u/Targen0

Happy draft day to all, may the odds and good selection decisions be in our favor!

Turner has said she wants a heavy game next year, players who bring speed, physicality and strong off-the puck play; who on the draft board would be a good fit?

Besides the top two convo we’ve been hearing between Laila or Abbey who are some other gems you hope we are able to draft? Any mock drafts past the first round look promising?

Being a higher draft spot in each round, should we expect to see any trade magic?

Thoughts?! If anything thought this might be a good thread for draft day discussions…

Seattle Torrent Draft Picks

🌊 Round 1 - Pick 2

🌊 Round 2 - Pick 14

🌊 Round 3 - Pick 26

🌊 Round 4 - Pick 38

🌊 Round 5 - Pick 50

🌊 Round 6 - Pick 62

I really hope the PWHL front office had the vision to start filming behind the scenes content of the 4 team expansion process. Phase 2 alone. 🤯

I’m looking for Hard Knocks meets, NFL war room spy cameras / GM calls during draft day, toss in a touch of Bravo-style off season spice and drama, while including down to earth community and player profiles that Welcome to Wrexham FC does(on FX). My goodness the reality tea of this would be fascinating to watch!

I suspect they may lurk here from time to time.

Sooooo, Hi 👋 here is my pitch to create or fund shooting content for a few episodes; something like the newbie draft/ expansion fall out and pre-season/ start of the season. Imagine how many more eyeballs we get on the league and help raise familiarity/profiles of more players and community causes. Potential for big sponsorship opportunities to come forward. So many incredible personalities in the league, the potential is endless.

For fans: I can’t be the only one who would watch?Thoughts?

I am all the feelings today and as a fanbase, no surprise we are clearly in a collective group therapy session atm.

As phase 2 ends and we make sense of the shit show, I do have to say, try and remember how lucky we are to be this upset. Cringe, I know, know. That was bad. I was trying to shake off some of the debbie downer energy and noticed myself being drawn to respond with more grateful than grumpy. Figured I’d share on the off chance it works for you. Add yours, snark or sweet, whatever you need to move through it.

🌀I’m grateful the PWHL exists, how lucky are we to witness the creation of this league for the women who didn’t have the chance to play to the girls whose dream is possible.

🌀I’m grateful for Seattle, for being an incredible women’s pro sport city where fans can feel safe, authentically seen and show up with LFG energy - 17k strong.

🌀I’m grateful to the PWHL/Torrent, chose us to be the home for one of the now 12 teams in this historic league. We have a TEAM, other cities are not as fortunate.

🌀I’m grateful to the 3 who shall not be named, for making the first year magical, bringing more eyeballs to the sport, league and city; and most importantly giving the US an Olympic Hockey Team and gold medal moment we will never forget and can all be proud of. 🥇

🌀I’m grateful Detroit will be your new hometown, hear me out, because they need the big names to draw the eyes and attention towards women’s sports right now across the state. Who knows, maybe your BIG10 credentials can be the rising tide to help turn college clubs into D1 women’s colleges hockey programs once again.

🌀I’m grateful to Schroeder, who built an incredible goalie community and foundation we will continue to benefit from; I recognize there will probably be other players we likely will lose, in general ya’ll deserved more recognition and more personalized arena chants.

🌀I’m grateful to have this community to talk to and over analyze, rabbit hole and nerd out with cause it’s been a doozy of a season and expansion in year one…can’t wait to experience the magic of year two at the girl aquarium.

🫶🏻Lastly, I’m grateful we have a start to something incredible. The league is new and figuring it out too. Lesson or two likely have been learned, maybe? Transparency and honesty matter, so does having a head coach on staff! Also, player surveys might be key moving forward, just sayin.

And if someone from the league happens to read this know: yelling and chirping at the refs for stupid mistakes, we live for, don’t think it won’t be directed your way if we don’t get the 2nd draft pick AND some sort of compensatory draft pick. Seattle WILL hold a grudge.