#the pwhl

[powerrplay]

just thought id share the sweater i crocheted for my takeover tour game this past weekend

(did colors for both home and away jerseys for each team)

[mexicantransman]

Boston vs Toronto… I don’t wanna speak about it at the current moment..😞

[pwhlfrost]

via thepwhlofficial on instagram

[ghostlyspirit]

when i became a hockey fan in 2016 i never thought there’d be a professional women’s league. i’m shedding tears. this is so important, powerful, and meaningful to every women who loves or had ever loved the sport.

[mothgirlcharlie]

so... the season starts in SIX DAYS.... will the pwhl tell me where i can watch their games if i live in the country that half their teams are in???

[strawberryblondebutch]

TELEVISION. Show me BEAUTIFUL WOMEN being VIOLENT

[aerinfrankellove]

Good night to only the team names at the Seattle women’s hockey club

[roycelewis]

[saucingitup]

It hasn’t been easy for many who have come before them. Twenty-six years ago in Nagano when women’s hockey debuted as an official Olympic sport, some media coverage focused more on the sexual orientation of the players than the competition.

But relationships among athletes are slowly gaining a normality in women’s pro sports. In 2021, married couple Allie Quigley and Courtney Vandersloot won a WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky, and they are just one of many couples in the league. 

Women’s sports is undergoing a transformative expansion — new leagues, more money and investment, increased media coverage — and the story of teammates as couples is only going to become more common.

“I've always been the hockey player. But I have a wife and I can be myself. People are coming to the rink and saying thank you for allowing me to be myself,” Poulin says. 

If Poulin has helped make Stacey a better hockey player, Stacey has assisted Poulin in living her most authentic life. 

And in a lot of ways, they have become bigger than the game.

Their late-September wedding at Le Peaches and Cream in Low, Que., is described by many of the 192 family members and friends who were in attendance as the perfect day. Poulin and Stacey both call it “the best day of their lives” — an epic celebration of life and love, the culmination of a relationship that began in 2017 when they locked eyes while swimming at a Team Canada event at Blue Mountain in southern Ontario.

Stacey had just competed in her first world championship, Poulin a decorated champion many times over. They were teammates, but they didn’t really know a lot about one another. 

“A few of us decided to go skinny dipping in the pool at 2 a.m.” Stacey says. “The two of us looked up into the sky at the same time and we saw a shooting star. Our eyes met and we asked each other if we just saw that. Nobody else in the pool saw it or knew what was going on but we saw it. For the rest of that night it was a weird feeling. I had a feeling.

“We always go back to that moment. Even in my wedding vows, that was the thing —that she was the wish I had always dreamed of and I didn’t realize it until now.”

and they were linemates... everybody stop drop and read this article on laura stacey and marie philip-poulin

[horsegirlgru]

women’s hockey is real hockey and all men’s hockey is rpf. hope this makes sense.

[gyudons]

when any nhl player gives an intermission interview

[mexicantransman]

LET’S GO BOSTONNN!!!!

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[multilevelmargoting]

cannot believe a live broadcast accidentally made it look like Abby told a child to shut the fuck up this is so funny to me

[mothgirlcharlie]

i havent been watching the game im doing memorial day w my partners family but oh my LORD what is happening