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True, although the math suggests teams will lose three instead of four players each next time in the expansion draft. That said, free agency is going to be wild if there aren't a lot of contract extensions before then.
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Of course, the money has to be there, so that a three or four year contract isn't a terrible deal for the player.
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I'm looking forward to the PWHL becoming a 3-4 year contract league. A lot of the joy in sports is watching players grow into their potential over a number of seasons. Katy Knoll was a hidden gem in the draft. Exactly the sort of player it can be so gratifying to root for across multiple seasons.
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Of the U.S. PWHL cities, the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro is by far the most affordable, and it is a cultural hotspot. But that doesn't seem to be making a difference with free agent signings so far. About the only pattern for the Frost has been that Minnesotans want to play for them.
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If the standard active roster is 23 players, that leaves them room for six players in the draft, and anyone beyond that is a reserve, unless they displace someone already on the roster.
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That's 1/4 of last season's Frost roster now, if my math is correct. Plus two season one players for good measure. Salary cap clearly isn't a thing, but at some point Vancouver is going to run out of roster spots, no?
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...or the roster, apparently.
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That salary cap sure has been hard on them.
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And now they have Cava, so they could run out a full Frost line + defensive pairing. Please don't let them sign Rooney to cap it off.
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It's a good idea to publicize any and all of his corporate donors. Shame them for supporting this vile man. Rub their noses in it, publicly. Ask them, repeatedly, for their take on the tragedy in MN. And then ask them why they support Mike Lee.
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Clearly, they're polytheists.
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Four Frost players too (so far). Soon, they'll be able to reenact the 2025 Finals in practice.
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True, but starting with the best 12 doesn't hurt. We'll find out tomorrow whether the new teams will be big players in free agency.
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As it currently stands, the new teams are much deeper and more talented than the original six. I don't think the league intended them to be the odds-on favorites for the #1 and #2 seeds, but that's where we're at. The draft order puts a bandaid on the wound to the original six, but not much of one.
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THIS!
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Promoted as a productivity tool, and yet it ends up preying on lonely people. I don't see why it would need a role-playing mode or why it would need to flatter and affirm users if it was just trying to help them accomplish tasks.
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Correction: long time rent-a-cop fantasist.
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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He was appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Board, a large bipartisan/non-partisan group of public servants, educational leaders, and business leaders from across the state. No salary was associated with this.
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Professional Women's Hockey League.
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Even as a Minnesota fan, it felt weird for them to draft 3rd last year after winning the cup. This order feels fair. And putting the expansion teams at the end, after the way too generous expansion draft process, was a must. This is the league kinda admitting that they messed up.
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Long time rent-a-cop.
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He continues to not understand what tariffs are. They don't make it harder for other countries to "shop in the United States." They make it harder for Americans to buy products from other countries. Also, isn't his whole point that he's mad that they don't buy enough things from the US? So, so dumb.
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And it tends to lose these arguments.
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And yeah, there is a narrative developing around NY and player egos. Hard to know what's up from the outside, but Ian Kennedy certainly makes it seem like dysfunction junction in their locker room.
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I would add that regardless of who is on the team, Ken Klee is going to run four lines from the get-go. That Frost 4th line wasn't nearly so lethal at the beginning of the season, but they got there by the end. Montreal has shown us the pitfalls of the opposite paradigm.
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I hope this is true (team identity being pretty important), but the players have to want to return. True free agency is a necessary and good thing for all. And we have not seen it in the PWHL to the extent we're about to see it.
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It seemed insane at first, but it is a great way to manage goalies who run hot and cold. The goalies have to be cool with it though, or it would be a disaster.
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No team has enough players (good, bad, or otherwise) for third and fourth lines right now.
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Considering how good she can be when she's on, but how she can get into a bad rut too, she might work better in more of a 50/50 'play the hot hand' rotation like the Frost use.
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Frosty!
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Is this exclusive to players' 2024/25 teams, or is it open free agency?
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Is it wrong to refer to the Vancouver team as the Slush, until they get an official name?
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They are definitely Frost-West.
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The legacy six are all going to be in serious rebuilding mode.
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Once the expansion draft is done, look at the players each team has the rights to. Unless they screw up, the expansion teams will have much stronger (and slightly larger than average) rosters. This will not be resolved by the draft or free agency.
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Free agent stars (for example M. Cava) are weighing multiple offers, and there is expected to be a lot more movement this time around.
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Last year, teams re-signed most of their bubble players to new 1-year contracts. It wasn't so easy for them to re-sign stars who had been on 1-year contracts. The amount of talent in this year's free agency is much higher than last year, and there are more opportunities for players to choose from.
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You contend that this is made up for by each of the legacy six having 22 players retained from last year. But they only have 11 (on average). One fewer than the new teams.
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Each team losing 4 and each new team getting 12 is fine. But there needed to be more/different protections to ensure parity. As one person put it, 24 of the 48 best players in the league are divided between two teams, the other 24 are spread out across six teams.
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The expansion draft should have taken into account the realities of the upcoming free agency. Pretending that teams will automatically retain their free agents is about the only way the expansion draft doesn't look disastrous for all but two teams.
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Free agency is not a separate topic. It is part of the process by which teams are built. If teams are on roughly equal footing in the entry draft and free-agency, then the new teams are at a distinct advantage, considering the high quality of their rosters compared to the legacy six.
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New teams will have 12 carefully selected PWHL veterans who have produced well considering the contracts they were under. The legacy six will each have four protected players, plus whoever is left over (in many cases, players who were less productive than hoped). This will be on average, 11 players.
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Each team will need to use the draft, and free agency to build out the rest of the rest of their rosters. They will not be returning 22 players each from this past season's roster.
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Here is where the teams will be after the expansion draft as far as players they have the rights to in the coming season...
New York: 13 players
Seattle: 12 players
Vancouver: 12 players
Toronto: 12 players
Ottawa: 11 players
Minnesota: 11 players
Boston: 10 players
Montreal: 9 players
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Pretty much only the 6 players each team signed to 3-year contracts in the inaugural season, plus their draft picks from last season won't be on the free agent market. And that is the pool from which the expansion draft is being drawn.
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After year one, only players who came in on 1-year contracts were free agents, and most of them signed new 1-year contracts. They will be up again, plus all of the players and draft picks from year one who signed 2-year contracts. This is most of the league.