Women's Hockey
Alexa Aramburu’s Incredible Journey
December 2nd, 2018 This season Alexa Aramburu is one of two players (Rebecca Morse) on the Metropolitan Riveters from the state of New Jersey, but it wasn’t exactly a dream of hers growing up to play for a pro team in her home state. The 23-year-old from Glen Rock dreamed of playing in...
Hanna Sköld of Leksands IF Goes One-On-One
November 27th, 2018 The 2018-19 SDHL (Svenska damhockeyligan) season has been well underway, with most of the league's teams already having played roughly 20 games, give or take. Of the 10 teams, Leksands IF sits in fourth place among the standings as of Nov. 26, 2018 with a record of 14 wins...
Sass & Richards Lead Riveters to First Home Win
November 26th, 2018 In her first start of the season for the Metropolitan Riveters, Kimberly Sass made 33 saves and then stopped all three Connecticut Whale shooters during the shootout to secure her team’s first home win of the season. The Rivs won 4-3 but had to rally from a 3-2 deficit...
Q & A With the Connecticut Whale’s Kayla Meneghin
November 21st, 2018 For the second consecutive season, the Connecticut Whale have revamped a large part of their roster and one of the newcomers who made her pro debut last month is Kayla Meneghin from Clifton, New Jersey. The 23-year-old had a stellar career at SUNY-Plattsburgh where she won...
Czech Veronika Lorencová Wants to Play in the NCAA
November 20th, 2018 There are Czech hockey players in the NWHL this season for the very first time. Czechs have been in the CWHL before too. Various NCAA women's hockey programs have scouted them and brought them aboard, including the University of Maine Black Bears, the University of...
NWHL All-Stars Headed to Nashville in 2019
November 14th, 2018 For the third consecutive season, the NWHL is taking it’s All-Star Weekend on the road to a neutral location. The game in 2017 was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the 2018 game was in St. Paul, Minnesota; in 2019 on Feb. 9-10 the NWHL will be taking their All-Stars...
Olympic Gold Medalist Botterill Joining MSG's Isles Coverage
November 12th, 2018 One of the most professional and endearing persons in the hockey community today has joined the New York Islanders broadcast team. On Nov. 12, 2018, MSG Networks announced that they had added three-time Canadian Olympic Gold medalist Jennifer Botterill to their broadcast...
The Whale's Mrazová: Opening Doors for Czech Women's Hockey
November 8th, 2018 The Connecticut Whale have seemingly set the standard for European influx into women's professional hockey in North America. The Whale presently have players from Russia, Sweden, Finland, and the Czech Republic on their 2018-19 NWHL roster. They are the first NWHL team in...
Marie-Philip Poulin: Fun Facts With the Captain of Les Canadiennes
November 6th, 2018 Through six games of the 2018-19 CWHL season, Les Canadiennes de Montréal captain Marie-Philip Poulin has six assists. An assist per game is nothing new for her, but it is a reminder of how exceptional of a player - particularly a playmaker - she truly is. Not only is the...
Thunstrom Bringing the Lightning and Thunder for Whitecaps
October 27th, 2018 Allie Thunstrom is taking the NWHL by storm (pun intended) and with her lightning fast speed she already has four points (2g-2a) in her first four games and has fired 12 shots on goal. Her Minnesota Whitecaps have started their inaugural campaign as a pro team with a...
Julia DiTondo: No Overlooking the Beauts' Third Goalie
October 26th, 2018 Sometimes it seems odd to fathom that legendary goalie Shannon Szabados and recent USA Olympic gold medalist Nicole Hensley are each playing in their first professional seasons. The Buffalo Beauts netminders are quite conceivably the best goaltending tandem in all of...
Beauts' Burns in Familiar Territory
October 23rd, 2018 The Buffalo Beauts are heading to Minnesota for their first two meetings against the Whitecaps this season. Both currently undefeated teams are set to face each other in back-to-back contests on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28 at Minnesota's TRIA Orthopedic Rink in St. Paul. But of all...
One League: Beyond the Obvious of Merging NWHL/CWHL
October 19th, 2018 Timing is everything. People tend to want instant gratification, or to know that important matters will be resolved in short order. Whether we like it or not, that is not always the case - and that's okay. For a number of months we have heard the cry of "one league" - the...
