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  • On Wisconsin:

    Earlier this year, Harvey led the United States to a gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, where she was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player and Best Defender. Think about that for a moment: in a tournament featuring the world’s most seasoned professionals, a 23-year-old blueliner was the standard-bearer.

    Add to that her three NCAA national championships with the University of Wisconsin and her recent Patty Kazmaier Award — given to the top player in women’s college hockey — and you have a winner in every sense of the word. She knows how to perform when the lights are brightest, a trait that will be invaluable as Vancouver looks to build a championship culture from the ground up.

  • She may have. It's rather embarrassing she was able to get minutes to build her fitness on decision day for Seattle. I like the Victoire to win the Walter Cup this year.

  • The WSL is by no means the most competitive league in the world, and it is incredibly gauche to call for adding the outdated goal line technology to review a goal called back in a 4-1 victory, given the new connected ball technology coming next season:

    “The league is the most competitive league in the world and we need to be at a really good level in terms of these decisions. We won the game by a three-goal difference so it didn’t create a lot of conversations, but if we had been in a situation where the goal-difference at the end of the season would have been important, then this goal is something I would have been really upset about. So that’s mainly the reason, we need the technology for things to be fair for everyone.”

  • Football @sopuli.xyz

    WSL roundup: Sonia Bompastor calls for technology after Sam Kerr’s hat-trick denied

    www.theguardian.com /football/2026/apr/26/wsl-roundup-sonia-bompastor-technology-sam-kerr
  • 🎶🎶🎶

    Rubber Duckey, you're the one

    who makes hockey oh so fun

    Rubber Duckey, you're my very best friend, it's true

    🎶🎶🎶

    "I think it definitely just shows how much this fan base and started kind of a bunch of new traditions here," said Canadian Olympian Sophie Jaques after watching the duckies rain down onto the ice following her overtime winner in Vancouver's season finale.

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    Rubber Duckies: A New Vancouver Goldeneyes' Fan Trend Takes Flight

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/rubber-duckies-a-new-vancouver-goldeneyes-fan-trend-takes-flight
  • Respect to the Victoire for choosing to unambiguously throw the gauntlet:

    Minnesota enter as the back-to-back Walter Cup champions and were the third place team in the regular season. Montreal chose Minnesota rather than selecting fourth place Ottawa who needed a point on the final night of the 2025-26 regular season to qualify for the postseason at all.

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    Montreal Chooses Back-To-Back Walter Cup Champion Minnesota Frost As First Round Opponent, Boston Will Face Ottawa

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/montreal-chooses-back-to-back-walter-cup-champion-minnesota-frost-as-first-round-opponent-boston-will-face-ottawa
  • Yep. I've seen it in real life. Whether this particular image is AI or not, that was a real tent at Seattle Central.

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    Vancouver Goldeneyes Will Pick First Overall In 2026 PWHL Draft With Chance To Select Caroline Harvey

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/vancouver-goldeneyes-will-pick-first-overall-in-2026-pwhl-draft-with-chance-to-select-caroline-harvey
  • I served a mission for the Mormon church in Russia. One of my companions (the other teenager who is assigned to you as a stranger and must stay within earshot of you at all times for the next few weeks or months) was really enamored with the idea of tracting, or going door to door asking people if they want to talk about Joesph Smith. He had watched too many Mormon missionary movies and was very disappointed to discover the Russian Federation has made tracting illegal. But he really wanted to do it, so we rang a random apartment and claimed to be a postman and snuck into an apartment building to knock doors.

    Things started off okay. Russians generally have two doors, a normal wooden door on the inside, and a thick, metal fire door with five deadbolts (three in the wall, and one in the door and ceiling). Mostly, folks would open the inner door, ask what we wanted and then tell us to go away (fair, considering what we were doing was as rude as it was illegal).

    But then we got a nibble! A single man invited into his home. The first thing that seemed kinda strange was that he locked and bolted the fire door. This was a little strange — usually people would leave the fire door ajar when they had guests and only lock the inner door — but not enough to really spook me. He led us into the kitchen and made a quick pot of tea and we launched into the first discussion.

    The discussions are pretty well rehearsed. The first one, if I recall, has eight parts, and we would give them in sequence — I would do the first part, then say the handover phrase and look significantly at my companion, and he would do the second, then hand it back until either the investigator got bored or we got to the call to action, where we issued some thing we wanted them to do — come to church, pray, read the Book of Mormon, what have you. My companion was starting this round, and was pretty invested in preaching so I don’t think he really noticed as our investigator lit a cigarette, put out the match in a tumbler, filled the tumbler with vodka, and shot the vodka and match together. He made the handoff, though, so at least I could start to figure out a way out of the situation.

    Pretty quickly into my segment, the investigator derailed the conversation. Turns out his wife had just given birth to twins, and the prognosis was poor — he was worried they wouldn’t make it. He grasped a kitchen knife and he told me that if god was going to take his newborns from him, he intended to take us from god. I don’t think I ever in my life spoken better Russian, beautiful, flowing, eloquent, explaining it wouldn’t help his suffering and offering prayers and blessings on his children’s behalf. He had this gleam in his eye that really unnerved me, and I really felt I was pleading for my life.

