The Riveters, known as the New York Riveters in their first two seasons, will be rebranded the Metropolitan Riveters.
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They named their patrol The Riveters, after Rosie the Riveter.
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The N.W.H.L began its third season Saturday with the Metropolitan Riveters hosting a game at the Prudential Center in Newark, home of the N.H.L.'s Devils, who recently became part-owners of the Riveters.
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Elena Orlando, Figueroa's fellow defender on the Riveters, is a nurse.
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She recalled how after the Riveters' final home game on Feb.
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The Riveters play at the Aviator Sports & Events Center in Brooklyn.
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The Riveters will host the Boston Pride at 1:30 p.m.
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She's proud to be one of California's few remaining Rosie the Riveters.
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So it's riveters as in Rosie the Riveter, and they interview women.
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Travel for the Riveters and the Beauts also had to be considered.
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In Japan, there are no opportunities like what the Riveters have offered her.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the city's newest hockey team: the New York Riveters.
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The Riveters prioritized offense, while in Japan, where rinks are bigger, defense is emphasized.
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The Riveters will open Saturday in Buffalo, a neutral site, against the Boston Pride.
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The Boston Pride finally arrived and, with less bonhomie, shellacked the Riveters, 7-1.
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Last Saturday, the majority of the Riveters were scheduled on a 2:53 p.m.
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"The biggest thing is we need transparency right now," Riveters forward Bray Ketchum said.
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Still, Figueroa is taken aback, she conceded, when Messier asks about the latest Riveters game.
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Jenny Scrivens, a Riveters goalie, talked to us about the team and its first season.
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My mom and her cousin, Rose, (no kidding) were riveters in a wartime assembly plant.
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After completing her treatment, she tried out for the Riveters in June and was signed.
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On weekends she plays defense for the New York Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League.
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This year, the Riveters and Beauts got financial backing from the N.H.L.'s Devils and Sabres.
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Nana is undecided whether her tenure with the Riveters will be more than a one-year experiment.
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NEWARK — Before the Metropolitan Riveters' first-ever home game, in October 2015, their opponents' bus was late.
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Koelzer said if the Riveters won Friday, she would look into getting to Minnesota for Sunday's final.
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Today, Kessel, who signed with the Riveters in May, seems to be back in her pre-Olympic form.
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The Riveters dealt with predawn alarms; being momentarily stranded in Charlotte, N.C.; and losing most of their equipment.
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Riveters defender Kiira Dosdall and other players also thought the role of the players' association should be reassessed.
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Last Sunday, the Riveters hosted their final regular-season game at the Barnabas Health Hockey House in Newark.
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In front of a full rink, the Riveters won, 3-2, led by goaltender Katie Fitzgerald's 44 saves.
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Riveters games at the Aviator rink, which is inside a former plane hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, are energizing.
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Women dressed like modest Rosie the Riveters, in long red skirts, hawked a support group for ex-abortion workers.
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It was an inauspicious start, one that made it hard to envision the Riveters as a future championship contender.
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The Riveters have been discussing ways to raise money and pitch in to help teammates under serious financial strain.
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"She kind of elevates the level of play of everyone around her," said Ashley Johnston, the Riveters' captain last season.
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In June, she was selected first over all by the New York Riveters in the National Women's Hockey League draft.
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The Buffalo Beauts, the No. 2 seed, gave up the right to possibly host the championship game against the Riveters.
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Bray Ketchum, who plays for the N.W.H.L.'s New York Riveters, received an email sent to former U.S.A. Hockey players.
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Ashley Johnston, the Riveters' captain, works as a mechanical engineer in Albany and commutes to Newark for practices and games.
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The league was established last year and has four teams - the Buffalo Beauts, Boston Pride, New York Riveters and Connecticut Whale.
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Earlier in the day, the Metropolitan Riveters beat the Boston Pride 4-1 in a National Women&aposs Hockey League matchup.
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The league debuted in October and has four teams — the Riveters, the Connecticut Whale, the Boston Pride and the Buffalo Beauts.
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In June, she was the first pick in the inaugural National Women's Hockey League draft, selected by the New York Riveters.
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Jonathan was helping out with the NWHL's public relations department when he offered to be the Riveters' goalie coach one day.
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During their inaugural season, in 2015, the Riveters played at Aviator Sports and Events Center at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
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"We were all so delirious and hungry and tired, I think everybody was kind of relieved," Riveters forward Miye D'Oench said.
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Some members of the Riveters, the defending champions, see the travel problems as a possible advantage against the top-seeded Whitecaps.
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Now well-rested, many of the Riveters are confident they can defeat the Whitecaps, whom they were 0-4 against this season.
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Adachi kept track of Fujimoto with the Riveters, the league's New York-area franchise that now plays its home games in Newark.
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Members of the Pride and the Riveters confirmed that their teams discussed not playing, but they chose instead to take the ice.
