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The PWHPA has annouced their Dream Gap Tour, with details at this link here.  They are having weekend game showcases between teams. Announced locations are Toronto, Hudson, NH, and Chicago. They are also having an exhibition game against Boston College and one against San Jose Sharks Alumni. I think in one of the news articles, they mentioned more happening later, with Buffalo as a potential location. All the games currently on the schedule are played in the next two months.

The Toronto leg of the tour just released tickets and information here, playing the weekend of Sept 21-22. They are playing four games between four teams over the weekend and they have some big sponsors including Budweiser Canada, who are sponsoring the streaming, which will be on their website. One cool thing is that you can buy virtual tickets and that money will go to kids who might not be able to go to a game.

NWHL announced this morning that they are partnering with Twitch to stream all of their games for three years, including this season. It will include the Isobel Cup Final and any other special games like the All-Star Game. It doesn't look like pre-season games are included since they specified all regular season games will be streamed. While you get perks and things if you make a Twitch account, you don't need an account to watch games. 

This is slightly older (lol 2 weeks old) news, the Swedish national team is on strike until they are compensated fairly. The have had a lot of issues with their federation in the past few years and it all has come to a head. They have already missed the Euro Hockey Tour, and Sweden is hosting the 4 Nations Cup in November, so there is international embarrassment on the line for the federation if they can't have a team play. The players are unionized, which should greatly help their cause. 

I'm also going to re-post the link to the calendar I made again, for when games are being played. The PWHPA, NWHL, IIHF and SDHL are currently listed on there. It is pretty USA/Canada centric but if you think I should add any other leagues, let me know (with a focus on leagues that stream games, I may still add the AWIHL, Finland's league and Russia's league). I'm working on ways to have a single shareable calendar that you can hide the leagues you don't want to see schedules for, but that will probably be for next season or later this year (I did find a good candidate! still in progress.). I'm also only able to do some tasks on a computer, and currently the internet is out at my house so I'm doing my best to update it when I get computer access and as news comes up. 

NCAA Fantasy Hockey Week 22:

The Eagle has Selanded: Top seed Cornell and eighth seed RPI played not just the most memorable series of the weekend, but one of the most memorable series of the season. On Friday, after Cornell had put more than twenty shots on net without scoring, RPI went 1-0 up on its second shot of the game. Fifteen Cornell shots later, and two RPI shots later, Cornell finally leveled it at 1-1, and nearly sixteen minutes into overtime Cornell took it 2-1. Lovisa Selander (RPI, $59, 59 SP, 8.3 WP, 1 pick) made 63 saves and RPI took seven shots in total. Saturday was even more epic as RPI massively stepped up their offense, registering ten total shots on goal, and with a goal early in the first period and an empty-netter in the dying minutes took the game 2-0. Blake Orosz (RPI, $24.40, 24.4 SP, 4 WP, 0 picks) scored all three goals across the two games, which counts as a hat trick if you’re RPI. Sadly for fans of Cinderella stories, Cornell came to play in the decider and took it 6-1 to progress to the semi-finals. Selander’s save percentage across the series was an amazing .954. Over to Title IX Hockey for some more great stats:

 

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The 8 seed in the ECAC tournament prior to today had never won a game, and had taken the 1 seed to OT just 5 times for a total of 6 OTs.  RPI is 4 of those times and 5 of those OTs.

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Selander’s NCAA career is over, but college hockey fans will remember her for a long time. She had already broken Brianne McLaughlin’s official NCAA save record a few weeks back; in the game that RPI won, she beat Nicole Hensley’s 4,094, which isn’t the official record because in Hensley’s freshman year Lindenwood was still transitioning to D1. She ends with 4,153 saves, an average of over a thousand saves a season (for a comparison, the average saves made this season by goalies that play 80% or more of minutes is 822, so Selander was about 25% more tested than the average goalie) and now takes her talents to the Boston Pride, who honestly should consider starting both her and Katie Burt and only playing four skaters.

SB Nation's Women's College Hockey Division 1 Poll: 

5. Cornell (16-3-6), 83 — Last poll: 5

• Last week: W 2-1 v Rennselaer (3/1), L 0-2 v Rennselaer (3/2), W 6-1 v Rennselaer (3/3)

• This week: v Princeton (3/9), ECAC Championship (3/10)

One might say the Big Red threw away their shot(s) as they took a staggering 174 shots over three games scoring a grand total of 8, six of which came in the third game. They are glad to never see Lovisa Selander again as they now play Princeton who we assume will not be allowed to build a brick wall at their goal mouth this weekend.

Lovisa Selander is the best goalie you haven't heard of

A native of Sollentuna, Sweden, she broke Brianne McLaughlin’s 3,809-save record for most career saves in Division 1 (and as of yesterday, with a 49-save shutout against Cornell, has beaten Nicole Hensley’s 4,094, which isn’t the official record because in Hensley’s freshman year Lindenwood was still transitioning to D1). With the quarter final decider today, she's bound to add to her current 4098 saves and extend her lead at the top of the record books. 

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If you want one stat that sums up her contribution to the team, think about this. RPI have scored 49 goals total this season, which is less than all but three D1 programs. Yet their win percentage is 0.484, good for halfway down the rankings. Their ratio of win percentage to goals scored per game is 36%; the second team in the country on that stat, Cornell, is on 24%. Every goal scored by RPI gives them a 50% better chance of winning the game than any goal scored by anyone else. That’s how good Selander is.