With the 2026 Winter Olympics right around the corner, Purple Posts is celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in Olympic women’s hockey history. On this episode, host LJ Bachenheimer is joined by Meredith Foster, editor and international hockey expert at The Ice Garden, to talk about Sweden’s remarkable run to a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Games. With a roster based around previous success and college connections, plus a young phenom in goal, Sweden pushed through challenges and the world’s best women’s hockey teams to earn their spot in the gold medal game. LJ and Meredith walk through the team’s identity, the career of “cheat code” forward Maria Rooth, the remarkable shootout win over Team USA, and more. Stay to the end for our 2026 Olympics predictions!

Purple Posts is a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in women’s hockey history, presented by The Ice Garden Podcast Network. If you like the show, please subscribe and leave us a five-star review. You can also follow The Ice Garden and become a paid subscriber today.

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With the international break over, join Geremy on this solo cast talking about what's next regarding the Olympics and what's real about the PWHL results so far.

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Crease Huddles is a podcast about women's hockey from The Ice Garden. Every episode will have a panel of the various nerdy writers from TIG to discuss anything and everything women's hockey, from the PWHL to the NCAA to international tournaments. If you've ever wondered what its like in TIG's Slack channels, this is the podcast for you.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to manage medical care for a pro women’s hockey league? Today's guest can tell you all about it.

On the first episode of Purple Posts People, host LJ speaks with Dr. Tina Atkinson, the PWHL’s Chief Medical Officer. Throughout their conversation, Dr. Atkinson details her extensive career in sports medicine, the work she and her team do to care for athletes’ physical and mental health, and the challenges and complexities of managing medical systems for a league that spans eight cities across two countries.

Purple Posts People is an interview-focused spinoff of Purple Posts, The Ice Garden’s offbeat women’s hockey history podcast. On each episode, get to know a different person working in women’s hockey in a unique or interesting role, brought to you by the same team behind the rest of The Ice Garden Podcast Network’s great offerings. If you like the show, please subscribe and leave us a five-star review. You can also follow The Ice Garden and become a paid subscriber today.

Intro and outro music: Found Smoke by Pitx © copyright 2014. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/48064