Purple Reign

We have the first official PWHL baby as Toronto Sceptres captain Blayre Turnbull is expecting her first child at the end of the year and we couldn't be happier for herIt also puts our league into new territory as we navigate new waters as one of our players goes on maternity

We have been waiting three seasons to cover the inclusivity of the PWHL and with the truth of my sexuality now in the open the time has finally comeIt's fair to say the PWHL has done what no sports league has done and shown its pride for communities that don't get the spotlight they deserve especially mine as there are more active LGBT players in the PWHL than the NHL Oh word of warning Pl...

This time next week Flavor Flav's SHE Weekend will get underway in Las Vegas and while at the time I was all down for it my mind has changed as the big event is just around the cornerThe weekend reminds me of why we're having this weekend in the first place and I had put all of that drama behind me and now I fear its all going to come flooding back

Despite playing in the smallest venue in the PWHL you can't deny how brilliantly the Boston Fleet have done in terms of attendance but their arena situation compared to the Sirens & Charge have never really been a big issueHowever I applaud the decision for the team to move from Lowell to Boston as of next season as it will allow the Fleet to grow their fanbase even further than ever befor...

So a recent article in The Hockey News was discussing about how a lack of a SoCal team could harm PWHL San Jose as they wouldn't have a direct rival kinda like how we currently don't in MinnesotaAs the entire Purple Trio has supported Californian teams we know a thing or two about the market's scene and having read between the lines don't see a problem with it

I don't pay attention to the NHL Entry Draft but when I heard that PWHL San Jose's first ever draft pick Laila Edwards was on the floor in Buffalo for the first round oh boy did I get interestedIt seems to me of the four incoming expansion teams San Jose is the one making the most effort to make a splash in their market

While we were on our way to Hercules this past weekend the dates for the Women's Euro Tour were revealed and its a lot earlier than normalUsually this event takes place in December but instead the tour begins August and lasts until the day before the World Championships and we are hoping the Rivalry Series will follow suit

June was a painful month for us fans of current exisiting teams as the expansion teams got well underway into building their rosters with plenty of teams feeling the hitThe Purple Trio come together to share their thoughts on how the two week period went down as a whole which saw a massive lack of clarity in how many players each team could lose

Britta Curl-Salemme has been the most hated player in the PWHL ever since she was drafted by our Minnesota Frost in 2024 not just for her aggresive style of play but also her views on the LGBT communityFor a proud gay guy like me having her on my team the past two seasons has been very hard to deal with and now that I'm publicly out we can finally have a deep conversation about it

It's our third annual awards show but sadly because of the fucking heat I had to abandon the glad rags and I'm raving because this year I had purple ones I wanted to show youAnyways this year's award show took place in Detroit who switched things up by holding them before the Entry Draft unlike in prior years

The last place I would expect our beloved Professional Women's Hockey League to get name dropped was on the live stream of a YouTube channel that I'm subscribed toBut that is what happened as Mickey Jo Theatre a YouTube channel that I'm subscribed to which covers my big passion outside of hockey read a comment from the live chat of his Oliver Awards streamThe comment referenced the les...

Not long after Team USA claimed gold in Milano-Cortina the Montreal Victoire's very own Hayley Scarmurra went on the Kelly Clarkson ShowNow this should have been a good thing but it ended in disaster as for starters Kelly wasn't there, second it was only roughly five minutes and lastly not much focus on the sport she playsAt the end of the episode I do my own version of Kellyoke picking on...

Ever since the Vancouver Goldeneyes played their first game at Pacific Coliseum our Pluto has an idea about what it would be like to have all of the PWHL teams be able to have theirs on center iceI let him take the floor while also posing some devil's advocate scenarios in what is a very lighthearted edition of the Purple Reign podcast

The PWHL Starting Six is where each month the league will recognise three forwards, two defenders and one goaltenderIn this final Starting Six recap for the 2025/26 season the Purple Trio celebrate the Starting Six for the month of May 2026

With the 2026 Expansion Process now complete the Purple Trio come together to take stock of what each of the current existing teams loss The biggest winners were the Goldeneyes who not only were barely touched but even managed to get one of their players back whilst on the other hand the Charge are the biggest losers and we don't let them forget it as promised

Last week the fourth annual PWHL Entry Draft took place in one of its newest markets as we found out how ready Detroit is to enter the league as 72 players in total were draftedThe big takeaway was that our Pluto was the cat who got the cream as the Vancouver Goldeneyes did select KK first overall and I have a feeling Lady and me aren't going to hear the end of itThe three of us come together...

Now I love Hillary Knight but the drama involving her during Phase 2 of the Expansion Process I did not like as until the roster freeze was lifted it was pretty much classic he said she saidI even got a headache from it as I couldn't work out who was to blame, PWHL Detroit, PWHL Las Vegas or even Hillary herself

The Purple Trio bring you their final recap of the Expansion Process as Phase 4 saw the expansion teams complete their ten signings with some even having to go to selection to fill their rostersHowever just when you thought things were settled going into the draft some expansion teams chose to play pass the parcel and give some signings back in exchange for draft picks

We've known since going to see Waitress that Kim Weiss was going to get hired by PWHL Las Vegas but the organisation chose to wait until her current team concluded their season before making it officialI have to give respect to DiDia for this move as it shows that she wants to change the bad culture that Las Vegas has largely thanks to the Golden Knights and their hate

Following making their first head coach walk the plank it hasn't gone plain sailing for the Seattle Torrent as they along with this year's Walter Cup Finalists have been heavily targeted by the expansion teamsSo it's probably a relief for their organisation that one of their assistant coaches has been promoted to the top job and to Lady's delight it's a woman

The Toronto Sceptres have found their new head coach who we all believe could do great things for the organisation and could be the guy to take the Sceptres forward especially after the way expansion has unfoldedThere is one interesting thing about the hiring and that it is none other than the brother of the general manager for PWHL Detroit

The IIHF World Championships will take place in Denmark between the 6-16 November 2026 and the entire Purple Trio couldn't be more excited as we now have the full schedule locked in our diariesAnd of course with the shift in calendar it does mean that there will now be women's hockey on my birthday as this year USA will face off against Germany in Group A action

Since the Purple Trio returned from their first PWHL trip we've been hard at working improving the Purple Reign podcast as not only did we get a new brand and made all of our shows into their own podcast feeds we also launched a shop Yes that's right you can now buy Purple Reign merchandise, creating a shop is something I've seen other podcasters and YouTubers do including our friends...

It's draft day in the PWHL and its the biggest one yet as we are literally stacked full of talent as more than 235 players declared for the draft including 23 players who represented eight different countries at this year's Olympics in MilanoBut the main talking point is Caroline "KK" Harvey is likely going to be the first overall draft pick selected by Gold Plan holders the Vanc...

Lady & Me discuss the decision to make PWHL players salaries a public document making it easy to see how much a particular player is being paid in the leagueWe have very mixed feelings about this especially as I wouldn't want my finances made public as they should be data protection laws in place as well