Have you ever wondered what it takes to manage medical care for a pro women’s hockey league? Today's guest can tell you all about it.

On the first episode of Purple Posts People, host LJ speaks with Dr. Tina Atkinson, the PWHL’s Chief Medical Officer. Throughout their conversation, Dr. Atkinson details her extensive career in sports medicine, the work she and her team do to care for athletes’ physical and mental health, and the challenges and complexities of managing medical systems for a league that spans eight cities across two countries.

Purple Posts People is an interview-focused spinoff of Purple Posts, The Ice Garden’s offbeat women’s hockey history podcast. On each episode, get to know a different person working in women’s hockey in a unique or interesting role, brought to you by the same team behind the rest of The Ice Garden Podcast Network’s great offerings. 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: Found Smoke by Pitx © copyright 2014. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/48064

Crease Huddles is back on your podcast feed with your host from Giants in the Crease, Geremy! Making a return appearance is Sarah Nurse superfan and just a hockey fan in general Rebecca (or Becca or Bex)! Come join us on this journey as we talk all the latest hockey news while dealing with everything that comes with recording in the evenings. We think we did alright!

On this episode:

• When does the feeling of panic really start to settle in if you're watching your team playing not so great?
• When do we see Seattle/Vancouver turn into the monsters the majority of fans/media were expecting them to be?
• Overall been a weird start to the season, what's going on?
• PWHL expansion talks are heating up in the zeitgeist, does the Takeover Tour offer any clues of where they are going?
• What PWHL teams are going to come back with an advantage post-Olympic break, players riding the high of winning a Medal or players motivated to end their season on a good note after a disappointing Olympics?

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.

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.

On this episode of Purple Posts, host LJ is joined by Maya Smith, The Ice Garden’s Vancouver beat writer and a native Calgarian, to talk about the extensive and often-chaotic women’s hockey history of Maya’s hometown. From the old-timey Alpine Cup scene to the many leagues of the early 2000’s, and teams with names like the Calgary Grills, Oval X-Treme, and the inexplicably nicknamed Team Alberta “Honeybadgers,” Calgary has plenty of stories to dive into. Along the way, LJ and Maya do plenty of real-time research while reflecting on Maya’s youth hockey career and LJ’s lack of Canadian knowledge.

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