2024-25 PWHL Thread

[No Fun Shogun]

New York Sirens is the only good name, imho. Fleet is... okay, but whatever. Sceptres is decent, Victorie and Charge are just meh, and Frost is so generic that it feels like a random background franchise name you'd see in a movie where they were an opponent off-hand mentioned in passing as part of a season montage.

If Chicago gets a team, hopefully better than that lot.

 

[JMCx4]

... If Chicago gets a team, hopefully better than that lot.

I heard all that's delaying PWHL expansion to Chicago is negotiations with Craig Drecktrah to secure the Express name & other branding ...

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This F/B group will be happy.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I heard all that's delaying PWHL expansion to Chicago is negotiations with Craig Drecktrah to secure the Express name & other branding ...

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This F/B group will be happy.

Me as an Express fan:



Rounding up.

Only person on the planet that still wears an Express hat, baby.

 

[JMCx4]

Me as an Express fan ...

Only person on the planet that still wears an Express hat, baby.

i sacrificed my Express alternate replica jersey several years back, so its logo could be proudly displayed on the defunct/relocated/rebranded minor pro hockey quilt my wife made for me ...

 

[JMCx4]

TIG-Murray released her 5th of 6 PWHL Roster Status Reports ... link posted HERE

ETA: Toronto roster review added to the post linked to complete the 2024-25 Reports.

 

[JMCx4]

Bit of a surprise, BOS Fleet goalie will be moonlighting as an NCAA DI women's team assistant coach ... Aerin Frankel Joins Women's Hockey Coaching Staff

 

[JMCx4]

From: ICI Radio-Canada

Women’s hockey: instead of the Kings, “why not the Queens” at the Videotron Centre?

Francois Pouliot
Posted September 6 at 11:25 a.m. CDT

While the Montreal team of the Professional Women's Hockey League (LPHF) announced earlier this week that it would take up residence at Place Bell in Laval for the 2024-2025 season, Jackie Smith, head of Transition Québec, would like one of the club's games to be held at the Videotron Centre.

"There are 14 games scheduled at Place Bell for the Montreal team," says the municipal councillor for the Limoilou district. "However, there is one game that must be on neutral ground [...] We are working hard to mobilize the community [and] transmit the enthusiasm for women's hockey in Quebec." ...
Read more at: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2102544/hockey-feminin-jackie-smith

 

[JMCx4]

The PWHL media gang managed to spin each of their new team names into a puzzle answer on Wheel Of Fortune ...

• TEAM TRIUMPH
• ANCHORS AWEIGH
• THE CALL OF THE COLD
• PUMP UP THE VOLUME
• HIGH-VOLTAGE HOCKEY POWERS FORWARD
• HOCKEY ROYALTY ASCENDS

And "Ottawa Charge" landed on BANKRUPT.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

You buying them for owners meetings with BJK?

 

[JMCx4]

You buying them for owners meetings with BJK?

PWHL owners' meetings are held exclusively in whatever mansion or conservation center or super-yacht Mark & Kimbra Walter have purchased lately.

 

[JMCx4]

I will have serious concerns a/b the future of the PWHL Boston franchise if they don't snag this company as a major sponsor ...

 

[FrHockeyFan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1834562775374291371

 

[GindyDraws]

Sirens admit defeat, will play in New Jersey.

 

[JMCx4]

Sirens admit defeat, will play in New Jersey.

Film at 11. Replay of NWHL/PHF "New York" team failures to gain a metro home.

