Bird on Ice

They/Them "I'm always watching Jamie Lee Rattray" Mostly hockey (PWHL) blog for ASingingPenguin. Fleet fan first and foremost, but I love players on all teams. I also watch AUSL for the Chicago Bandits!

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PWHL Play-Index

The Hockey-Reference for the PWHL — filter, sort, and export event-level data.

Really cool PWHL draft dash board that includes every players stats and is easy to sort!

[downwiththefleet]

For some positive Fleet news today, assistant coach Stefanie McKeough was recently on a podcast where she talks about her journey from youth hockey in Ottawa to Wisconsin to coaching in the PWHL. It is a really great listen if you have the time!

Watch it on Youtube here or it is also on Spotify

Some highlights from the pod:

Meghan Duggan and Vicky Sunohara were role models for her

The Fleet equipment managers rank the popcorn at each arena

She never considered coaching until suffering a career ending injury

She moved to a town in Sweden with 85 people to escape Hockey

Googled the local girls team to volunteer and ended up with a coaching job in the SDHL

Moved back and coached at UOttawa during Covid

Courtney Kessel texted her the day after the inaugural draft saying the league was legit, and convinced her to come to Boston

A film crew followed the team every day of year 1, making the Rise documentary, but it was originally supposed to be much longer

Cassie Campbell-Pascall signed autographs for 4 hours in a McDonald's after winning worlds

Some college coaches drove into the Carlsbad Springs ditches trying to get to her house for recruiting visits

Doesn't think she's a brilliant tactician but focuses on building player trust and buy-in to the system

A big step for her as a coach was learning how to teach others how she sees the game

[midwesticebird]

Official Müller gone now. Gonna start that walk into Lake Michigan. Anyone wanna join me?

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[newyorksirens]

seeing 1500 comments on the insta post announcing Britta Curl to Detroit and it's so much "oh I guess I won't be going to games" "oh I guess I'm cancelling my season ticket deposit" oh okay and then donating that money to a nonprofit/mutual aid fund that supports trans people, right? and advocating for the league to create a gender inclusion policy, right?

the way pwhl fans have made Britta Curl the scapegoat for the league will never not piss me off, not because I agree with her beliefs, but because by scapegoating one player and directing all your attention to loudly hating her you don't actually do anything real.

Also, aside from the fact that Britta Curl is not the only player with her beliefs in the league, I actually don't think yelling at the league to fire her is productive! I actually don't think a business should be allowed to discriminate against employees based on their political beliefs! I think that's a dangerous precedent to set, personally!

Like you don't have to spend your money in support of a franchise with players who are loud about politics you don't agree with. But saying they don't deserve to pay their bills and feed themselves is not exactly the most progressive take either.

I am once again coming #onhere to remind people that if you don't love trans people more than you hate transphobes your outrage is performative at best and I'm tired of seeing it constantly in pwhl fan spaces

[midwesticebird]

I just saw the Müller news. I'm going to just start walking into lake Michigan never to be seen again.

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Can't have shit in Detroit. What terrible news after a terrible game. Like fuck OFF the closest team to me took her.

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[midwesticebird]

Detroit teasing they are announcing signings when I'm about to leave to go play hockey is torture.

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[midwesticebird]

Torrent and CJ fans, I did want to share one thing we talked about today. They said they are really hoping with the expansion happening they might be able to get a spot as a second or even first string. I got the impression if they have a chance to see more ice time they will take it. They also said they planned to play until they can't anymore, or they stop having fun, which they sure don't see the latter happening any time soon.

[dykeslovehockey]

jessie eldridge jill saulnier jamie lee rattray and alina müller will stay in boston. everyone start posting about how awful our power play is and how most of our wins are only with 1-2 goals nowww

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