WEBVTT - Has Anyone Heard From Marcus?! with Marie-Philip Poulin & Laura Stacey 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.120 Welcome to good game with Sarah Spain. Where we had 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.360 to leave Canada, not by exile or extradition or official 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:09.479 decree or anything. It was just time to go home. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:11.920 But we'll be back. I still got to get to 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:13.680 a Scepter's game and I want to go to the 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.080 top of Toronto c And Tower. It's Friday, June twentieth, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.120 and on today's show, we'll be talking to hockey power 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.799 couple and teammates on the Canadian national team and the 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.160 Montreal Victoire, Marie Filipoulen and Laura Stacy about the adorable 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:30.000 moment their romance sparked their decision to share their relationship publicly, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.440 YPWHL expansion sides Vancouver and Seattle will be threats next season, 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.279 and why Laura wanted league gms to consider her as 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.640 her own player and not Whoo's plus one plus. The 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.440 WNBA Commissioner's Cup Championship is set, a quartet of newbies 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.920 get their first national team call up, and a reminder 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.040 that everything we see on the internet isn't automatically true. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:01:03.520 It's all coming up right after this. Welcome Max Slaiceys, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.280 Happy Friday. Here's what you need to know today in 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.800 WNBA Hoops. The Commissioner's Cup Final is set after Minnesota 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.360 went five to one in Cup play and Indiana went 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.480 four in one, so it'll be the Links versus the 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.480 Fever July first, at eight pm Eastern on Prime. The 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.880 team that wins the n season tournament will be awarded 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.759 a prize pool of five hundred thousand dollars, and each 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.840 player in the championship game earns a chunk of one 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.640 hundred twenty thousand dollars pool of cryptocurrency from sponsor Coinbase 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.440 more hoops. Former Fever draft pick Brie Hall, who was 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.000 waived by Indiana before the start of the season, was 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.680 picked up by the Golden State Valkyries on Wednesday, just 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.319 ahead of the team's game against Indiana on Thursday. The 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.640 former South Carolina standout had been set to play for 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.000 the three XBA A three x three league before redirecting 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.960 to the Bay to join the Valks. Even more hoops, 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.960 I want to shout out a fun moment Tuesday night 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.240 after the Dallas Wings first home win of the season 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.200 and eighty seventy one victory over the Valkyries. In her 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.920 postgame presser, rookie Page Beckers unveiled a custom Gatorade flavor 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.000 made just for her. Beckers, who was the first NCAA 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.440 player to sign an NIL deal with the brand, has 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.400 often talked about her love of Shirley Temples, so the 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.960 brand cooked up what they're calling Page's favorite flavor. They 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.080 even slapped her face and signature on the label. Shirley 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.800 Temple is like my favorite drink of all time, Beckers 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.320 told the media Tuesday as she admired the bottle. No 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.440 word yet on whether the rest of us will ever 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.200 get to try it. Finally, an on court action, We've 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.880 got three games in the w Tonight two contest tip 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.600 off at seven thirty pm Eastern, the Washington Mystics at 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.440 the Atlanta Dream and the Dallas Wings at the Connecticut Sun. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.160 Then at ten pm Eastern, it's the Seattle Storm at 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.919 the Las Vegas Aces. All three games can be found 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.359 on Ion and League Pass to the Soccer Pitch. US 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.760 women's national team head coach Emma Hayes is named the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.720 twenty five player training camp roster for their upcoming matches 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.520 against Ireland and Canada, remaining true to what she told 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.160 friend of the sho Jeff Casoof on ESPN earlier this week. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.760 Naomi Germa is the only European based player on the roster. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.200 The other twenty four play their club soccer in the NWSL. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.720 Included in the call ups are friends of the Show 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:10.839 Angelina Anderson, Emily SAMs, Corey bethoon Yasmine Ryan and Izzy Rodriguez. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.160 Special shout out to Izzy for earning her first call up. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.639 She joined Seattle Rain center back Jordan bug Gotham FC 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.040 fullback Lily Reel and Seattle Rain midfielder Sam Mezza as 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.600 first time call ups. All four players have been part 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.640 of US youth national teams and played in Youth World Cups, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.680 World Cup, and Olympic champ Rose Level is also on 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.200 this training camp roster. She returns to the US women's 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:33.760 national team for the first time in about six and 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.839 a half months after recovering from ankle surgery. The US 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.600 will play Ireland on June twenty sixth outside Denver and 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.400 again three days later in Cincinnati, and they'll conclude the 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.520 international window against Canada July second in Washington, d c. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.080 To the NWSL. Two games tonight, both get underway at 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.760 eight pm Eastern. Angel City FC pays a visit to 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.080 the League leading Kansas City Current. That one will be 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.560 on Prime Video, and at the same time, the Orlando 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.000 Pride take a trip to Kentucky to play Racing Louisville. