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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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.
Purple Posts, a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in the history of women’s hockey, is back! This time, LJ is joined by Eleni Demestihas, Director of Hockey Operations for Cook Stark Hockey, to talk about some infamous USA-Canada brawls, how increased physicality is changing the women’s game, and which players are most likely to throw down.
You can watch the full clip of the December 2013 fight here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cks76
You can find Eleni’s original article for TIG about the fight here: https://www.theicegarden.com/law-and-boarder-breaking-down-a-legendary-usa-canada-brawl-womens-hockey/
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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
Special guests Eleni, the director of hockey operations at Cook Stark Hockey, and Elisha, Ice Garden writer/future PWHL insider, join host Geremy to discuss the Vancouver expansion into the PWHL. They discuss the implications, who should be thrilled by this news, and a surprise name they'd like to see as a GM candidate.
Geremy gathers a few of The Ice Garden's writers to preview the 2025 IIHF Women's World Championships, taking place in Czechia. The group looks at the 10 teams who will face in the annual tournament.
In a special one-off podcast, host Geremy is joined by The Ice Garden NCAA expert writers Giselle, Emma, and Angelica to discuss the recent NCAA National Tournament round by round Giselle, Emma, and Angelica go over the regional semifinals, regional finals, Frozen Four semifinal and of course the big game, the NCAA National Championship game. Hear their thoughts on what players stood out, their opinion on the match-ups, how those match-ups played out, and more!
Mike from The Ice Garden and Eleni, a player agent and partner of Cook Stark Hockey, discuss the far-from-transparent nature of restricted free agency in women's hockey. They dive into how restricted free agency and other contracts might work if there is an expansion draft, and discuss what money is guaranteed when a player signs a standard player agreement (SPA). In other words, what happens when a player who signed a SPA becomes a reserve player?
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.