    Until my companion finished his tea, and the investigator seemed to forget the whole line of questioning in his haste to be a good host. I quickly made some excuse, but apparently my companion had completely tuned out because he launched into the next part of the discussion as if nothing had happened! I cut him off pretty quick and told him we needed to go, now. When we finally got out of the apartment, I sat down on the top step and began to sob, and my companion looked down at me, amazed, and asked what happened — apparently he had no idea we were ever in any danger.

    In any event, I’ve never gone door-to-door soliciting ever again.

  • You’re good people.

  • I can’t find anything without a paywall on this one, but I wanted to say that this isn’t gonna make anything easier for the Torrent tonight.

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    Victoire activate captain Marie-Philip Poulin, forward Maureen Murphy off LTIR

    www.theixsports.com /the-ice-garden/pwhl/pwhl-montreal/victoire-activate-captain-marie-philip-poulin-forward-maureen-murphy-off-ltir/
  • Northern Super League (NSL) | Super Ligue du Nord (SLN) @lemmy.ca

    The Northern Super League gets ready to begin its second season

    www.theixsports.com /the-ix-soccer/northern-super-league-second-season/
  • Good for you! Take all the time you need — we can hold down the fort.

  • Brits’ll do anything to avoid using the metric system

  • Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    PWHL Playoffs Will Open April 30 In Boston, May 2 In Montreal

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/pwhl-playoffs-will-open-april-30-in-boston-may-2-in-montreal
  • If the season had ten more games, would we have made the playoffs?

    The Torrent have scored five goals in three of their last four games. That is almost a quarter of the 62 goals they scored all season up to this point. The team is producing and performing well at the right time for the draft

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    What The Torrent Are Playing For In Their Final Game Of The Season

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/what-the-torrent-are-playing-for-in-their-final-game-of-the-season
  • Sure, I guess you could apply license fees for hunting permits on billionaires to conservation efforts if you insist.

  • I'm too soccer-brained, I took a beat before I realized you didn't mean the Vancouver Whitecaps. I'm not ready to give up hope for DC just yet

  • I think a big part of my comfort with describing it as a vast majority is because I have an expansive definition. From what I'm given to understand, most people think of a kinsey 1 as het and a kinsey 5 as gay, but those are both clearly bi for me

  • How much time have you spent considering your sexuality, and when did you last consider it? I suspect a lot of people chose a sexuality a long time ago under significant social pressure and don't have a great memory of it because there was kind of a lot going on at the time.

  • I mean, the guise we use for hunting is that it's for population control to properly conserve the environment. I suppose if you wanted to say there were some populations that needed controlling on environmental grounds, like billionaires or something, I might be amenable.

  • Football @sopuli.xyz

    Iranian activist Maryam Shojaei on women’s stadium ban protests and arrest by morality police

    www.nytimes.com /athletic/7198707/2026/04/21/maryam-shojaei-iran-world-cup-morality-police/
  • The Onion @midwest.social

    You Don’t Really Think Every Member of Trump’s Cabinet Gets Off on Being Unaccountable, Do You?

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/you-dont-really-think-every-member-of-trumps-cabinet-gets-off-on-being-unaccountable-do-you
  • The Onion @midwest.social

    Little League Week One Power Rankings

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/little-league-week-one-power-rankings
  • The Onion @midwest.social

    Instead of Losing Democratic Elections, What If We Just Stopped Having Them Altogether?

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/instead-of-losing-democratic-elections-what-if-we-just-stopped-having-them-altogether
  • Canada Soccer @lemmy.ca

    Fellow Canadians! Love NHL? Curious about soccer and the World Cup? This is your cheat sheet

    www.nytimes.com /athletic/7218776/2026/04/24/canada-nhl-soccer-world-cup-cheat-sheet/
  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    First Place, Final Playoff Spot, And First Overall Pick To Be Decided On Final Day Of The PWHL Season

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/first-place-final-playoff-spot-and-first-overall-pick-to-be-decided-on-final-day-of-the-pwhl-season
  • Football @sopuli.xyz

    UK Football Policing Unit chief says X is ‘hiding behind’ legal processes and delays

    www.theguardian.com /football/2026/apr/22/uk-football-policing-unit-chief-x-abuse-online-harms
  • The Onion @midwest.social

    Our Military Is SICK AF, Bro

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/our-military-is-sick-af-bro
  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com

    PWHL Expansion: Did Non-PWHL Takeover Tour Markets Swoop In And Steal The Show?

    thehockeynews.com /womens/pwhl/pwhl-expansion-did-non-pwhl-takeover-tour-markets-swoop-in-and-steal-the-show
  • The Onion @midwest.social

    Why It’s Actually a Reassuring Sign that You’re About to Be Eaten by Wolves, Ethan

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/why-its-actually-a-reassuring-sign-that-youre-about-to-be-eaten-by-wolves-ethan