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.400 You can catch that game streaming on NWSL plus. One 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.840 last bit of NWSL news shout out to friend of 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.360 the show Ali Riley, who returned to training for Angel 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.080 City this week after missing months to a nerve issue 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.440 in her leg. The issue forced her to withdraw from 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.120 the Paris Olympics and prematurely ended her NWSL season last year, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.159 causing her to question her future in the sport. While 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.400 she's not back to full strength, We're so happy to 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.240 see her in uniform and out on the field with 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.839 her team, and you can tell she's overjoyed as well. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.960 We'll link to a video of her addressing the squad 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.480 at practice in our show notes. More soccer in USL 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.760 Super League news. The Tampa Bay Sun, this season's USL 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.799 Super League champions, have announced plans for a purpose built 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.080 women's soccer stadium, a fifteen thousand seat venue on the 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.679 Ebor Harbor waterfront. The USL Super League a professional women's 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.960 league that launched last year with plans to compete directly 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.640 against the NWSL completed its first season last Saturday, with 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.840 Tampa Bay lifting the inaugural trophy after defeating Fort Lauderdale 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.640 United FC one nil. In April, the league sold its 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.279 naming rights to Gainbridge, and starting with the twenty twenty 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.160 five twenty six campaign, will be known as the Gainbridge 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:06.360 Super League to hockey, roster moves abound in the PWHL 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.560 this week as expansion squad's PWHL Vancouver and PWHL Seattle 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.960 continue to build out their rosters. Here are some of 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.760 the highlights. Forward Hannah Miller signed a three year deal 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.080 to join PWHL Vancouver after playing for the Toronto Scepters 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.280 the past two seasons. Vancouver also added two time Walter 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:26.600 Cup champion forward Mikayla Cava, forward Terresa Venisheva, and defender 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.160 Emma Greco on two year agreements, as well as defender 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.799 Melissa Channel Watkins on a one year deal. PWHL Seattle 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.960 added defender Mariah Keppel and forward Natalie Snodgrass on one 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.599 year deals and signed forward Lexiagia for two years. Plenty 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.760 of moves elsewhere in the league as well, will link 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.400 to the PWHL's roster updates page in our show notes 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.920 too golf three major championships taking place the next six 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.159 weeks in the LPGA, beginning with the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.680 which teed off yesterday in Frisco, Texas. South Korea's Amy 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.000 Yang is the defending champion last year's breakout Superstar Nelly Corps, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.800 but still looking for her first win of the season. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.760 She's finished in the top ten and four of her 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.679 nine starts, and tied for second in last month's US Open. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.440 We got to take a quick break, yet when we 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:23.560 come back, it's Marie Philippe and Laura joining us now. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.839 She's the captain of the Canadian national hockey team and 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.560 the Montreal Victoire of the Professional Women's Hockey League. A 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.240 three time Olympic gold medalist and four time World champion, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.039 she's known as Captain Clutch after scoring the game winning 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.000 goal in the gold medal game in three out of 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.920 four Olympics in which she's competed. The first female hockey 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.000 player to win the Northern Star Award is Canada's top 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.039 Athlete of the Year. She was named a Knight of 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.720 the National Order of Quebec in twenty twenty four. She 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.719 was also just named the International Ice Hockey Federation Player 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.479 of the Year. She studied psychology at Boston University, and 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.320 she shares the cutest dog ever, Arlow, with her wife. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:55.560 It's Marie Philippe Polen. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:55.960 Hi. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.919 Marie Philippe, Hi, how are you? I'm good? Thanks? Speak 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.479 of her wife. She's also with us. She's also a 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.000 Canadian national team player and member of the Montreal victor 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.800 of the PWHL. A two time Olympic medalist and winner 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.480 of three Golds for silvers at a bronze with the 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.360 World Championships. She comes from a sporty family, including her 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.320 great grandfather, Francis King Clancy, who's in the Hockey Hall 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.720 of Fame at Dartmouth Grad. She's the other half of 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.800 the Arlow Fan Club and Hockey's greatest power couple. It's 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:21.600 Laura Stacey. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.800 Hi, Laura, Hey, thanks for having us. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.800 Thanks for joining us. Happy, Pride, Happy. She's gay. Marcus 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.560 Month the best month of the year as far as 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.960 we're concerned. I want to start with Arlow because you 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.120 both seem to be as obsessed with him as I 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.520 am with my three dogs, including putting his face on 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.920 the napkins at your wedding last September. The only thing 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.880 we had in mind for our wedding before we planned 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.880 anything else, was that our dog would be the ring bearer, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.320 and then our venue would not allow dogs no matter what, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.800 and we were so sad. So I totally get your obsession. