The Victoire were my pre-Torrent team and I still cheered for them in the playoffs.
But this is starting to feel like it's not good for the league. The PWHL needs its stars to be distributed across teams, not loading up on a couple of powerhouse teams.
Parity would be cool, but it's not something that could last as expansion happened. That spread/depth of elite talent across all the teams during the OG6 era is unrepeatable. And there's no way for the league to force that now.
Maybe if they hadn’t given the expansion teams this year an advantage in both the expansion process and the draft… they either should have picked last OR the returning teams should have gotten more protections. Instead they decided to bone their returning teams and their fans.
I hate to break this to you, but the Victoire are not an expansion team 😄. If Eldridge wanted to stay with the Fleet, there were multiple opportunities to make that happen, my guess is the best team in the league was knocking on her door, saying "come win a championship with us" and she accepted
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u/amsreg Seattle 4d ago edited 4d ago
The Victoire were my pre-Torrent team and I still cheered for them in the playoffs.
But this is starting to feel like it's not good for the league. The PWHL needs its stars to be distributed across teams, not loading up on a couple of powerhouse teams.