deserve their majority league and a women's league has its value as a league for its own sake and calling it a women's league isn't implying it's inferior or whatever. But also it's another pro league, it's all pro leagues. Idk, if everyone involved wants it to be called the women's pro league then fine, they're the ones playing in it. But i do wonder if everyone does, if everyone always will. I guess there's benefits from advertising in the name that this is a majority women league and not some other minor or independent men's league. How much benefit?

Idk I'm biased bc I'm a trans

(also i didn't mention Jessica Platt because she and any other trans women who would theoretically play in this new league [she's retired i believe but like in a theoretical world where she was still interested and able to play pro, or also other trans women] are women and this is about people who aren't women playing in the women's league or how necessary or beneficial it is to call the league a women's league even if it's all women for the rest of forever. I'm not discounting the general transphobia & specific transmisogyny likely to be faced by trans women who try to play in this league, it's just not what this post is about)

Not that this is particularly coherent i don't think since i don't even really have a conclusion other than i personally preferred the PHF's name and i think there's benefits and drawbacks to the new league's name.

Also Whitecaps forever also Boston can never beat the Pride as a name even though the Wicked does kinda rule in a vacuum

Also i almost hope a team will choose the Vamps but also if any west coast US location were to end up with a women's league team Seattle is high up there, and if Seattle wanted to bring back the Vamps as a name and it was already taken that'd just suck

[steddieas-shegoes]

USA Hockey, the NHL, the AHL, the ECHL, the SPHL, every hockey league: we need to grow the game!!!!

Also all of these people including youth teams: so this is a stay to play tournament and you HAVE to stay at this one hotel that WE picked that’s a solid $75 more expensive a night than other places in the area but it’s what we chose and also it’s for team building!!!! Oh and you have to go ahead and book it in the next two weeks even though the tournament isn’t for almost two months AND you have to book for all three nights even though you may not even play the last day!!!!

[babydollmarauders]

Wait how often do you go to games?

not too often! i don’t live close to any NHL teams, so i typically go to 3 NHL games per season! the first game is usually a game with my friends, and then my sister and i go to NJ towards the end of the season and go to 2 games 🤍

i do have an ECHL team kinda close though, so i go to a couple ECHL games per season! and then this season i went to an SPHL game and a college game with kei, as well!

[pierrelucdisaster]

Also the SPHL and the FPHL too! The minor league teams are having fun and wearing cool jerseys too!

Here's a friendly reminder that the AHL and ECHL have specialty jerseys and they wear them during games! Please support those teams and their initiatives if they don't change their ways too.

[puckinghischier]

So real. Like I don’t even care if it’s Nashville. Just to be able to go to a game whenever sounds so nice

hell there’s an sphl team two hours from my house, i wish i could even afford THOSE season tickets, but not right now i can’t 😪

[tommylindholm]