Recorded the night after the Minnesota Wild advance to the second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs Pluto & Lady are alongside Nordy & Me in our celebrationsBut we weren't the only ones watching as several players of our Minnesota Frost were also in attendance ahead of beginning our title defence in Laval

With expansion looming its highly likely that the current format of the Walter Cup will need to be changed and there's two potential scenarios that the league can takeFor the Purple Trio there is one route that we favour that doesn't stop us from giving both scenarios a fair hearing

The final month of the 2025/26 regular season saw the same old script roll out for the Minnesota Frost as they seriously struggled in the month of April

But at least this time we didn't have to wait until the last day of the regular season or rely on the Ottawa Charge to book our ticket to the Walter Cup Playoffs and defend our crown

On this episode we recap the final month of fixtures and take a look at the final league standings which saw the Victoire make history with back to back league titles and the Goldeneyes securing the Gold Plan

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As the Toronto Sceptres hosted their Pride Night against the New York Sirens a very special guest was at Ccca-Cola Coliseum to make the ceremonial puck drop Heated Rivalry's Jacob TierneyHe even joined the broadcast booth to talk abbout the highly anticipated second season which is expected to come next year

I imagine there'll be a few sore heads in Van City following the Vancouver Goldeneyes winning the Gold Plan and earnnig the right to select first in every round of this year's Entry DraftWith this year's class stacked with loads of talent it's no surprise that one of the Purple Trio has already put their money where their mouth is as Pluto clearly didn't learn from my mistake in Ottawa last year

At long last we finally get to do the episode I've been waiting since the introduction of the Gold Plan as my hopes that expansion would help create a race for the first overall pick came to fruitionWe take a look at the overall Gold Plan standings which should mean Vancouver selects first, Seattle selects second and New York selects third in every round of this year's Entry Draft

When the team announced Carla would be taking a step back I genuely thought that was her done for the season so I am beyond delighted for the Ottawa Charge to have her back behind the bench it what is a crucial time for the team

I missed this when it was initially announced as Saturday was a busy and exhausting night for me but I can not hide my excitement that the Ottawa Charge will hold all of their playoff games at Canadian Tire CentreAt the same time I personally believe that it is now a done deal and very soon there'll be another announcement confirming their move to CTC as their new primary venue

The IIHF World Championships are in November 2026 and this year we have a brand new format and so Lady joins me to break down how the new format works We also give you a sneak peak of our plans as for the first time since we've followed the tournament we can start giving you content to help get through that long hot summer

The World Championships in Division 1A was an extremely competitive tournament which saw France stun Budapest to win and earn promotion to the top tier in 2027Nobody could've seen this coming especially how France only two months prior had a lacklusture performance in Milano as they didn't get any wins and had a negative goal difference Huge congratulations to the french and we will see you next year in Quebec