2023 Womens Worlds and U18 Women’s Worlds

[BowWowWow]

Hilary Knight is the inaugural IIHF Female Player of the Year, after her hat trick in the Worlds gold medal game! (IIHF story)

 

[Steamboat]

Hilary Knight is the inaugural IIHF Female Player of the Year, after her hat trick in the Worlds gold medal game! (IIHF story)

This quote from the story encapsulates what we on this forum strive for: “The sport and the women who play it deserve the largest stage and biggest spotlight...” That was Hilary Knight.

 

[Lindsay]

https://teamusa.usahockey.com/news_article/show/1278818

Wroblewski hired through 2026 for the US national team. Super interesting as this is territory the US National Team has not embraced for some time, such a long commitment to a coach.

Ian Kennedy of THN listed him as a possible head coach in the pro league as well.

 

[top cheese]

This quote from the story encapsulates what we on this forum strive for: “The sport and the women who play it deserve the largest stage and biggest spotlight...” That was Hilary Knight.

Seems like this may or may not be the direction that this is all moving. A whole generation of girls are taking a risk on, what in hockey terms would be called a 'hope play'! Hoping that this is the end result with no timetable. Right now all that seems obvious is that the new NoName League, under one owner, is taking this into an area that they have no specific experience in, and an entire generation of women are going to take a hit and hope that this is the eventual result. In the mean time, the new owner has already broken early promises (transitioning staff from the PHF...), and many of them who had signed life-changing contracts will actually end up unemployed and out of hockey with the cancellation of those contracts. The pool of professional women playing will be cut drastically without a clear cut approach how these decisions will be made and who will judge who makes the grade and who doesn't, something that's never been done before in sports to my knowledge.

 

[ZedLeppelin]

The pool of professional women playing will be cut drastically without a clear cut approach how these decisions will be made and who will judge who makes the grade and who doesn't, something that's never been done before in sports to my knowledge.

Wouldn't you expect the coaching staffs/management on the six teams to decide who makes the grade? Or am I missing something?

 

[BowWowWow]

Wouldn't you expect the coaching staffs/management on the six teams to decide who makes the grade? Or am I missing something?

Yes, you would expect that, and one issue still is who the teams' staff and management will be. Also, from a quote from the PHF's Reagan Carey to PHF players and staff, there will be a committee to help evaluate players:

The new ownership group is committed to a fair selection process, and in support of that commitment, a Player Evaluation Advisory Committee will be created with balanced representation to ensure a thorough and fair assessment is in place which will allow this new league to feature the best players

That's from The Hockey News. Writing to players and staff, though, Carey also said “with limited exceptions” PHF staff would be offered substantially similar roles in the new league by July 10. This wasn't true, and the recent firings (with a few league staff retained) raise the question of what former-PHF people could be on that committee.

The collective bargaining unit and management are supposed to decide by July 22 on the structure of possible drafts and free agency, which the CBA does not cover.

 

[Timothy A]

Seems like this may or may not be the direction that this is all moving. A whole generation of girls are taking a risk on, what in hockey terms would be called a 'hope play'! Hoping that this is the end result with no timetable. Right now all that seems obvious is that the new NoName League, under one owner, is taking this into an area that they have no specific experience in, and an entire generation of women are going to take a hit and hope that this is the eventual result. In the mean time, the new owner has already broken early promises (transitioning staff from the PHF...), and many of them who had signed life-changing contracts will actually end up unemployed and out of hockey with the cancellation of those contracts. The pool of professional women playing will be cut drastically without a clear cut approach how these decisions will be made and who will judge who makes the grade and who doesn't, something that's never been done before in sports to my knowledge.

Void all the player contracts and just have each team do a draft. Or you can allow a few keepers for each team like in fantasy football and draft the rest.

 

[PuckLover]

O20 festival invites announced yesterday: https://teamusa.usahockey.com/2023womensfestivalroster

 

[BowWowWow]

Void all the player contracts and just have each team do a draft. Or you can allow a few keepers for each team like in fantasy football and draft the rest.

Okay, fantasy-meister; here is my hypothetical roster of 23—partly as a Yale and eastern fan!
G – Aerin Frankel, Kassidy Sauve, Blanka Škodova
D – Jaime Bourbonnais, Megan Keller, Maude Poulin-Labelle, Emma Seitz, Lee Stecklein, Saroya Tinker, Olivia Zafuto
F – Emily Clark, Claire Dalton, Jessie Eldridge, Loren Gabel, Elizabeth Giguere, Becca Gilmore, Celina Haider, Brittany Howard, Emma Nuutinen, Jamie Lee Rattray, Abby Roque, Daryl Watts, Charlotte Welch
I also created a general list of players who may be available to play in the new league (Google Drive pdf 7/13/23). The sources are various rosters, PHF and PWHPA sites, the elite prospects site, and The Hockey News “prospects” lists. Also noted are whether the players are at the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival this August, whether they were at their country’s latest Worlds, and whether they just graduated.

 

[vicb]

Goal
Aerin Frankel
Ann-Renee Desbiens
Kristen Campbell

Defense
Erin Ambrose
Jaime Bourbonnais
Jocelyne Larocque
Lee Stecklein
Megan Keller
Renata Fast
Savannah Harmon
Ella Shelton

Forward
Abby Roque
Alina Muller
Brianne Jenner
Chloe Aurard
Daryl Watts
Elizabeth Giguere
Hilary Knight
Jamie Lee Rattray
Loren Gabel
Marie-Philip Poulin
Taylor Heise
Victoria Bach