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.760 And it really feels like, Laura, that Arlow has actually 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.880 genuinely changed your life. Is that right? 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.480 Yeah, He's definitely on a big part of it. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.840 I think both of us we weren't really sure when 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.080 we were going to get a dog how we were 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.840 going to be able to do it, just with traveling 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.480 and playing hockey year round. But at the end of 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.040 the day, we're like, let's just go for it, let's 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.160 give it a try. It was covid. We just went 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.040 out of limb We're like, let's let's buy a dog. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.200 And it was definitely one of the best decisions we've made. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.240 And you're right, we're pretty obsessed, that's for sure. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.320 He is extremely cute. And I don't know if it 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.520 was your doing, Laura, but I read or listened to 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.120 somewhere that Marie Philippe was like no dog with any 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.240 like fur that might shed I don't want a big one. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.280 I actually don't know if I want a dog at all. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.880 So safe to say you were completely wrong in every way, Marie, Fleep. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.200 Yes, exactly, You've done your research. I love it. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.200 Yeah, I didn't grow up with a dog, and honestly him, 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.280 I did like them, but I was not obsessed. And honestly, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.320 I would always probably judge people that they would be 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.160 sad when they're leaving the house or they're kissing them 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.080 or living making them sleep in their bed. I was 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.160 probably a first one to judge down. But I gotta say, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.679 now my whole world kind of turn around for this 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.079 little arlold boy, and I'm obsessed with him. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.400 So I'm pretty excited about him. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.120 Yeah, I feel like that's all I need to tell people, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.199 is like, you just don't understand. Just get a dog, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.080 and soon you'll be one of us and you'll be 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:14.680 a total. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.800 Free I agree. Until you have one, you don't. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.080 Know what they do for you and the love they 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.040 give you and even coming home after a loss or 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.040 a bad day, or honestly he has no idea and 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.960 does not care. He still loves us no matter what. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.640 So it's been a pretty great feeling through everything. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.880 It's truly therapy, and not in a hyperbolic sense. It 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.360 literally like one of my dogs sleeps directly on top 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.240 of me like a weighted blanket, and I'm like, yeah, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.160 this is this is therapy. Actually, Marie Philip, not only 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.439 did it cause you to like love dogs in a 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.600 way you didn't understand, but you actually said in an 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.559 interview a few months after your wedding that Arlow has 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.920 you convinced that kids are in the future and that 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.040 that's your next big project as a couple. So I 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.280 love that the dog was like the little tester for that. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.840 That's tough to navigate when you've got two professional athletes. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:00.800 So what are those conversations like for the two of 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.120 you as you're both still competing at the highest level, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.760 trying to figure out timing and things like that. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.280 Yeah, obviously, I think we're both still trying to figure out. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.640 I think we're both in the a little bit getting older, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.480 and we're all aware of what can be in the future. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.920 And for sure, for us, having your family having kids 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.679 is in our project and that's what we want, but 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.719 we still love to figure out we still want to 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:24.199 be part of that. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:24.840 Let Victoire. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.800 We still want to be at the Olympics in twenty 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.720 twenty six and we're working hard for that. But I 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.760 think after that it'll be awesome to make this happen. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.360 But we know it takes a lot of work and 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.000 we'll go one day at a time. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.120 Speaking of your Montreal Victoire finished the regular season at 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.200 the top of the standings in the PWHL, but exited 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.560 in the playoff. Second season in a row for that 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.600 sort of disappointing finish. What needs to change for the 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.280 team this upcoming season, Laura, Honestly, that's a great question. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.520 I don't know if we have the answer to that yet. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:56.960 I think obviously we've been taking a little bit of 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.920 time after the season to take. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.160 It in and of deal with that disappointment. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.320 You're right, two seasons in a row, when you think 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.680 you're close, when you think you're getting there and it 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.960 gets taken from you pretty early or you don't quite 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:09.679 have it. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.560 It is disappointing. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.480 We feel it, our fans obviously feel it, and so 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.080 I think just moving forward, it is finding those different 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:21.000 ways to win, and obviously we were able to do 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.760 pretty well throughout the season, but at. