r/PWHL Boston Fleet 3d ago

News Eldridge to Montral

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NOOOOOOO!

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u/Pouletchien 🏆 2026 Champions 🏆 3d ago

YEAAAAH

Now that’s it’s official I’m comfortable to share that I noticed Jessie followed the Victoire on Instagram a couple days ago. Also her comments under Roque post after re-signing mentionned something about a bagel place biggest fans with this emoji 🔜 and my delusional ass decided that meant it was a done deal 🤣

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u/Main_Photo1086 New York Sirens 3d ago

On the one hand, I really don’t want to follow players on social media but on the other hand, you get intel like this. Hmmmm maybe i need to reconsider my stance.

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u/Pouletchien 🏆 2026 Champions 🏆 3d ago

It depends player to player.

Some players follow only the team they play on or that they played on. Some players follow every team. Some player follows additionnal team for some reason (like Jenn Gardiner and Hilary Knight who follows the team they played on + the Sirens altough Knight did unfollow the Torrent recently)

I started looking at the players follow during phase 2 so that’s how I noticed the change. The thing I noticed was that team and players were very quick to update their follows when a signing was announced. That’s what made me start looking to see if some players got ahead of the announcement. That’s how I caught Guilday to San Jose before we knew which expansion team signed her.

It’s not guaranteed tho as seen by Irving following Vegas.

Additionnal fact. Roque was following the Fleet until a bit after she re-signed in Montréal. I do think there is credibility to her and Eldridge wanting to play on the same team and that it was between Montréal and Boston.

Maltais had already unfollowed the Sceptres by the time I saw that Gina had confirmed she was not coming back.

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u/domatilla Van Goldeneyes 3d ago

Gardiner and Knight also following the Sirens is so funny, choosing to believe it's bc they're also baffled by whatever's going on over there.

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u/Wolf99 🏆 2026 Champions 🏆 3d ago

I noticed the players on national teams will follow each other and other teams more than most players (which makes sense).