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One of my recent patients is in her mid-90s and was one of the original 'Rosie the Riveters' during World War II!
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She said that Brooklyn, where the Riveters are based, seems excited to be part of building a new team from the ground up.
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The Devils' investment includes providing rent-free facilities for Riveters games and practices in Newark, and assisting in sponsorships, ticket sales and marketing.
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As a part of the deal, the Devils will promote Riveters events on television broadcasts, arena displays and online media platforms, Rylan said.
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Late last month, 130 ship builders, steel workers, welders, and riveters seized control of the storied Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic in 1909.
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Lyudmila Belyakova, 21, a forward for the Riveters, said one of the biggest difficulties for her was the distance from her family in Russia.
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The Riveters practice five times a week, and Nana and Jonathan spend much of that time working on adjusting to the NWHL's smaller rinks.
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Kelsey Koelzer, a star on defense for the Riveters, is one of those casualties in the tough financial landscape still facing pro women's hockey.
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With games on weekends and practices during the week, Riveters players have to make time and logistical sacrifices to intertwine professional hockey and other careers.
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Kaleigh Fratkin, who recently signed with the New York Riveters for $19,500, said that if worst came to worst, she would likely retire from hockey.
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Last weekend, the Metropolitan Riveters nearly re-enacted "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" trying to reach their semifinal game of the National Women's Hockey League playoffs.
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The N.W.H.L. planned to offer salaries of up to $25,000 and have four teams — the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale and New York Riveters.
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Despite a 6-1 loss, members of the Riveters stayed long afterward to mingle with fans, pose for photos and write their names on replica jerseys.
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Katie Fitzgerald, a goaltender for the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League, was Crosby's teammate at St. Cloud State during the 2015-16 season.
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All four teams — the defending champion Boston Pride, the Buffalo Beauts, the Connecticut Whale and the New York Riveters — will qualify for the single-elimination postseason.
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After finishing in last place in 2016, the Riveters defined themselves this season as a unit without much Olympic pedigree, but with a lot of chemistry.
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"It took about two months to start feeling like myself," New York Riveters forward Brooke Ammerman said when the subject of her return to hockey came up.
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The Rose City Riveters, the women's team's main fan group, give Thorns games their electric, pulsating atmosphere, and members of the group have become evangelists for the club.
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Ammerman, one of the older players on the Riveters at 25, had continued playing after graduating from the University of Wisconsin by heading to Germany and joining a team.
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Sydney Kidd of the Riveters uses her spare time to run errands with league staff, comparing it to working for a start-up where singular roles are less defined.
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For Nana, the time away from games—the Riveters play just once a week, and sometimes have weeks off—is spent exploring the city and dealing with media obligations.
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She and her sisters worked as riveters building airplanes during World War II. In 1942, she married John Lauren Sutherland, a Coast Guard officer who became a commercial fisherman.
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Some Riveters players who expected to play last Sunday will not be available for the rescheduled game because they cannot take the day off from their full-time jobs.
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When my grandfather first emigrated to this country from Germany as a teen, he worked as a riveters' helper, carrying hot rivets to the ironworker who would install them.
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Kelsey Koelzer is believed to be the first African-American taken first over all in a top-tier American hockey league draft when the Riveters selected her in June.
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However, on the New York Riveters, she scored only 14 points over 15 games; she was the second in points on her team, yet considered her performance a reality check.
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He built a devoted fan base through a thoughtful social media presence, and his wife, Jenny, was a goaltender for the New York Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League.
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The best news by far to emerge from the NWHL has been the signing of Amanda Kessel to its flagship team, the New York Riveters, for a record salary of $26,000.
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Like Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson featured in the photos above her, Fujimoto, whose 22018-foot-215 frame minds the net for the New York Riveters, has won over local fans.
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Last summer, Nana decided to pack four bags and make the move to New York to join the Riveters, one of four teams in the newly-formed National Women's Hockey League.
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NEWARK — At a recent New York Riveters practice, Amanda Kessel spent the time allotted for water breaks circling the ice, looking as if she were itching to start the next drill.
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For the past two seasons, Ashley Johnston, the Riveters' captain and an All-Star last season, has commuted to practices and games from Albany, where she has a full-time job.
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But Wiseman, who often commutes from his home in Canada to New Jersey to coach the team, credited much of the Riveters' ascent to the four originals, as do their teammates.
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This month, the Pegulas relinquished control of the team to the league after the mass player sit-out (the Devils also ended their two-year partnership with the N.W.H.L.'s Riveters).
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The centerpiece will be a 5,000-seat rink that could eventually be the home of the Riveters, whose muscle-flexing logo figure honors Rosie the Riveter, a symbol of American women who worked in factories during World War II. In Figueroa's role as project engineer for Gilbane Building Company, she speaks of abatements, excavations and cantilevers with the same composure with which she fends off opponents or charges up the ice to set up a Riveters power play.
