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Harrison Browne, former professional hockey player, and Rachel Browne, Harrison's sister and investigative journalist sit down with The Ice Garden's Meredith Foster to talk about their book. Let Us Play: Winning The Battle For Gender Diverse Athletes, publishing on May 27, takes the reader beyond crass sensationalism and into the realities of history, science, and oppression for a thought-provoking and informative look at what equity should look like for athletes of all genders.

Harrison came out as transgender back in 2016 at the start of the second NWHL season. At the time he was a forward for the Buffalo Beauts; he went on to win two Isobel Cup championships, one with the Beauts in 2017 the same season he came out, and a second with the Metropolitan Riveters a year later in 2018. He retired from pro hockey following his second Isobel Cup win and currently works as an actor and filmmaker.

Welcome to the 2025 PWHL Finals! For the first time in league history we have a Canadian team in the final two teams remaining in the PWHL Playoffs. Alyssa and Maya discuss Game’s 1 and 2 of the series before they’re joined by Elisha Côté who shares her first-person experience of the highs and lows of the opening two games in Ottawa.

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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.

The 2025 PWHL Playoffs are underway and man oh man has it been a doozy. Alyssa and Maya discuss Games 1-3 in the Sceptres/Frost series before they dive into Games 1 and 2 between Montreal and Ottawa, including the infamous quadruple OT game.

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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.

After a few weeks away P-Dub in Twenty makes its return as the 2025 PWHL Playoffs are set to begin. As the regular season has come and gone, there are only four teams remaining to battle for the Walter Cup. Alyssa and Maya discuss the craziness of the final few days of the regular season before jumping into this year’s PWHL Playoff bracket.

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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.

Purple Posts, a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in the history of women’s hockey, is back! This time, LJ is joined by Eleni Demestihas, Director of Hockey Operations for Cook Stark Hockey, to talk about some infamous USA-Canada brawls, how increased physicality is changing the women’s game, and which players are most likely to throw down. 

You can watch the full clip of the December 2013 fight here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cks76

You can find Eleni’s original article for TIG about the fight here: https://www.theicegarden.com/law-and-boarder-breaking-down-a-legendary-usa-canada-brawl-womens-hockey/ 

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Intro and outro music: Modestly Rude by Jhovanny Fontanez © copyright 2009. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Nobuo3000/19015

Special guests Eleni, the director of hockey operations at Cook Stark Hockey, and Elisha, Ice Garden writer/future PWHL insider, join host Geremy to discuss the Vancouver expansion into the PWHL. They discuss the implications, who should be thrilled by this news, and a surprise name they'd like to see as a GM candidate.

Geremy gathers a few of The Ice Garden's writers to preview the 2025 IIHF Women's World Championships, taking place in Czechia. The group looks at the 10 teams who will face in the annual tournament.

In a special one-off podcast, host Geremy is joined by The Ice Garden NCAA expert writers Giselle, Emma, and Angelica to discuss the recent NCAA National Tournament round by round Giselle, Emma, and Angelica go over the regional semifinals, regional finals, Frozen Four semifinal and of course the big game, the NCAA National Championship game. Hear their thoughts on what players stood out, their opinion on the match-ups, how those match-ups played out, and more!

Mike from The Ice Garden and Eleni, a player agent and partner of Cook Stark Hockey, discuss the far-from-transparent nature of restricted free agency in women's hockey. They dive into how restricted free agency and other contracts might work if there is an expansion draft, and discuss what money is guaranteed when a player signs a standard player agreement (SPA). In other words, what happens when a player who signed a SPA becomes a reserve player?

Checking the Box is co-hosted by player agent and partner of Cook Stark Hockey, Eleni Demestihas and The Ice Garden Managing Editor and owner, Mike Murphy. Checking the Box will be a monthly (roughly) PWHL and pro women's hockey-centric pod offering unique perspectives from behind the glow of a laptop screen and the agent's desk. 

In the latest episode of P-Dub in Twenty with Alyssa and Maya, your hosts are fresh off of being in the building for a handful of PWHL games. Alyssa shares her experiences in Detroit and Toronto while Maya talks about being in the crowd for the Edmonton stop of the Takeover Tour. The conversation then shifts to discuss what the current scene looks like across the PWHL standings following the trade deadline and the handful of injuries Canadian goalies have suffered. 

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Dive into the heart of all the weekly PWHL action with “P-Dub in Twenty,” your go-to podcast for keeping up with the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Join Alyssa and Maya every week as they dissect each game, talk about the big time storylines, and share their insights on the players that stood out to them.