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:23.280 The end of the day. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.680 What matters is the playoffs and winning a championship, and 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.200 we weren't able to do that for our team and 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:27.760 for our city. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.720 So obviously it starts with us. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.800 We need to find a way to make a difference 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.400 in the playoffs and to have a bigger impact. And 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.840 then again, I think it's just little things and working together, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.800 becoming more close with our team. And obviously there's a 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.000 lot of big changes here coming up in the PWHL, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.360 so that's going to be a big thing, is how 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.720 can all these teams adapt to those changes quicker and 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.000 also just get to know their new teammates, get to 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.280 know the new feeling because the teams are changing so drastically. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.560 So I think to get to the championship, that's what 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.840 it is. It's being able to adapt, being able to change. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.800 Different things are happening in our environment and our league 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.439 it on a regular basis, and so I think it's 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.160 important for us as veteran players on the team to 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.360 find a way to help every single person adapt and 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.840 be a part of this new team that we're going 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:12.600 to see next year. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.200 Yeah, I want to talk about expansion, but first I 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.760 want to ask you, Marie, Philip you've won it every 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.880 single level. No secret that you're widely considered the best 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.440 player in the world. It's been two seasons only, so 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.760 very early in this PWHL. But how much pressure do 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.080 you feel when it comes to p WHL titles versus 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.920 the pressure you feel for Canadian national team events like 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.439 the Olympics or World Championships. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.319 Well, honestly, we like, I'm pretty fortunate to be part 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.440 of such amazing teams and having teammates in the environment 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.080 that allowed us to win. But honestly, being part of 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.680 the PWHL, being part of La Victoire, it is part 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.800 of right away. You jump into that team, you want 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.480 to win, and I don't think it's extra pressure. I 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.400 think it's part of me as an athlete to be 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.000 competitive and wanting to win day in and day out, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.640 and honestly, starting this league, every team wants to win. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.000 Every team wants to raise that Walter Cup that first time. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.000 See the Sea Minnesota doing twice in a row, just 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.280 like the Panthers. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.319 The Sneaky Frost exactly. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.160 I think for all of us, we want to win. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.520 I want to bring him back to Montreal and it's 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.040 gonna be saying yes, there's pressure, but I think thinking 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.000 of pressure in a positive way and just moving forward 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.040 towards that day in and they out. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.600 We haven't yet seen the logos, the names everything for 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.760 Seattle and Vancouver, so at least for now, Montreal hands down, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.480 best logo, hands down best jersey. I don't want to say, 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.400 you know, I can't say it for next season because 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.200 we still got to see what's happening with the new teams. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.360 But that's the jersey that I want. It's so sick. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.280 Let's talk about expansion. So the expansion draft wrapped up 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.200 last week. The two of you are staying put with 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.000 the Victoire, but the league saw a lot of big moves, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.920 including Hillary Night signing with Seattle after Boston left her unprotected, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.920 Montreal losing Kayleb Barnes, Jennifer Gardner, among others. What was 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.640 your reaction when you heard that teams could protect initially 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.960 just three players, Laura. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:11.400 Those are tough questions here, obviously, as as players of 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.480 the Victire, it's sad. It's sad to see our only 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.160 three people be protected. Obviously, we didn't know what was 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.720 going to happen, myself included. I didn't know if I 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.040 was going to be protected. So I think just just 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.080 obviously that first unknown and that first scary feeling of wow, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.280 only three that's quite a small amount, and especially in 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.080 this team that we've created that we thought was going 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.840 to do so well, and obviously even with the result 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.160 of this of the playoffs, I think we still had 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.920 an incredible team. We had great people, great culture, and 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.440 so I think our first reaction as WHOA, this is 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.600 a big change. A lot is going to be different here. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.760 This team that we have is not going to look 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.120 the same at all. So I think that was our 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.280 initial reaction. And then we've obviously tried to take with 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.520 some perspective here in the sense of like, it is. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:56.760 Amazing for women talking. