I was at the Toronto/Montreal game last year and had a great time.

With how packed the lower bowl was, I'm kinda shocked that we didn't get a game this year (unless the logic is the league already knows they want a team here, so might as well test some other waters).

I hope that's not wishful thinking as a PWHL team here would definitely soften the blow of the active re-build.

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  2. This sucks. We went to the game last year and had a great time. My daughter made dozens of bracelets and gave them away and traded them with other kids; the atmosphere was so fun. I thought the crowd size was decent and the energy was definitely high so this is disappointing.

  3. I don’t feel like they marketed the game last year all that well, doing it on St. Patty’s weekend didn’t help. I bought tickets but ended up being out of town that weekend so I’m bummed I won’t get to go this year. There are other dates on the schedule with venue TBA so I guess hope is not lost.

  4. I have a feeling they’re gonna use this to gauge who teams 7 and 8 will be.

    I would almost certainly bet it’s St. Louis and Quebec City. St. Louis for being their first ‘southern’ market and Quebec to capitalize on the NHL refusing to go there.

    And for the fact that they’ll have the best team in PQ at that point based on how the toilet seats have been playing. They look like *us* rn

  5. I ended up watching a LOT of PWHL games last year on YT.

    1) Lot more physical than I expected. No, they weren’t dropping the gloves and throwing hands, but they were laying out and knocking each other around.

    2) Wasn’t just dump-n-chase. Lots of passes (reminded me of the Penguins PP last year), and some great rushes.

    3) The jerseys. Thank the LORD they have buried last year’s abominations next to the Ark of the Covenant. I get the league was a bit rushed, but in the immortal words of Will Smith from MIB1: ‘Dayam”.

    4) I definitely think Pittsburgh could support a team.

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