2021-22 PHF Thread

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From: The Premier Hockey Federation > News

PHF WEEKEND PULSE: JAN 15-16

January 17, 2022
by PAUL KROTZ

... The Toronto Six and Connecticut Whale emerged from the holiday break with weekend home sweeps over the Buffalo Beauts and Metropolitan Riveters extending their winning-streaks to six games apiece to stay locked in first and second place respectively in the overall Premier Hockey Federation standings.

Here’s a closer look at the results, top performers, and other notable highlights.

SATURDAY JANUARY 15

Game 24
Metropolitan Riveters 1
Connecticut Whale 5
Box Score | Highlights

Connecticut scored five-straight goals from five different contributors and got multi-point performances from Amanda Conway, Taylor Girard, Kennedy Marchment, Emily Fluke, and Rebecca Morse.

Game 25
Buffalo Beauts 1
Toronto Six 6
Box Score | Highlights

Leah Marino recorded her first multi-goal game in the PHF with additional multi-point efforts by Stephanie Sucharda, Amy Curlew, Shiann Darkangelo, and Mikyla Grant-Mentis to pace the Six in a game seen across Canada on TSN.


SUNDAY JANUARY 16

Game 26
Buffalo Beauts 3
Toronto Six 8
Box Score | Highlights

Mikyla Grant-Mentis set a PHF single game record with six points as Toronto erased a 3-2 first period deficit with six-straight goals to stay unbeaten on home ice in their first Canadian season.


Game 27
Metropolitan Riveters 2
Connecticut Whale 3
Box Score | Highlights

Janine Weber, Amanda Conway, and Janka Hlinka all scored for the Whale who take three of four games over the Riveters to close the season series and extend their home win-streak to a club record of five. ...

 

[Atlantian]

New investors coming in and the league is hinting at expansion to Montreal and an 8th team in the US
PHF Announces Major Investment, Hints At Montreal Expansion Team

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Premier Hockey Federation to increase salary cap, add two expansion teams - Sportsnet.ca

 

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From: The Premier Hockey Federation > News

PHF ANNOUNCES TOR/CTW GAMES POSTPONED; UPDATED COVID-19 PROTOCOLS

January 20, 2022
by Paul Krotz

January 20, 2022 (Brooklyn, N.Y.) – The Premier Hockey Federation has announced that the regular season games scheduled for Saturday January 22, 2022 and Sunday January 23, 2022 between the Toronto Six and the host Connecticut Whale have been postponed.

The postponements are due to COVID-19 protocols affecting the Toronto Six. The weekend series will be rescheduled for a future date to be determined.

Since early January, the PHF Medical Committee has been reviewing COVID-19 Health & Safety Protocols on a bi-weekly basis and will continue to do so for the remainder of the 2021-22 season. Recent changes include the addition of an ‘Increased Club Transmissibility’ section that reads as follows:

If there are 4 or more High-Risk Group members that test positive with COVID-19 within a 7 day period and have been exposed to other members of the High-Risk Group within the last 7 days, the entire Club will enter into a 5-day pause of all team activity. The Club head team physician in conjunction with League Director of Sports Medicine and/or the Chief Medical Officer will determine if a Club meets the criteria for a pause. The date of this pause will begin the day after the last date of contact with any of the COVID-19 positive individuals and team activity will be able to resume on day 6.​

All High-Risk Group members will need to obtain one negative PCR test collected 3 to 5 days after the date of the last exposure prior to re-entry into team activity on day 6 of the pause period.​

Full protocols are available online at Covid 19 Protocols - PREMIER HOCKEY FEDERATION.

 

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From: The PHF > News

BRAND GETTING BACK DOWN TO BUSINESS IN BOSTON

January 22, 2022
by PAUL KROTZ


McKenna Brand has never missed a game in four Premier Hockey Federation seasons, so you can imagine what the last seven weeks have been like for the Boston Pride star forward.

That’s the time her and the rest of the defending Isobel Cup champions have been waiting to get back into competition following a pair of COVID-19 postponements that produced an uncharacteristically long holiday break.

This weekend the wait is over when they host the Metropolitan Riveters at Warrior Ice Arena. ...


