Yesterday the PWHL released some information on the draft for next season:
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The PWHL has six teams, and four will make the playoffs. Details are:
- the 1st place team in the regular season picks its semifinal opponent out of the 3rd and 4th place finishers
- overtime will be five-on-five periods of sudden death in the playoffs and series will be best of five.
- the PWHL will use "Gold" drafting which means that as soon as a team is "mathematically" eliminated from making the playoffs, their regulation wins earn them points towards their final draft position. Whoever gets the most Draft Order Points gets to pick first overall in the June draft
- the other non-playoff team picks second.
- the playoff teams are set in draft order in the inverse of the regular season standings and this order of all six teams persists for all seven rounds of the draft
In NHL news, there's a goalie on waivers!
Placed on NHL waivers today: Cal Petersen (PHI).
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) February 28, 2024
This is a very "endpoints, choose your endpoints" sort of thing, but it's also a good way to contextualize why Jets fans might not be buying in:
NHL’s highest scoring forwards at 5v5 over 5 seasons combined (min 500 minutes): pic.twitter.com/1EJnPh6AxU
— Garret Hohl (@GarretHohl) February 28, 2024
Maybe someday Nik Ehlers will try hard and get played more, eh? Until then watch the biggest team in the NHL hit some guys. (I have no idea if they are, they used to be, and they used to seem to want everyone to know it.)
The Jets are last in attendance this year for teams playing in NHL rinks. And even allowing for the size of theirs, 17,000 or so, it's bad. This is an ongoing problem that winning isn't fixing.
Speaking of the Jets, the Coyotes are on tap tonight, and I'm so sorry to say you missed this:
🔥CLEARANCE SALE FINAL HOURS 🔥
— PHNX Coyotes (@PHNX_Coyotes) February 28, 2024
Our 30% OFF EVERYTHING sale ends TONIGHT 🚨😮
Don’t miss out! Shop the PHNX Locker NOW before it’s too late! ⬇️👀
🛒: https://t.co/usGvrmXnBN pic.twitter.com/NSgSHtcM1w
If you want to know what Craig Button thinks...
The #Yotes are a disaster on the ice right now, having lost 13 consecutive games, and are possibly an even bigger mess off of it.@CraigJButton puts them in 'The Smokehouse (presented by @MontanasBBQ) and roasts their continued failures in Arizona: https://t.co/3eoFSFPxcO pic.twitter.com/7c8TuMXrAf
— TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) February 29, 2024
The Wild negotiated the termination of their players contract after the KHL regular season:
Welcome to Minnesota, Marat! ✍️
— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) February 28, 2024
We've signed forward Marat Khusnutdinov to a two-year, entry-level contract!
More » https://t.co/JnAUi2zUnZ #mnwild pic.twitter.com/YLjb4RJsCQ
While criminal charges are a matter of public record, neither the Peterborough Police Service nor the Petes informed the public that one of the OHL team’s billets was charged with sexual exploitation.
— Rick Westhead (@rwesthead) February 29, 2024
Billets have been advised by the Petes that another billet may face criminal… https://t.co/7cVdHzlnat
Tomorrow marks one week until the trade deadline and last night marked the first complex trade:
Perfect breakdown from Owen on how exactly the retainment works. There's a new wrinkle - teams can't trade cap space for future considerations any longer, so unsigned pick Cole Brady had to go from NJD to CGY (then to Dallas) to make it all happen. https://t.co/FOoab0RnQj
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) February 29, 2024
Not sure why the Flames didn't take back an even older pending UFA and sign him for 8 years at double his worth.
