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  • Teams will submit a list of up to three players protected from selection during an exclusive signing window and the expansion draft. Those initial lists are due June 3 at noon ET.
  • Only players signed through 2025-26, or whose rights remain with a team, can be protected. Pending free agents cannot be protected or selected in the draft.
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Forwards Emily Clark and Brianne Jenner, and goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer agreed to terms on three-year contracts that will run through the 2026 season
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at least they can protect them .. not sure of the contract status of the other players.
 
looking forward to the finals would be super cool to see a ottawa team win a trophy :) been almost a decade since the redblacks brought one home.
 
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Gil Gunderson said:
Those expansion rules mean they pretty much need to win now lol
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Anger is a short term fuel.

Many early fans are; feminist, LGBTQ activists and other non-sports social issue chasers.

They have been fueled by Trump and his MGA, MAHA, etc. movements.

But.. that runs out. Anger is a cheap fuel. Superficial. It is there to incite and make a point, but not last. And so if you want a pro sports team to succeed, you need success. This way, once the "f*** you, I will show you phase of fandom ebbs, you will need true sports fans to come out. You will need the hockey lover, the lover of sport in general and the fan of "women Sports', not motivated by "f*** you, I will show you".

That means wining. And up front. A 4-5 year down in the toilette phase for any expansion team, will almost surely kill it. By year 3, the activists have gone home and the true fan is staring at another season or two of losing and they start staying away.

The people who run pro sports are not idiots. And those that run women pro sports are not idiots. They know this.

Sports net had a round table with teh President of the PWL and the NSL (Hefford and Matheson). Sharp cookies. They know how to attract attention that is permanent and not protest driven.
 
PistolPete said:
Your appraisal is a lot more generous than mine.

If the Renfrew Wolves played a PWHL All-Star team I'd bet on the Renfrew Wolves

To say a women's team will be on par with a male team implies that they can beat said team.
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They did studies a while back.

A male swimmer who finishes 8th in the final race, is typically 13% better than a female that wins the final race. (and 3% separates 1st from 8th in any one race)

this is built upon the fact that elite swimmers, both Male and Female, undergo similar training regimes, and similar life experiences as they ascend to stardom in swimming (ie, all things being equal)

so 13% probably separates men and women. (bottom of one, top of the other)

what is the drop off from NHL talent to central junior A talent?

And so what is the drop off from Central junior A to PWHL, if over time, women sports follow the same path as men and all things equal out. (numbers grow, ice time, coaching, opportunity, societal acceptance, and so on)?

Does a junior A player stand a chance of making the NHL? Small. Only that small fraction that is biding time in Junior A before they are allowed into a US university program. And so the remaining 20 players on a junior A team are about as far away from the NHL as can be.

Like I said, all things being equal, if pro hockey continues to grow and more and more elite female athletes jump in. 13% will separate a future Marie-Philip Poulin from a future Hayden Hodgson.

And so what will separate a future MPP from a "name your CCHL player who is 19 and not on his way to US college"?

If such a date happens that a future MPP is making 1 million and more dollars, will this not cause a massive rush of talent in?

John McEnroe once theorized that Serena Williams is probably around the 250th best player in the male section. That is actually pretty damn good and well inside the 13% differential.
 
Charge with a huge PK, then hometown girl Rebecca Leslie takes the puck down the ice and shelves it between the defenders legs. Beautiful goal.

1-0 Charge in the 2nd period.
 
Beech said:
They did studies a while back.

A male swimmer who finishes 8th in the final race, is typically 13% better than a female that wins the final race. (and 3% separates 1st from 8th in any one race)

this is built upon the fact that elite swimmers, both Male and Female, undergo similar training regimes, and similar life experiences as they ascend to stardom in swimming (ie, all things being equal)

so 13% probably separates men and women. (bottom of one, top of the other)

what is the drop off from NHL talent to central junior A talent?

And so what is the drop off from Central junior A to PWHL, if over time, women sports follow the same path as men and all things equal out. (numbers grow, ice time, coaching, opportunity, societal acceptance, and so on)?

Does a junior A player stand a chance of making the NHL? Small. Only that small fraction that is biding time in Junior A before they are allowed into a US university program. And so the remaining 20 players on a junior A team are about as far away from the NHL as can be.

Like I said, all things being equal, if pro hockey continues to grow and more and more elite female athletes jump in. 13% will separate a future Marie-Philip Poulin from a future Hayden Hodgson.

And so what will separate a future MPP from a "name your CCHL player who is 19 and not on his way to US college"?

If such a date happens that a future MPP is making 1 million and more dollars, will this not cause a massive rush of talent in?

John McEnroe once theorized that Serena Williams is probably around the 250th best player in the male section. That is actually pretty damn good and well inside the 13% differential.
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For a sport like hockey may that 13% be larger? Is swimming transferable to sports where you actively compete against others rather than parallel to each other?

I don't know the numbers but female track and field has been around a very long time and very popular at the Olympcs level yet there is still a large discrepancy.

The biological differences are ultimately insurmountable soI just don't see PWHL teams competing against a junior A team, even one where not a single player is going to college. I could be proven wrong but if I was a betting man...
 
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