Michalea and Vanessa want to know what’s in your Spotify Wrapped? PWHL Ottawa Charge head coach Carla McLeod is taking some time away from the team after a breast cancer diagnosis. Haley Irwin will serve as Ottawa’s interim head coach. The Seattle Torrent’s home opener broke an attendance record for U.S. pro women’s hockey with over 16,000 fans. The expiring WNBA CBA has been extended yet again until after the new year. The exact same thing happened in 2020, the last time there was a CBA negotiation in the WNBA. 1.2 million viewers tuned into the NWSL championship, an increase of 22% over last year. Spain defeats Germany to capture the Nations League, but suffer a huge blow when superstar midfielder Aitana Bonmati breaks her leg in training. Canada’s Women’s National Soccer Team is on a five-game losing streak and haven’t scored a goal in any of those losses, their worst run of play since 2005.

Michaela and Vanessa speak with the makers of Pink Light – director Harrison Browne and executive director Sean Addis – a Canadian short fiction film that explores identity, transition and the intersection of sport and gender. The film’s director, Harrison, is a former athlete who came out as pro hockey’s first-ever openly transgender player. For the second time in three years – and second time in franchise history – Gotham FC wins the NWSL championship – as the no. 8 seed… and Michaela called it! The WNBA draft lottery is in the books and the Dallas Wings get the no. 1 pick for the second-straight year. Will Dallas draft Azzi Fudd to play alongside superstar Paige Bueckers? The new PWHL season is underway. Sarah Nurse scores the first-ever goal in Vancouver Goldeneyes history in a win over Seattle, their expansion cousins, but then gets hurt and misses Vancouver’s second game, a 5-1 loss in Ottawa. Montreal’s Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 points. Penny Oleksiak accepts her two-year ban from competitive swimming for skipping out on performance-enhancing drug tests.

Michaela and Vanessa speak with Ottawa Charge forward Emily Clark who’s motivated after coming so close to capturing the Walter Cup last season. Emily also shares her thoughts on getting ready to travel to the west coast as Seattle and Vancouver enter the league and if the ongoing arena situation in Ottawa is affecting the team. The puck drops on the new PWHL campaign this weekend – Michaela and Vanessa gotchu covered with a full roster-by-roster season preview. Vancouver Rise are your first-ever NSL champions, hoisting the Diana B. Matheson trophy by braving a rare November lightning delay and upsetting heavily favoured AFC Toronto. Vancouver were beneficiaries of a goal off the foot of the opposing keeper and then parked the bus and withstood Toronto’s onslaught. The WNBA tables a new offer to the Union but will it be enough to entice the players to sign? It’ll be an unlikely all-east-coast NSWL final between upstarts Gotham FC and the Washington Spirit.