Starting Six - May 26

Boston Cleans Out

It's our third annual awards show but sadly because of the fucking heat I had to abandon the glad rags and I'm raving because this year I had purple ones I wanted to show youAnyways this year's award show took place in Detroit who switched things up by holding them before the Entry Draft unlike in prior years

Oh My God Hey

The last place I would expect our beloved Professional Women's Hockey League to get name dropped was on the live stream of a YouTube channel that I'm subscribed toBut that is what happened as Mickey Jo Theatre a YouTube channel that I'm subscribed to which covers my big passion outside of hockey read a comment from the live chat of his Oliver Awards streamThe comment referenced the lesbian wedding that happened at the Ottawa Charge's game which the Seattle Torrent won in thrilling fashionWatch the stream here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3DfsDZe5Q

Kellyoke

Not long after Team USA claimed gold in Milano-Cortina the Montreal Victoire's very own Hayley Scarmurra went on the Kelly Clarkson ShowNow this should have been a good thing but it ended in disaster as for starters Kelly wasn't there, second it was only roughly five minutes and lastly not much focus on the sport she playsAt the end of the episode I do my own version of Kellyoke picking one of my favourites from American Song Contest because Pluto couldn't think of a Kelly Clarkson song on the spotWatch it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNNrrTluUPk

Front and Center

Ever since the Vancouver Goldeneyes played their first game at Pacific Coliseum our Pluto has an idea about what it would be like to have all of the PWHL teams be able to have theirs on center iceI let him take the floor while also posing some devil's advocate scenarios in what is a very lighthearted edition of the Purple Reign podcast

Starting Six - May 26

The PWHL Starting Six is where each month the league will recognise three forwards, two defenders and one goaltenderIn this final Starting Six recap for the 2025/26 season the Purple Trio celebrate the Starting Six for the month of May 2026