On this episode of Purple Posts, host LJ is joined by Maya Smith, The Ice Garden’s Vancouver beat writer and a native Calgarian, to talk about the extensive and often-chaotic women’s hockey history of Maya’s hometown. From the old-timey Alpine Cup scene to the many leagues of the early 2000’s, and teams with names like the Calgary Grills, Oval X-Treme, and the inexplicably nicknamed Team Alberta “Honeybadgers,” Calgary has plenty of stories to dive into. Along the way, LJ and Maya do plenty of real-time research while reflecting on Maya’s youth hockey career and LJ’s lack of Canadian knowledge.
Purple Posts is a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in women’s hockey history, presented by The Ice Garden Podcast Network. If you like the show, please subscribe and leave us a five-star review. You can also follow The Ice Garden and become a paid subscriber today.
Intro and outro music: Modestly Rude by Jhovanny Fontanez © copyright 2009. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Nobuo3000/19015
Part 2 of Episode 7 features the same guests, the same hosts, and more predictions. They talk more PWHL predictions like breakout players and stats, plus some SDHL and NCAA predicitions.
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Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
Crease Huddles latest episode is a two-parter of predictions!
Geremy is joined by Meredith, LJ, and Natalia as they give their predictions and hot takes about various topics. This episode they focus on the PWHL talking about leadership groups, new rules, record setters, and more.
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Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
Crease Huddles is back, and there's a ton to cover. This episode, LJ joins Geremy to talk about hockey in Australia, who will be the last undefeated team in the NCAA, PWHL branding, and what's happening in Ottawa. Plus this past week was essentially the international break for the whole word and lot of tournaments took place with implications for future IIHF World Hockey Championships as well as the Olympics.
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Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
It's part two of Crease Huddles PWHL preview. This itme is the four Canadian team - Montreal Victoire, Ottawa Charge, the Toronto Sceptres, and Vancouver Goldeneyes. Geremy is again joined by the beat writers for each team, with the exception of Montreal - Elisha, Melissa, and Maya.
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Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
This episode of Crease Huddles is the first of a two-part series previewing the upcoming PWHL season. First up is the four USA-based teams - Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost, New York Sirens, and Seattle Torrent. For each team, Geremy is joined by one of our beat writers - Lydia, Reid, Natalia, and Silvia - to discuss the 2025-26 season!
Stay tuned for the four Canadian teams!
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Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
Crease Huddles is back for its third episode, and back in style with a special guest you'll never guess in a million tries would be on the podcast. Geremy and his guest discuss new signings, new jerseys, possible PWHL expansion, the fight at the end of the Ohio State and Minnesota game, and more!
Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
The beacons of women’s hockey news were lit so Giselle and Geremy are back with Crease Huddles Episode Two: Attack of the Schedules.
Nerding out? Yapping? Hockey bright spots? Terrible jokes? Failing to remember who plays for what team? We have all that and more waiting for your ears in this next episode. If you’re missing the PWHL as much as we are and want opinions on the latest news, you’re probably in the right place.
Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Hosted by Geremy, every episode he'll be joined by various other writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
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Don’t forget to treat your ears to the other great podcasts on The Ice Garden podcast network with Purple Posts, Pdub in Twenty, and Checking the Box.
Welcome back to Purple Posts, a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in the history of women’s hockey. On this episode, LJ and special guest Geremy present a brief history of women's hockey players who joined men’s hockey teams, just in time for the start of the NHL season. From legends of the game to names you may have forgotten, they discuss who these players played for and how they ended up there, plus their numerous achievements in the women’s game. Along the way, LJ and Geremy discuss lost moments in women’s hockey history and why minor league hockey team names rock.
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Intro and outro music: Modestly Rude by Jhovanny Fontanez © copyright 2009. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Nobuo3000/19015
In our newest women's hockey podcast, Geremy is joined by Giselle and LJ to chat not just about the PWHL, but also hockey outside of the PWHL.
The trio discuss the PWHL's possible start dates, expansion, international tournaments, who to watch in the NCAA and SDHL, and more!
Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Hosted by Geremy, every episode he'll be joined by various other writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.
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Alyssa and Maya joined forces together in Toronto earlier this summer for their first-ever in-person recording of P-Dub in Twenty where they had lots to talk about as a crazy PWHL offseason continues.
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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.
