OT: New York Riveters/NY area women's hockey discussion

[silverfish]

@Ori hoping most of that post was in jest....

4 teams. Expansion is on the horizon. My guess is Pittsburgh. The league is growing, though. They just got their first partnership with an NHL team between the Riveters and the Devils. I think the Sabres and Bruins follow suit soon.

This is a tough year for the league because a lot of the top-talent is taking the year off to play with the women's National team, so the league is missing a lot of superstar firepower this year. Not totally a bad thing, because it gives a lot of the other players who are definitely good enough to play in the league their time to shine.

It's good hockey.

Tune in this weekend!

 

[Ori]

Yeah, it was a jest - not too serious.

 

[silverfish]

3-0. The team to beat this year.

 

[silverfish]

Gameday bump. Rivs @ Beauts live now

 

[Inferno]

How big is the league now @silverfish ?
I had never thought the interest would be big enough for women to play hockey, but my vision is very limited. I mostly see women in the kitchen and bathroom, and vacation, or while sleeping good to have a woman nearby.

how unbelievably sexist of you. my wifes a hockey player...shes WAY better than me.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Beauts goaltending made me sad last night.

I was there last night, in a gray Rangers hoody. I’m in that video stream somewhere.

Elia in Buffalo is a monster. Probably the most physically geared player they have.

 

[silverfish]

Beauts goaltending made me sad last night.

I was there last night, in a gray Rangers hoody. I’m in that video stream somewhere.

Elia in Buffalo is a monster. Probably the most physically geared player they have.

I don't know if it was so much the Beauts goaltending as it was the Rivs skill. They are terrorizing the league right now.

League's top-5 scorers are all Riveters. Gruschow, D'Oench, Burke, Russo, Ryan.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Yeah but the goalie had some bad breaks too. She was pretty awesome outside of about half the goals IMO. I got to meet some after the game too. Really awesome players and people. Gruschow looks awesome out there though. She was a menace.

 

[silverfish]

Hop on, y'all, this league is going places.

 

[Mac n Gs]

Good to see that. The Devils partnership with the Riveters has been great too

 

[silverfish]

Olympic team just cut Bozek and Carpenter lmao. That's.... well, something. If they don't win gold, people are going to look at this.

My guess is Bozek comes back to the NWHL for the Beauts. Carpenter's "rights" belong to the new CWHL team in China where her dad is a coach. She'll probably go there.

These are massive surprising cuts for this team. I'm shook.

 

[Mac n Gs]

Uh, isn’t Bozek their best defender?

 

[silverfish]

Uh, isn’t Bozek their best defender?

I'm a huge Emily Pfalzer fan, but Bozek is definitely up there. Has maybe the hardest shot in the women's game.

These cuts are mind-blowing. Carpenter is easily one of the US's best forwards. Makes no sense. Like the issue with the men's team has been recently. It's like they're trying to build the 'right' team rather than the 'best' team. Hanging on to MIRACLE a bit too much. Give me the 20 best players every time, and if I can't make it work, then I'm not a good coach.

 

[Mac n Gs]

I'm a huge Emily Pfalzer fan, but Bozek is definitely up there. Has maybe the hardest shot in the women's game.

These cuts are mind-blowing. Carpenter is easily one of the US's best forwards. Makes no sense. Like the issue with the men's team has been recently. It's like they're trying to build the 'right' team rather than the 'best' team. Hanging on to MIRACLE a bit too much. Give me the 20 best players every time, and if I can't make it work, then I'm not a good coach.

I think there’s a slight balance to be had, but your best players are your best players. For example, you never choose an Abdelkader at the expense of a Phil Kessel.

But maybe a Jordan Greenway over a Debrincat

 

[Made Dan]

Great news for the Beauts and just massive news for the league. Excited to see if/where they expand in the near future...

 

[Machinehead]

They even wear black and red jerseys now? I just can't.

I used to be really into it but I just can't.

 

[silverfish]

They even wear black and red jerseys now? I just can't.

I used to be really into it but I just can't.

Don't blame the Rivs for the sins of the Rangers.

 

[Machinehead]

Don't blame the Rivs for the sins of the Rangers.

It has everything to do with the Devils. If they were an Islanders affiliate and wearing orange it would be totally cool.

It comes down to respect. I have zero respect for the New Jersey Devils.

I've had my share of questionable partnerships. I'm a Liverpool fan and a Yankees fan even though Liverpool is owned by the Red Sox. But if I was a Major League Baseball player, I would be honored and humbled to play for the Boston Red Sox. If I was an NHL player, and only choice was to play for the Devils, then I announce my retirement.

 

[silverfish]

Rivs are back. Looking to stay undefeated against the Whale

NWHL: Connecticut vs. New York

 

[silverfish]

Save of the year

 

[silverfish]

Team NWHL played team USA today in an exhibition and held them scoreless through two periods, and ultimately lost 3-0. There are two sides of the coin to this:

1) Incredible for women's hockey the parity that exists considering there is superstar talent in the CWHL and playing for the Minnesota Whitecaps
2) Gotta be slightly worried for team USA. I'd imagine they were thinking how much they could use Carpenter during that second intermission.

 

[silverfish]

North and South Korea fielding a joint women's ice hockey team. Once again, women's hockey ahead of the curve in almost every imaginable way.

I really need to get a second monitor and start tracking this league.

 

[silverfish]

Hilary Knight is gonna crush the Olympics this year.

 

[nyr2k2]

It's too bad, I read literally NOTHING about this league. If not for this thread I wouldn't know it existed. I mean there may have been a story on Deadspin a while back that mentioned it, but that's been it.

 

[silverfish]

It's too bad, I read literally NOTHING about this league. If not for this thread I wouldn't know it existed. I mean there may have been a story on Deadspin a while back that mentioned it, but that's been it.

There's good coverage out there, it's just very niche. None of the "big time" media players in hockey talk about it, though, and it's a shame.

Mike Murphy who does some Rangers blogging recently put out a couple of good tweets on Twitter people to follow for league coverage...


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And there are games today and tomorrow!

Today: CT @ BUF 1pm | NY @ BOS 730p
Tomorrow: BOS @ NY 3p

Today's games are streaming on the NWHL website. I believe tomorrow's game will be streaming on Twitter live.