Read more at: Brand getting back down to business in Boston

 

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While we weren't looking ...

TEAM DEMPSEY WINS 2022 PHF ALL-STAR SHOWCASE

January 30, 2022
by PAUL KROTZ

Goaltender Elaine Chuli Named Most Valuable Player

The stars of the Premier Hockey Federation were shining on Saturday night in Buffalo for the 2022 PHF All-Star Showcase at Northtown Center.

Team Dempsey, coached by Sami Jo Small was declared All-Star champions after winning the final game of the mini tournament by a 5-1 score over Team Thunstrom, coached by Mel Davidson. Both teams finished with a 1-1 record, as did Team Darkangelo, coached by Meghan Chayka, however it was Dempsey’s unit that prevailed by virtue of the goal differential tie-break.

Goaltender Elaine Chuli of the Toronto Six was awarded All-Star MVP honors for her efforts between-the-pipes in the final game that solidified the victory. ...

Connecticut Whale forward Kennedy Marchment and defender Tori Howran both had a pair of goals including one each in the 5-on-5 portion of the competition and the final shootout. McKenna Brand of the Boston Pride also added a shootout marker in the decisive game. Chuli’s only goal against in the third game was on the final shootout attempt by Pride defender Amanda Boulier. ...

This marked the sixth All-Star event in PHF history and the first since 2020 in Boston. Buffalo also hosted the inaugural event in 2016. This was the first time the event featured three teams and introduced mini games consisting of 10 minutes of 5-on-5, five minutes of 3-on-3, and a five-player shootout. ...

2022 PHF ALL-STAR SHOWCASE SCORES:
Game 1: Team Thunstrom 3 vs Team Darkangelo 2 – Box Score
Game 2: Team Darkangelo 3 vs Team Dempsey 2 – Box Score
Game 3: Team Dempsey 5 vs Team Thunstrom 1 – Box Score ...

Read more at: TEAM DEMPSEY WINS 2022 PHF ALL-STAR SHOWCASE

 

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Quick look at the PHF standings as they enter their 2nd-to-last month of 2021-22 regular season play. Comments are left to the readers ... within the limits of Board guidelines ...

 

[Atlantian]

Buffalo just cannot have a winning hockey team huh

 

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S/T to @Lady Stanley ...

 

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League's official acknowledgement of Tyler Tumminia's imminent departure ... 2021-22 PHF SEASON THE LAST FOR COMMISSIONER TYLER TUMMINIA

 

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I missed this announcement as I was lamenting Punxsutawney Phil's early February prediction ...

PHF TO AWARD ISOBEL CUP IN FLORIDA ON ESPN2

February 9, 2022
by PAUL KROTZ

Five playoff games March 25-28 at Tampa Bay’s AdventHealth Center Ice

ESPN2 to broadcast Championship Final on March 28 at 9PM ET

February 9, 2022 (Brooklyn, N.Y.) – The Premier Hockey Federation today announced that the 2022 Isobel Cup Playoffs are headed south to Florida where all six teams will battle for the top prize in professional women’s hockey March 25-28 at AdventHealth Center Ice near Tampa Bay. The schedule consists of five games including two preliminary round matchups on Friday, March 25 followed by two semifinals on Sunday, March 27 all streaming live across the United States on ESPN+ and internationally on ESPN affiliates including TSN Direct in Canada. The Isobel Cup will be awarded on Monday, March 28 live at 9:00 p.m. ET on ESPN2 and TSN2. ...

Read more at: PHF TO AWARD ISOBEL CUP IN FLORIDA ON ESPN2

 

[CrazyEddie20]

The owners should have put Tumminia out on her posterior immediately after the Lake Placid Bubble debacle. That she survived this long is just further proof that the owners have no idea what they're doing. Now they're going to Florida, where they have (checks notes) no teams and no fan base for a playoff tournament?

Great leadership, Ty. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Hope those payroll checks clear the bank...

 

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The owners should have put Tumminia out on her posterior immediately after the Lake Placid Bubble debacle. That she survived this long is just further proof that the owners have no idea what they're doing. Now they're going to Florida, where they have (checks notes) no teams and no fan base for a playoff tournament? ...