Alyssa Turner of the Ice Garden sits down with Keegan Krasne, Brand Coordinator of Sports at Upper Deck, to discuss the excitement of the launch of the highly anticipated second edition of PWHL trading cards.
From product quality and new insert designs to the growing demand from fans and collectors, they dive into every bit of the release.
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Welcome back to Purple Posts, a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in the history of women’s hockey. On this episode, LJ walks you through that time a professional women’s hockey team played their home games in a shopping mall, including the dramatic histories of both the American Dream mall and the team that called it home, the NWHL/PHF’s Metropolitan Riveters. Then, LJ is joined by Reagan Rust, a member of the 2022-23 Riveters, to talk about what it was actually like to play in the mall.
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Intro and outro music: Modestly Rude by Jhovanny Fontanez © copyright 2009. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Nobuo3000/19015
In this episode of Checking the Box, Eleni and Mike dissect the 2025 PWHL Draft, which they both believe should be renamed the PWHL Entry Draft, and talk about the three blockbuster trades that stole headlines on draft day. Our hosts also discuss what happens after a player is drafted, what it means to go undrafted, and some other key events from the draft itself, including the Ottawa Charge selecting two players from the Russian national team.
Checking the Box is co-hosted by player agent and partner of Cook Stark Hockey, Eleni Demestihas and The Ice Garden Managing Editor and owner, Mike Murphy. Checking the Box will be a monthly (roughly) PWHL and pro women's hockey-centric pod offering unique perspectives from behind the glow of a laptop screen and the agent's desk.
Welcome back to Purple Posts, a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in the history of women’s hockey. On this episode, host LJ is joined by Elisha Côté, TIG’s Ottawa Charge beat writer, to talk about the Ottawa Alerts, an early 20th-century women’s hockey team in Canada’s Capital Region, with some diversions into what it would be like to play hockey in a skirt, why Ottawa has a bad track record with sports team names, and trying to solve the mystery of a trophy’s namesake dentist.
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Intro and outro music: Modestly Rude by Jhovanny Fontanez © copyright 2009. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Nobuo3000/19015
Mike from The Ice Garden is joined by Eleni, a player agent at Cook Stark Hockey, to break down the PWHL’s first-ever expansion with the addition of Seattle and Vancouver. From navigating the exclusive signing period to preparing for the expansion draft on Monday evening, they dive into what this historic offseason looks like from the perspective of a women’s hockey agent.
Checking the Box is co-hosted by player agent and partner of Cook Stark Hockey, Eleni Demestihas and The Ice Garden Managing Editor and owner, Mike Murphy. Checking the Box will be a monthly (roughly) PWHL and pro women's hockey-centric pod offering unique perspectives from behind the glow of a laptop screen and the agent's desk.
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Harrison Browne, former professional hockey player, and Rachel Browne, Harrison's sister and investigative journalist sit down with The Ice Garden's Meredith Foster to talk about their book. Let Us Play: Winning The Battle For Gender Diverse Athletes, publishing on May 27, takes the reader beyond crass sensationalism and into the realities of history, science, and oppression for a thought-provoking and informative look at what equity should look like for athletes of all genders.
Harrison came out as transgender back in 2016 at the start of the second NWHL season. At the time he was a forward for the Buffalo Beauts; he went on to win two Isobel Cup championships, one with the Beauts in 2017 the same season he came out, and a second with the Metropolitan Riveters a year later in 2018. He retired from pro hockey following his second Isobel Cup win and currently works as an actor and filmmaker.
Welcome to the 2025 PWHL Finals! For the first time in league history we have a Canadian team in the final two teams remaining in the PWHL Playoffs. Alyssa and Maya discuss Game’s 1 and 2 of the series before they’re joined by Elisha Côté who shares her first-person experience of the highs and lows of the opening two games in Ottawa.
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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.
The 2025 PWHL Playoffs are underway and man oh man has it been a doozy. Alyssa and Maya discuss Games 1-3 in the Sceptres/Frost series before they dive into Games 1 and 2 between Montreal and Ottawa, including the infamous quadruple OT game.
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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.
After a few weeks away P-Dub in Twenty makes its return as the 2025 PWHL Playoffs are set to begin. As the regular season has come and gone, there are only four teams remaining to battle for the Walter Cup. Alyssa and Maya discuss the craziness of the final few days of the regular season before jumping into this year’s PWHL Playoff bracket.
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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.