PWHL - Your level of interest

[Perfect_Drug]

Watchin and following Montreal.

Hope they're not f***ing idiots like the NHL and embrace streaming.

 

[LeafGrief]

In the game/league, 0.5. My wife is mildly interested so we’ll probably go to a game or two, but I’ve already got plenty of sports on my plate.

As a business case, 4/5. This league has been getting all sorts of marketing, so I’m extremely curious to see how it does. Professional women’s sports get all sorts of people in a twist for one reason or another, so there will be popcorn aplenty. I hope that they can be successful and I hope that they are serious athletes rather than the serial complainers that seem to have taken over some other women’s competitions.

All in, voted 2. If this means I get to watch more hockey with my wife (she never watches the Leafs with me, we occasionally go to a junior game) then I’ll call it a win!

 

[Scandale du Jour]

I think their marketing is abysmal. The merch is awful. The teams have no identity.

However, my interest level is high and I plan to actively follow the league. Saying it won't work would make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I think we have to give it a chance to grow and, hopefully, reach the success of womens soccer in Europe... and... well... maybe a Stanley Cup can be won by a Toronto team

 

[chaser17]

I hope it works out but if you're looking for quality hockey its probably cheaper to go and watch your local Midget AAA team.

 

[JMCx4]

I hope it works out but if you're looking for quality hockey its probably cheaper to go and watch your local Midget AAA team.

Funny you should mention that ... PWHL Ottawa assistant captain Jincy Roese played for the St. Louis AAA Blues team before she moved on to the World Juniors squad then to the Ohio State Buckeyes. Small world, huh?

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Why?

You want more money going to the owners or?

I see you went ahead and read the whole post. Good on ya.

 

[Skolman]

I see you went ahead and read the whole post. Good on ya.

I did, I read your rant about welding unfortunately.

What's your point?

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I did, I read your rant about welding unfortunately.

What's your point?

Well your question is answered in there - "But those are my sentiments and capitalism had other plans." right in the first paragraph. I'm not giving you a solution because there isn't one. Not that hard.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Record crowd in Ottawa 8,318 sell out

PWHL Montreal beats Ottawa in OT before record crowd in capital – Sportsnet.ca

'I've never seen anything like this': Inside Ottawa's record-breaking PWHL night

On Tuesday night, the PWHL’s Ottawa team set a record for attendance at a professional women’s hockey game. Here's how they pulled it off.

theathletic.com

 

[Machinehead]

Apparently the New York team will be playing some games at UBS. Now that, I'm interested in.

 

[93gilmour93]

I watched two periods of the Montreal Ottawa game yesterday to give it a chance. The product is not good to watch compared to men's hockey. Everything from skating, shooting, passing, physicality and entertainment as a whole is lacking. I may go check out a game live this year to see what it's like in the arena for atmosphere but I found it pretty boring to watch last night

 

[Golden_Jet]

So there is body checking allowed. Had to check as the first 2 games seemed like there was.

according to the rulebook released earlier Monday. Body checking is allowed when “there is a clear intention of playing the puck or attempting to gain possession of the puck,” according to the rulebook.

 

[MikeyMike01]

Why is zero the lowest option? It grossly overstates my interest.

 

[tarheelhockey]

One key difference being that if you aren't into F1 or another sport you can just ignore it and not consume any of that content. In the context of the PWHL, Sportsnet, as an example, is likely going to try to make it part of every single NHL broadcast for the rest of the season, so it's a bit harder to simply ignore like you are suggesting.

Other sports including F1 are advertised and cross-branded during NHL broadcasts all the time. Those who don’t like F1 just ignore it and turn their attention to other things. Likewise, if you are dead-set against being at all interested in women’s hockey, just ignore the cross-branding like you would do for any other sport.

If you find it hard to break your attention away from it, if you find that it cuts through the white noise and actively seizes your attention in a way you can’t ignore, then it sounds like the issue is not with the marketing strategy but with a personal trigger you might be carrying toward women(‘s sports).

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

They showed some PWHL highlights in between periods of the NHL games so I feel like I've done my part as an upstanding citizen and hockey fan by letting myself watch them

 

[tarheelhockey]

If you're wondering why I used underwater welder it's because it's straight up the most dangerous job in the world. It has a 15% fatality rate. Basically on your 7th day of work, there's a strong possibility someone you have seen has died at the job site.

That’s not how fatality rates work. If it were true, there would be no more underwater welders alive.

 

[JMCx4]

They showed some PWHL highlights in between periods of the NHL games so I feel like I've done my part as an upstanding citizen and hockey fan by letting myself watch them

And now that you've typed "PWHL" in a post, you have been identified as a fan of the League & will be subjected to a lifetime of advertising for the product. Welcome to the club!

 

[TLEH]

I don't think the quality of the hockey is all that good but I still hope they succeed. I won't be watching but its important to have idols and for young girls to have people to look up to and relate to.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Well, to be honest I don't believe any professional athlete has any business earing what they earn. Hockey players are the closest of the big 4 to making what they deserve but it's still too much. But those are my sentiments and capitalism had other plans.

