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Wisconsin Women's Hockey 2026-27

Interesting discussion on a WI sports talk radio show this am......Does MJ belong on the Mt. Rushmore of WI coaches, pros & college? The general thought was Lombardi, Alvarez, Murphy, Holmgren. I know MJ coaches in a niche sport, but all those natties cannot be ignored! I'd go with guys who built programs with staying power. Lombardi, Alvarez, Bob Johnson, Mark Johnson. Murphy is knocking on the door.
 
Timothy A said:
Interesting discussion on a WI sports talk radio show this am......Does MJ belong on the Mt. Rushmore of WI coaches, pros & college? The general thought was Lombardi, Alvarez, Murphy, Holmgren. I know MJ coaches in a niche sport, but all those natties cannot be ignored! I'd go with guys who built programs with staying power. Lombardi, Alvarez, Bob Johnson, Mark Johnson. Murphy is knocking on the door.
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Sounds like one of those things that the person from Wisconsin posts on Twitter about her dad going to a bar every Friday night with his friends and making an itinerary of discussion topics.
 
eastcoastgopher said:
Sounds like one of those things that the person from Wisconsin posts on Twitter about her dad going to a bar every Friday night with his friends and making an itinerary of discussion topics.
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Lol. The fact that MJ & WI women's hockey was mentioned multiple times on Packer-centric Milwaukee sports radio show is a minor miracle.
 
TDM posted that Taylor and Lovell signed their nli's today. Looking for Derrenbacher, Mossey and Jovanovic to sign yet.

He also said that Pohl has signed.
 
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wildfire said:
You should be the PWHL's biggest cheerleader. The more successful the league is the more teams and games they can add. Pay could increase. A minor league AHL/ECHL type system could get started.

Then the national teams wouldn't have to dip into the college ranks.
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I'd be a fan if the ownership was structured along the lines of the Packers and the players were represented by a real union. As it stands, it's just another example of trickle-up economics. If the billionaires want a farm system, they should start one and pay for it out of their own deep pockets.
 
Ooftah said:
I'd be a fan if the ownership was structured along the lines of the Packers
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How does this change anything? Do the Packers declare a dividend paid back to share holders each year? How does it work that makes it better than a single person team owner?
 
Timothy A said:
Or do they keep those and thin the current so/jr herd? These new players on paper are upgrades over a number of players currently on the roster.
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Putting my GM non-emotional hat on, Holvenstot, RG, NG, Johnson and Jones are all less heralded than the incoming players. I hate say it, but Potter and Murphy could also go, UW is great at developing D and with Mossey and Taylor coming in it's a zero risk. That makes 7 spots for the 7 incoming players. I'd definitely want to keep Hall and Gorbotanker, scoring is always at a premium. I'm torn on McNaughton. Of course I want to keep her, but Stewart is ready. What is going to really suck is if they let loose top enders, they will certainly end up at places that will hurt UW (who will also have roster challanges), but that is why I'd go the underclassmen route to reduce the roster size.
 
Gurth 2.0 said:
I think it's pretty telling how much better the current crop of players are than most of their predecessors.

The fact that a freshman is centering a top line for Canada and that almost half the US roster was in college two years ago points to just how much and how fast the skill level is rising in the women's game and I expect it to continue for a bit before it plateaus.
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Pou would be centering the top line but I agree! (Also, serdachny is cut the minute Pou returns).
HC could not keep up to the Americans - at the end of the day, Canada needed to figure out how to beat the Americans. Troy Tyan out and if KC came in and did the EXACT same rhinf as TR and kept the dinosaurs, well what is the point of that? We already know they are older and slower and can’t keep up to the Americans so nothing she could have done with the old crop would change that!
KC brings in a younger and FASTER group, probably knowing this will be a learning experience for them but she is giving them confidence and ice time to play, and she knows that by 2030 they will be finally back to where Canada needs to be.

The only way to beat the US is to get faster and stronger and that only happens with a younger and faster team.

So far she has been rolling 4 lines but I really hope she starts to shorten the bench. Canada was so slow the past few years, no matter what happens it is more exciting to watch this younger crop of women. Next year there will be many other players added to the mix and I think that team will be even harder to make!
 
Timothy A said:
Putting my GM non-emotional hat on, Holvenstot, RG, NG, Johnson and Jones are all less heralded than the incoming players. I hate say it, but Potter and Murphy could also go, UW is great at developing D and with Mossey and Taylor coming in it's a zero risk. That makes 7 spots for the 7 incoming players. I'd definitely want to keep Hall and Gorbotanker, scoring is always at a premium. I'm torn on McNaughton. Of course I want to keep her, but Stewart is ready. What is going to really suck is if they let loose top enders, they will certainly end up at places that will hurt UW (who will also have roster challanges), but that is why I'd go the underclassmen route to reduce the roster size.
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Agree! Some of those players should really end up in the portal. RS is a great goalie and with Jovanovic coming in, one of either Ava or Rhyah needs to go.

Mossey will be on TC next year - she single-handedly beat team Ontario and got team Atlantic their first medal at the Canadian championships last year. she is that good!
Chyna will also be on team USA in the near future. Mossey (r) and Chyna (L) I could see pairing with each other.

RG and NG I don’t see moving up in the lineup, could easily see this being a pretty big portal year for Wisconsin. Also, with the coaching change and drama at Minnesota Mossey and a few other decommitted there to go to Wisconsin, which gave wisc more depth.
 
I looked up Hillary Knight's salary this year... $106,000.

Have no idea where that fits in the PWHL hierarchy, but that certainly isn't skip college money, especially when you could go to a great college.
 
Arreis said:
How does this change anything? Do the Packers declare a dividend paid back to share holders each year? How does it work that makes it better than a single person team owner?
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Clearly, there are people in this forum who are naive about how bidness works.
 
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