 

[ckg927]

Overall not bad

Ottawa's looks like an ECHL team... I guess it's cool they got the logo be both an O and a C
Toronto's is underwhelming, imo. I think preferred Royals, Monarchs, Reign, etc. Just doesn't really look like a hockey logo to me, maybe a shoulder patch, and yellow as a Toronto colour feels off
Sirens, I hope they drop the doppler effect-y thing from the logo eventually. Kind of basketball vibes, but not bad overall

Fleet, with the sideways anchor making the B is dope
Minnesota Frost works. No complaints, simple but effective. Could've made an M in the icicles of the F
Victoire is honestly pretty solid. Like the "hidden" M in the logo. Maybe a little bit like a NA soccer logo

My take on the logos:

1. Ottawa looks like the bastard stepchild of not one but TWO teams: the Calgary Flames and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2. Toronto Scepters? Too....MMMMMMMID!
3. New York Sirens is the only one I absolutely DETEST. Not the color scheme(that just SCREAMS the NY Liberty), but just about everything else.
4. Boston: Hartford Whalers: The Next Generation. Truth to tell it's also pretty good.
5. Minnesota: Simple, but it works. Putting purple in the logo is a nice touch to honor one of the state's best known residents, Prince.
6. Montreal: Hands down, THE BEST LOGO. Period. And as Ben noted, love the "hidden" M in the logo. It's not even the first Montreal team to have DONE that; the Expos and Alouettes have also done it. (The Als more than once; the Expos logo for the most part didn't change.) I can hardly wait to see what the Victoire's jersey will look like.

 

[JMCx4]

My take on the logos ...

5. Minnesota: Simple, but it works. Putting purple in the logo is a nice touch to honor one of the state's best known residents, Prince. ...

More likely a nod to the person who made "The Dream Tour" a Billie Jean Bouncing Baby Girl. In any other sports league under any other influencer, the dumpster fire in Minnesota would have been extinguished quickly & the ashes buried in the permafrost. This one simply smolders, waiting to reignite.

 

[JMCx4]

A slew of disjointed Kennedies, for lack of suitable alternate topical coverage as The Great PWHL Pause drags along..........

• Meet The Newcomers: Boston Fleet
• Meet The Newcomers: Ottawa Charge
• PWHL Newcomers: Montreal Victoire
• Meet The Newcomers: New York Sirens
• Meet The Newcomers: Toronto Sceptres
• And last, and I'm guessing least ...

 

[JMCx4]

Another featured mini-series from THN's fiery Mr. Kennedy, with questions that nominally burn to be answered for The P's Season 2 ...

Summer is over, and the PWHL season is rapidly approaching. Teams have signed the bulk of their lineups, venues are secured, and all that's left is schedules and the fierce training camp competition for final spots. ... The Hockey News will look at three burning questions for each of the PWHL's six teams. ...

• Three Burning Questions For The Boston Fleet
• ETA ... Three Burning Questions For The New York Sirens
• ETA2 ... Three Burning Questions For The Minnesota Frost
• ETA2.1 ... Three Burning Questions For The Montreal Victoire
• ETA3 ... Three Burning Questions For The Ottawa Charge ...

 

[JMCx4]

I found this Ottawa Citizen sports columnists' takes on the new O-Charge branding a fun read ... in a sad sorta way ... Deachman: Ottawa's PWHL team name barely provides a 'charge'

 

[JMCx4]

I've started wondering if the Minnesota Frost has silenced the crickets as the last sounds we'll hear out of the MN team media.

 

[JMCx4]

Almost 2 months after publication, the vast majority of these conditions and ALL of these concerns remain valid & festering ...

TIG-Angelica Rodriguez ... Wicked Angles: PWHL Minnesota's Issues Create a Moment of Truth for the League... and They're Missing It

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Yeah Minnesota is an embarrassment to the league when it should be a highlight of the first season.

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

The Britta Curl situation was a public relations Lego that someone was going to step on, and honestly for me there's too much parasocial stuff going on in the women's hockey space - a reminder that players can be jerks too might get people to leave them alone a bit - but it was still stunning to see that team pick her in that draft in their own city.

The bigger story with Darwitz and Klee, who knows. Definitely feels like there are NDAs involved.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Driving away all the people that ran the previous leagues wasn’t the best idea.

 

[JMCx4]

Driving away all the people that ran the previous leagues wasn’t the best idea.

They didn't technically drive them away. They bought them out, then proceeded to act like they never existed. "Snob Hockey" comes to mind.