Don't even get me started on the concept of some f***ing guy making more in one year than say an underwater welder would if they worked 15 years because they and get this, "throw a ball well". Sorry did I say 15 years? What I meant to say was 30 years. Last year, Chris f***ing Sale made as much as an underwater welder makes in 30 years, or, their entire career.

If you're wondering why I used underwater welder it's because it's straight up the most dangerous job in the world. It has a 15% fatality rate. Basically on your 7th day of work, there's a strong possibility someone you have seen has died at the job site.

But you want to know the real f***ing sick thing? I lied. Yeah, it wouldn't take 30 years for an underwater welder to make $30 million. I'm a bit high and realized that math is wrong. I'm missing a zero!

TL;DR It would take 300 years (or 10 careers-worth) for someone who tickle death's taint every single day to make as much as a guy who can throw a f***ing ball pretty good.

lol, that’s assuming one welder dies a week.

 

[David Suzuki]

if the montreal team wins i’ll watch the last minute of the last gsme to feel something

 

[Suntouchable13]

At least people that are running this league are smarter than the NHL people. The 3-2-1 point system is a very smart idea. I wonder why the NHL never thought of it before.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Hitting is not allowed per the rules Just the refs following their own rules.

False, hitting is allowed. Maybe read up on the rules and a bit of background work, before you jump to all your wrong conclusions.

according to the rulebook released earlier Monday. Body checking is allowed when “there is a clear intention of playing the puck or attempting to gain possession of the puck,” according to the rulebook.

Funny you should mention that ... PWHL Ottawa assistant captain Jincy Roese played for the St. Louis AAA Blues team before she moved on to the World Juniors squad then to the Ohio State Buckeyes. Small world, huh?

Ya on the same team as Matthew Tkachuk at one time, Brady played a game or 2 with her as well, when he played up an age group, during injuries.

 

[Dessloch]

False, hitting is allowed. Maybe read up on the rules and a bit of background work, before you jump to all your wrong conclusions.

according to the rulebook released earlier Monday. Body checking is allowed when “there is a clear intention of playing the puck or attempting to gain possession of the puck,” according to the rulebook.

Yeah, and then there is a bunch of other if and buts below that makes it unclear to anyone whats exactly allowed and not allowed. I even posted a PR of the rule several pages back in the thread.

If it would be like the quote you bolded you would not need a page with more talk about hitting.

Your quote in bold makes every hit legal as every time someone has the puck you can hit them and say your intention was to play the puck or gain the puck from seeking out the player who currently has the puck. If it was that simple they could have the rules say: "hitting is allowed" without any more exceptions etc.

 

[Rob Brown]

Other sports including F1 are advertised and cross-branded during NHL broadcasts all the time. Those who don’t like F1 just ignore it and turn their attention to other things. Likewise, if you are dead-set against being at all interested in women’s hockey, just ignore the cross-branding like you would do for any other sport.

If you find it hard to break your attention away from it, if you find that it cuts through the white noise and actively seizes your attention in a way you can’t ignore, then it sounds like the issue is not with the marketing strategy but with a personal trigger you might be carrying toward women(‘s sports).

Sorry, but there is no comparison between the F1 and PWHL in this context. I don't even know what you mean by 'cross-branding during NHL broadcasts' - do you mean in-house Sportsnet ads/promotion of live F1 events during the commercial breaks of NHL games? Because that isn't quite what the discussion was about in the context of cross-promotion between the NHL and PWHL, not to mention the fact that the NHL itself is promoting the PWHL during NHL events, which it obviously doesn't for F1.

To be clear, I have no problem with women's sports. Seems like maybe you just read my one post and assumed I'm anti-women which isn't the case and quite frankly pretty lazy, offensive, and unnecessary on your part. I was responding to someone who said 'if you don't like women's hockey then just ignore it and don't consume the content like I do with F1', and personally I found that to be a pretty irrelevant and disingenuous comparison. You can choose not to watch F1 events (as in don't turn on that channel while it's live), but there will likely be instances where someone can be consuming NHL content and still be exposed to PWHL content. That's all I meant, but it seems like you took it to mean something far more nefarious.

 

[MXD]

To be clear, I have no problem with women's sports. Seems like maybe you just read my one post and assumed I'm anti-women which isn't the case and quite frankly pretty lazy, offensive, and unnecessary on your part. I was responding to someone who said 'if you don't like women's hockey then just ignore it and don't consume the content like I do with F1', and personally I found that to be a pretty irrelevant and disingenuous comparison. You can choose not to watch F1 events (as in don't turn on that channel while it's live), but there will likely be instances where someone can be consuming NHL content and still be exposed to PWHL content. That's all I meant, but it seems like you took it to mean something far more nefarious.

I mean, what's your opinion on gambling?