Posts About "Ashley Johnston"
Metropolitan Riveters: 2018 Isobel Cup Champs
March 27th, 2018 Three years time to reach a pinnacle in hockey can feel like eons. Especially when during the first two of those three years a team has poured its heart and soul into a victory mission, only to fall short of even making the championship round. It hurts - almost to the point of having your guts bruised - and it is even more wearying if...
Riveters Re-Sign Captain, Complete Goalie Puzzle
May 25th, 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 the Buffalo Beauts begin defense of their Isobel Cup...
Riveters Roundup: Taylor Nets Her First
December 13th, 2016 The New York Riveters played their final home game of 2016, falling to the Connecticut Whale 4-2, but despite the final score, there were a bunch of positives to take away from the game with a rematch next week on the road. Taylor Holze netted her first career goal for one, which is a great story of endurance and passion as she has...
Riveters Roundup: Fritz-Ward Retires
December 6th, 2016 After losing by a 5-3 score on Saturday night to the Buffalo Beauts, the New York Riveters fell in a Sunday shootout, 3-2, against the Boston Pride. Although they only gained one of a possible four points over the weekend, the biggest story on and off the ice was the retirement of fan-favorite and one of the original Riveters: Morgan...
Russo & Riveters Rally Together
November 22nd, 2016 The New York Riveters had been through a lot this past week, as had all of the players in the NWHL when the news broke that the second-year league would be forcing a pay cut in order to keep from folding. But maybe for the Riveters, more than the other three teams, this can be a rallying point – for their team more than any of the...
Desperate NWHL Cuts Player Salaries
November 18th, 2016 The NWHL, the first professional women's hockey league in North America to pay players, is facing some tough financial realities. They announced Friday they will be slashing player salaries for the remainder of the season because of lower than expected revenue during the first stretch of the league's second season. On a conference...
Riveters Re-Sign Ashley Johnston, Kiira Dosdall
April 12th, 2016 The New York Riveters have re-signed defensemen Ashley Johnston and Kiira Dosdall to matching one-year contracts worth $13,500, the team announced Tuesday. Johnston and Dosdall are the team's two key defensemen, making these signings big for the team that finished at the bottom of the NWHL standings last season. Johnston also served...
Tatiana Rafter: My Life as a Pro, Behind the Scenes - Isobel Cup Edition
March 18th, 2016 Tatiana Rafter is a pioneer — a professional hockey player for the Buffalo Beauts in the NWHL. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, she has uprooted her life to follow her dream of playing professional hockey on the other side of the continent. Surely the 24-year-old has been through ups and downs, highs and lows since the inaugural NWHL...
Riveters Blow Lead, Fall to Beauts in Wild Game
January 19th, 2016 After scoring five goals through two periods — their most goals in a game since scoring seven against the same opponent on December 27 — the New York Riveters couldn’t hold off the hard-charging Buffalo Beauts and dropped a wildly entertaining 6-5 game in a shootout. Playing in their first home game in two weeks the Riveters...
Here Come the Riveters
November 21st, 2015 Sunday's game was, as newly minted captain Ashley Johnston said after the game, "an identity game" for the New York Riveters. They were one of two teams across the NWHL entering Sunday's play without a win on the season, facing the undefeated Boston Pride who bested the Rivs 7-1 in their only match of the season. The Riveters had...
Best NWHL Stats This Week: Riveting Hockey
November 16th, 2015 Here's our game weekend check-in on the best NWHL stats from the last week of play. Riveting Hockey The New York Riveters grabbed their first win in franchise history. It was a big day and as these things go with the league in its first league, special marks keep getting set. It wasn't only the first win in franchise history, it...
