Purple Reign

On April 17th 2026 during the Montreal Victoire's Pride Night the PWHL hit another almighty milestone as they hit one million fans in attendance in a single seasonThis is an incredible moment as the 2025/26 season has seen us go above and beyond in terms of our growth and what makes this even more special is that the Purple Trio's footprints are on that statistic

The PWHL Expansion process is in a mess so I believe its time to look elsewhere in particular the WNBA who seems to have a rock solid system on how to handle the rapid rate of expansionTheir proposals could help in terms of markets like Chicago & Calgary who on paper look like the perfect fits but have a lot of hurdles before they can land teams in the PWHL

With the Walter Cup Playoffs now in full swing the first two set of awards have been handed out both of them going to our very own Kelly PannekShe has had an amazing season leading the league in terms of goals and points and should be the top contender for MVP if it wasn't for two pesky netminders

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