Metropolitan Riveters
3 Reasons the Riveters Will Win the Isobel Cup
March 21st, 2018 This season the Metropolitan Riveters had their best season ever, finishing in first place in the NWHL standings with a 13-3-0 record; in their two previous seasons, they totaled 12 wins. Their team dominated the league in just about every statistical category from the...
2018 NWHL Opening Round Preview: Riveters vs Whale
March 15th, 2018 In each of the first two playoffs of their existence there has been an upset in NWHL postseason play - thanks to the Buffalo Beauts who advanced to back-to-back Isobel Cup Finals as a 3-seed. Last season they pulled off two upsets as they stunned the Boston Pride in the...
Hillary Crowe Joins Riveters
March 3rd, 2018 On February 22 the Metropolitan Riveters signed forward Hillary Crowe to a contract for the rest of the 2017-18 NWHL season. The natural connection is that Crowe knows Miye D’Oench and Michelle Picard from their time as teammates at Harvard University, but there was...
Tatiana Rafter’s Riveting Season
February 5th, 2018 Throughout the Metropolitan Riveters 11-1-0 start, there are many different storylines to be told and one of them is the story of third-year NWHLer Tatiana Rafter. It’s not just her production on the ice where she is one point away from last season’s total with four...
Behind the Mask with Kimberly Sass
January 22nd, 2018 After taking a year off to focus on her career off the ice goaltender Kimberly Sass is back in the NWHL, this time with the Metropolitan Riveters - after suiting up in the first season of the league with the Buffalo Beauts. It can be tough not playing regularly and being...
Q & A with Kelsey Koelzer of the Riveters
December 24th, 2017 We’ve done countless interviews over the years in a variety of places - locker rooms, next to the rink, under the stands, on the ice - but when we spoke on the bench with Kelsey Koelzer (a defender for the Metropolitan Riveters) literally five minutes before the start of...
Alexa Gruschow: Most Valuable Riveter
November 2nd, 2017 Coaches love versatile players. A player they can use in all situations with the utmost confidence that they will get the job done, whatever the job may be. That’s exactly what Chad Wiseman, the coach of the Metropolitan Riveters, has in second-year forward Alexa...
Riveters Reload For a Cup Run
September 11th, 2017 From May 1-31 NWHL teams can re-sign players from their 2016-17 roster and their draft picks during the restricted free agency period, and beginning on June 1 any unsigned players left will be free to sign with any team. The third season of the NWHL will begin on October 28...
Browne Joins Rivs as Wash Leaves, Whale Add Two
August 18th, 2017 From May 1-31 NWHL teams can re-sign players from their 2016-17 roster and their draft picks during the restricted free agency period, and beginning on June 1 any unsigned players left will be free to sign with any team. The third season of the NWHL will begin on October 28...
NY Riveters' Rebecca Russo: "Beloved By Fans"
August 12th, 2017 Every NWHL player has their own relationship with fans. This is something that the league's athletes do most well. Arguably, better than any other professional league. Signing autographs, posing for photos along the glass, hugging the little ones. The fact that the players...
Madison Packer: the People’s Choice
August 5th, 2017 After two years of giving her blood, sweat, and tears to the New York Riveters and the NWHL Madison Packer retired from playing professional hockey this past spring. Unlike Kelley Steadman (who we wrote about in this space a few weeks back) Packer wasn’t able to retire as...
Faber Returns to Whale, Rivs Add More D
July 30th, 2017 From May 1-31 NWHL teams can re-sign players from their 2016-17 roster and their draft picks during the restricted free agency period, and beginning on June 1 any unsigned players left will be free to sign with any team. The third season of the NWHL will begin in October as...
Badgers Reunite, Mock Goes From Yale to Whale
July 23rd, 2017 From May 1-31 NWHL teams can re-sign players from their 2016-17 roster and their draft picks during the restricted free agency period, and beginning on June 1 any unsigned players left will be free to sign with any team. The third season of the NWHL will begin in October as...
