Spencer Fascetta

DeMarinis Named to NEWHA All-Rookie Team, McDonald Lands Sportswomanship Nod

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#smcpks #smcvt #ncaahockey

Saint Michael’s Women’s Hockey goalie Annika Lavender watches the game from the penalty box while serving a 5 minute major against Franklin Pierce University.

If you were wondering how things went last weekend…

Women’s ice hockey caps a weekend series at Assumption at 2:20 p.m.

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Ultimately the right call, but I can’t figure out WHAT she injured to be in that level of pain.

Apropos, the best election postmortem I’ve read dropped today. It’s also more than a postmortem; it’s a deeper long-term analysis, and quite compelling.

The article is by @eladn.bsky.social and well worth the long read.

open.substack.com/pub/eladneho...

Outstanding book, the miniseries was mediocre at best.

No no, say more king

PWHL Roster Structure: A Data-Driven Approach Using Sportlogiq data to project contract values and team structure

For the upcoming PWHL, I created some roster projections based on quantified player performance. Read the methodology and see the pretty plots in the article: www.theicegarden.com/pwhl-roster-...

Posted this over on the old hellsite but for the women's hockey people over here I made a spreadsheet of the PWHL draft eligible players. Let me know if you find errors so I can fix them! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The new PWHL collective bargaining agreement is on the league website. I'm gonna dig into it later but here it is for your reading pleasure.
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Yeah, feels like more PW pettiness combined with a weird push to have an equal number of teams on each side of the border

I believe the 6 locations tomorrow for the PWHL will be
Boston
Toronto
Montreal
Minnesota
Washington DC
New York/New Jersey
If the branding isn't kept from the Pride, Whitecaps, and Rivs, that's an absolute failure by leadership. The Force and Six are slightly newer, so I could justify those going.

From what I can gather behind the scenes, there are two prominent Americans who singlehandedly prevented any sort of cooperation or merger between the PHF and PWHPA, allowing this to happen. And it’s the exact two you think it is.

i know there's a lot of excitement around the new women's hockey league, but i just struggle to get onboard with an ownership group who basically pretended to be both a partner and competitor w/ both the PWHPA and PHF to lock in a sweetheart CBA under the guise of progress.

What It Looks Like When Trans Kids Are Simply Allowed to Play Sports “There’s truly nothing quite like experiencing this beautiful, almost magical sense of belonging.”

For SELF, I highlighted the trans kids who don’t make the news, whose stories might go otherwise unheard: the ones who are already out there playing on teams with their friends, winning and losing without incident.

https://www.self.com/story/trans-kids-playing-sports

Literally spent a month doing this for my own project this year

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