Back in your ear is all that you missed from Part One of Crease Huddles Episode 10. In Part Two we cover the bottom four PWHL teams and all the Olympic fun conversations to have. Learn more from Natalia about why you should be a Team Italy Truther.

-Ottawa being overtime Queens
-Will the Hockey Gods save Toronto?
-What's going on with the expansion teams
-Who have the best odds of upsetting Canada/USA at the Olympics
-Natalia goes full Finland truther
-Can Italy match China from the 2022 Olympics?
-Is youth an advantage for Czechia and Sweden?

Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.

Crease Huddles is back and better than ever with it's first permanent co-host, Natalia! Listen in on Part One of Episode 10 to get all your latest hockey news and what we're seeing out of the top four PWHL teams

-An update on the SDHL as it nears the end of it's regular season
-Who are the surprising teams in where they are placing in the NCAA NPI rankings and who is potentially in trouble on missing out on the national tournament
-What did we think about the biggest trade in PWHL history
-Is Boston a shoe-in for the PWHL playoffs?
-Why Minnesota is seemingly an offensive powerhouse
-New York's youth movement
-Is Ann-Renee Desbiens going to be a back-to-back Goalie of the Year winner?

Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.

With the 2026 Winter Olympics right around the corner, Purple Posts is celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in Olympic women’s hockey history. On this episode, host LJ Bachenheimer is joined by Meredith Foster, editor and international hockey expert at The Ice Garden, to talk about Sweden’s remarkable run to a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Games. With a roster based around previous success and college connections, plus a young phenom in goal, Sweden pushed through challenges and the world’s best women’s hockey teams to earn their spot in the gold medal game. LJ and Meredith walk through the team’s identity, the career of “cheat code” forward Maria Rooth, the remarkable shootout win over Team USA, and more. Stay to the end for our 2026 Olympics predictions!

Purple Posts is a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in women’s hockey history, presented by The Ice Garden Podcast Network. If you like the show, please subscribe and leave us a five-star review. You can also follow The Ice Garden and become a paid subscriber today.

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