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The way it’s August and we don’t have the season schedule yet

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You think Dempsey will become a coach at some point? Everyone says her teaching ability is amazing (makes sense because she’s a teacher) and she could be so good as a college coach. And they actually make decent money there.

Honestly feels like it may be in the picture for her! She seems to have a passion for classroom teaching, so I think she’ll stay with that for a while, but I think she’ll want to be involved in hockey too and coaching would make so much sense for her and a lot of former Boston Pride players work in college athletics on the northeast now too

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athunder921: So proud of you, Demps. It's been such a privilege to play against you and watch your leadership from afar but it's even more of an honor to have the opportunity to play with you and learn from you every day. Keep being you ❤️ the future of the game is so much better because of you #legend #ppw

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Jillian Dempsey stick handles around the defense for a goal • March 28, 2022

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Jillian Dempsey’s highlight reel goal vs the Buffalo Beauts • 1/4/2020

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Jillian Dempsey’s goal in the 2021 Isobel Cup finals • Boston Pride v. Minnesota Whitecaps

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Also to clarify what I mean by full time commitment - the phf rarely (if ever) played on weekdays, they practiced at night (that was set to change I believe the upcoming year, but never got confirmed for obvious reasons), and trades rarely happened and were usually by player request or just trading picks. There was no expansion draft, and while there was a college draft, it was basically just that if you got drafted you could only negotiate with that team for three weeks but then you could negotiate with anyone after as a free agent. I’m not saying all of these things were good- the weekends and night practices existed bc the salary wasn’t enough for most players, but to have that taken away without salaries being raised enough to justify that change in commitment was hard for players, especially when the PWHL was looking to recruit top talent like the players listed above and was going to 1) have them take a drastic paycut on the hockey side 2) have them alter their schedule entirely that would force a lot of them to give up on their other jobs. The draft being largely ceremonial and no expansion draft and no restricted free agency did rule tho we should bring that back

It like. Genuinely genuinely sucks a lot that two years after the phf folding Jillian Dempsey, Kaleigh fratkin, mallory souliotis, Madison Packer, Brittany Howard, Jonna Albers, Allie thunstrom, Caitrin lonergan, Melissa samoskevich, Claudia Kepler, Amanda leveille, Samantha ridgewell don’t play hockey. The biggest kind of loss in the changeover was this like portion of hockey players who had other job that they were able to make work with their hockey career previously but couldn’t in a new league that had much higher expectations for player movement and commitment but also required a lot of those players (who were top players in their previous league) to take a paycut AND also quit their other jobs to keep playing. The promise of previous salaries is a phf leadership issue but the insistence of putting these players )l(any players but especially like. 30 year olds who have their life built) in a draft and expecting full time commitment for poverty wages is still one we have today and still effecting the talent pool (which we very much see with adult SDHL players being expected to enter a draft, or a player like boreen getting moved in a draft TWICE while in school)

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absolutely sick over this Jillian Dempsey interview.

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Anyway her first point of the season so time to post my fave Dempsey pic

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Reppin' the champs.

@TheBostonPride captain and Isobel Cup champion @JilliantDempsey was today's honorary Fan Banner captain!

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🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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DICTIONARY.COM SAID MY CAPTAIN IS ELITE (X)

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Wow Laskova does not makes the first Czech roster of the season

It’s hard to tell if it’s a full roster and it’s definitely missing some people (although maybe a couple players it’s school related)

Very late reply my apologies - Mrázová also isn’t on it if my memory serves correct, so I can def see some of the older players taking time to rest, especially bc lasková was doing stuff with them in July I’m not too worried about national team stuff with her. Still no idea what her plans are for club play this year, tho

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You're making me miss the pride so much! Those were my girls! 😢

Truly one of the best teams we will see