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.560 It is amazing that two new teams are being able 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.040 to be at to this league in such short time 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.600 because of how well the PWHL and how well all 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.720 six teams have done. So I think that perspective gives 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.600 you like, Okay, this this is for something so much bigger. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.920 And we started this league with that same sense of 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.360 we want this to be a legacy, we want this 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.600 to be long lasting and forever, and so it is 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.760 important to look at it in all the disappointment in 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.800 the fact that we lost some of our friends and 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.160 our favorite players, Like it is important to zoom out 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.800 a little too and see how how awesome it is. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.920 But yeah, I think obviously three players is it is 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.560 not a lot, And to see how Vancouver and Seattle 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.840 are shaping up, it seems like they are quite the 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.080 great teams. But with that being said, I think all 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.040 six teams have built something pretty special in each market 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:47.960 for the last two years and I don't think that 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.760 disappears with just this new process. That's still those those cultures, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.520 those that what's started in all six of those cities 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.520 is still there, and I think all us six original 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.640 teams are are going to rely on those fan bases 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.360 and in order to kind of keep pushing forward here. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.560 So there's a lot to it. There's a lot of thoughts. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.760 Obviously it's pretty fresh to all of us, but I 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.680 think it is important that there is a lot of 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:12.800 positives to it as well. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.000 I actually had Hillary Knight on the show about a 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.360 week before protected players were announced, and I was joking 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.000 about like, oh, what if Boston didn't protect you? Ha 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.400 ha ha, And she said one of her biggest goals 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.520 before retiring was to bring a cup to Boston and 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.760 then boom, she's gone, which is crazy. I didn't actually 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.560 think that would happen. But it also speaks to the 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.600 kind of talent that these rosters are going to have 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.760 from day one, the talent that they got between the 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.440 signing window and the draft and the noun free agency. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.240 Just how big of a threat do you think they're 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.880 going to be in their first seasons? Murrayfully, because expansion 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.520 teams usually you can be like, it's gonna take a 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.120 little while, but they look pretty good. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.680 They look very good. I gotta tell you, they're going 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.480 to be a threat from day one. Honestly, they props 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.760 to the GM that the in drafting those amazing players, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.920 and yeah, honestly, like hearing Nighter not getting protected, Honestly, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.479 I was very surprised and shot for us. For me, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.000 it's the face of women's hockey and especially around the world, and. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:16.280 It's hard to see. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.640 Honestly, she's created that league since day one, so it'll 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.720 be interesting to see, but honestly very happy to see 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.240 her in Seattle creating something. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:24.960 Very special there. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.080 But to see these two teams lining up with these 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.200 with the free agency, with the draft, it's amazing. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.359 Good for them, but we. 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.240 Got our work, toy. You do worried, I would be 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.320 worried about an angry Hillary Night with something. She's been 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.960 bad enough already. Happy go lucky Hillary Night is scary enough. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.760 I do think Seattle is quite lucky to have her 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.480 to grow that program with a face like that and 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.200 a player like that. I mean, to start a brand 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.480 new program in a new city like Seattle, I think 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.000 having Nighter there couldn't be more beneficial to them, and honestly, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.040 probably to the league. I know Boston is really going 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.600 to miss her, but it's it's good for her. That's 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.760 like in that sense too, Laura. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.600 It's a dream that you two ended up on the 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.520 same team. But as this league was coming together, you 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.760 did not want to be considered a package deal. In fact, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.080 you've said you had conversations with all the gms in 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.840 the PWHL and said, I only want to be drafted 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.040 if you want me as a person and as a player, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.840 not as Marie Philipp's plus one or some package deal. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.680 So can you tell me about that time, because you 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:30.720 said it was quite hard on you. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.080 Yeah, I think obviously I want to be my own 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.880 person as well. My own player, and that's that's important 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.760 to the two of us, is we're not just doing 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.080 this to be a couple and to live in our 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.480 own house. We're doing it to chase our own passions 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.560 and our own dreams, obviously in support of one another 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.320 as well. And so from day one when this league started, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.239