Playing their post-season tourney @ AdventHealth Center Ice (a fancy community rink complex that probably came cheap), it's clear that catering to a local fan base is not the Federation's primary motivation. Maybe that's where their remote broadcast team abandoned the equipment when the Lake Placid Bubble burst, and the budget wasn't available to move it. No matter the location or the reasoning, they are counting on their ESPN & TSN coverage to keep the PHF in the weekly North American hockey highlights. So at least the players and staff get a little beach time for their troubles.

 

[CrazyEddie20]

Playing their post-season tourney @ AdventHealth Center Ice (a fancy community rink complex that probably came cheap), it's clear that catering to a local fan base is not the Federation's primary motivation. Maybe that's where their remote broadcast team abandoned the equipment when the Lake Placid Bubble burst, and the budget wasn't available to move it. No matter the location or the reasoning, they are counting on their ESPN & TSN coverage to keep the PHF in the weekly North American hockey highlights. So at least the players and staff get a little beach time for their troubles.

Catering to a local fanbase has never been a motivation, it would seem. The teams are barely marketed at all, so I'd imagine the majority of the league's revenue is coming from sponsorships, which I'm sure draw big sums of money with the games being streamed on whatever outlet is the cheapest. But let's be honest, if you look at most of the women's hockey diehards and media members on twitter, most of them haven't left their parents' basement in years, so it's not like they've got any disposable income to buy tickets or spend on products that sponsor the league anyway.

 

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Catering to a local fanbase has never been a motivation, it would seem. The teams are barely marketed at all, so I'd imagine the majority of the league's revenue is coming from sponsorships, which I'm sure draw big sums of money with the games being streamed on whatever outlet is the cheapest. But let's be honest, if you look at most of the women's hockey diehards and media members on twitter, most of them haven't left their parents' basement in years, so it's not like they've got any disposable income to buy tickets or spend on products that sponsor the league anyway.

So you finally talked yourself into being a supporter of this League (sorry, Federation). Good on you, Eddie.

 

[CrazyEddie20]

So you finally talked yourself into being a supporter of this League (sorry, Federation). Good on you, Eddie.

I support the players. I don't support incompetent management.

 

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I support the players. I don't support incompetent management.

Then let the players hit the beach!

 

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From: SBNation > The Ice Garden

Toronto Six sold to new ownership group that includes Angela James

The Six have been sold to a group that includes James, Anthony Stewart, Bernice Carnegie, and Ted Nolan.

By Mike Murphy
on March 7, 2022 8:55 am

The PHF officially announced the sale of the Toronto Six from BTM Partners to a new ownership group. The group is led by retired National Hockey League forward Anthony Stewart leads the group along with Hockey Hall of Famer (and current Six assistant coach) Angela James, Carnegie Initiative co-chair Bernice Carnegie, and former NHL Coach of the Year Ted Nolan. The full group will be announced when the sale is closed. ...


Read more at: Toronto Six sold to new ownership group that includes Angela James

 

[bleedblue94]

So if it is true that the pwhpa is moving into a fully funded league with possible ties to the NHL how can the phf survive and put up a fight?

 

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[Roadhog]

So if it is true that the pwhpa is moving into a fully funded league with possible ties to the NHL how can the phf survive and put up a fight?

And then there was this yesterday:

NHL asks PWHPA and PHF to meet in pursuit of forming a unified women’s league

www.sportsnet.ca

 

[bleedblue94]

And then there was this yesterday:

NHL asks PWHPA and PHF to meet in pursuit of forming a unified women’s league

www.sportsnet.ca

yeah, I saw this yesterday. seems like the NHL doesn't want to take sides or get dragged into a conflict so they are just going to say figure it out and combine if you want to make this whole thing happen. It helps nothing to have two competing leagues...

 

[Roadhog]

yeah, I saw this yesterday. seems like the NHL doesn't want to take sides or get dragged into a conflict so they are just going to say figure it out and combine if you want to make this whole thing happen. It helps nothing to have two competing leagues...

I think that's been their stance for a few years now. Hopefully this meeting will involve the NHL in a mediator-type position to lay out the groundwork for a league operated under their umbrella.