Chaos in the Expansion

[olivermoss]

PHWL Detroit GM Manon Rhéaume is denying having tampered with the expansion draft. PWHL keeps calling it 'player redistribution process' and definitely not an expansion draft, but it's an expansion draft with a lot of extra steps, most of those steps didn't go as planned. Basically, people made deals outside of the process and sort of ignored the weird dance they were supposed to do.

If there was any doubt the PWHL was a real league and has arrived, we've had out first draft tampering scandal.

Torrent took a beating the defnitely-not-an-expansion-draft. Meanwhile, the Goldeneyes have not lost any players yet. Expansion tracker if you want to see how unevenly the teams are being effected.

There is a lot of mess right now, especially with the possible Hilary Knight sign and trade. Going to wait and see how that shakes out, especially since Vegas announced her as a signing as if she's staying? awkward.

Too much mess to cover, especially since some details are murky. But I will say, Fuck Detroit for signing Curl as a core player, making her central to the team's identity. Fuck, I was so happy for Detroit to get a team. They burned a LOT of goodwill and possible fandom there, but maybe Knight can be used to spackle their image

Comments

[james]

I feel like they could have put the players' names in a hopper and let each team take turns pulling one at a time.