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One of four teams in the new league, the Riveters play home games at Aviator Sports and Event Center in Brooklyn, where Figueroa's parents and grandparents are regulars among the boisterous crowds.
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Tonight, several players will join Dani Rylan, the league's founder and commissioner, and Chad Wiseman, the Riveters' coach and former New York Ranger, to discuss the team at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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Her Minnesota and Riveters teammate Milica McMillen said that over the last year, Kessel showed no restraint on the ice, suggesting she could be "even better" than she was before her concussion.
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Two seasons later, guided by the original members Kiira Dosdall, Ashley Johnston, Bray Ketchum and Madison Packer, the Riveters, coached by Chad Wiseman, had the best record in the N.W.H.L. (13-3).
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But Kimberly Sass, a backup goaltender for the Riveters who documented last weekend's travel woes on social media, is starting a new full-time job and cannot afford to take Friday off.
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"You love to hate them, but you respect them," said the former Wisconsin forward Madison Packer, who now plays with Kessel for the New York Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League.
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"They've made that clear, that we need to rebuild some trust," Dani Rylan, the N.W.H.L.'s commissioner, said on Sunday during the Riveters' 4-0 win over the Connecticut Whale in Newark.
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Nana decided to attend tryouts in New York last June, and she received an offer from Dani Rylan, the general manager of the Riveters (and commissioner of the league) after her first day.
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His final game as a professional hockey player could come Friday when the Beauts, seeded third in the opening round of the N.W.H.L. playoffs, face the second-seeded New York Riveters, in Newark.
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The Devils will become the first N.H.L. team to hold an ownership stake in a women's professional hockey franchise, agreeing to a three-year partnership with the Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League.
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All of the Riveters' core four credited Wiseman with creating a rigid culture that brought them to the apex of the league, even when they may not always have had the most talented roster.
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League merchandise with his name on it ranks third in sales, behind that of Amanda Kessel of the New York Riveters and Hilary Knight of the Boston Pride, who are both United States Olympians.
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"They say women are the best at multitasking, so it makes sense they are able to do it all," said Rylan, who played hockey at Northeastern and is also the general manager of the Riveters.
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"We thought her hockey career was done after that last game two years ago at Cornell, so this is all bonus," she said, motioning toward Riveters who were laughing and enjoying another team-bonding night.
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The Riveters play the Beauts on Sunday in Buffalo, but they'll be back to face the Pride on their home ice at the Aviator Sports and Events Center at Floyd Bennett Field, on Feb. 6.
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Several Japanese women play at the sport's highest professional level, including the goaltender Nana Fujimoto, a star of the national team who played last season for the New York Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League.
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"When I signed up to play for this team, I had no idea it would be this great of an environment," said Figueroa, still wearing her Riveters sweater as she was surrounded by teammates and their families.
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On top of it all, this week Jenny Scrivens, a New York Riveters goaltender and fan favorite who as an employee of the NWHL's public relations department was responsible for cleaning up these snafus, announced her retirement.
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The Connecticut Whale and New York Riveters had four and three apiece, but none of New York's national team players were American or Canadian; all came from second- or third-tier national teams, such as Team Japan.
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Kessel will be viewed as the offensive centerpiece for the Riveters, who want to improve on a 4-12-2 record in the second season of the four-team National Women's Hockey League, which began play Friday.
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Battaglino, the league office and players on the Riveters, the Whitecaps and the Beauts, who won their semifinal matchup against the Boston Pride on Saturday, had to figure out when and where to hold a makeup game.
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Alexa Gruschow sent a shot past Beauts goaltender Amanda Leveille 5 minutes 33 seconds into the first period and Katie Fitzgerald sealed the shutout, making 28 saves, as the Riveters won, 1-0, capturing their first N.W.H.L. title.
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While a majority of the Riveters were to fly out Thursday night (with no serious inclement weather in the forecast), Battaglino said seven players or staff members would travel separately from the team to better accommodate their schedules.
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The Pegula family, which owns the Buffalo Bills and Sabres, gave up ownership of the N.W.H.L's Buffalo Beauts after the top players announced their boycott; the Devils also ended their partnership with the Metropolitan Riveters about a week later.
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The Riveters, named for the always-encouraging Rosie and with a nod to the city's industrial past, are one of four teams in the National Women's Hockey League, the first professional female hockey league (to pay its players, that is).
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"We have all heard of Rosie the Riveters taking these blue collar jobs during the war, but what is less well known is that there were all these women working in white collar jobs, too," Mary Morgan's son and biographer, George Morgan, told Motherboard.
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Steadman's call up proved fortuitous: although the Beauts have only four wins through the All-Star break—three, including a shoot out, against the New York Riveters and one in OT against Boston—Steadman is second in the league in goals, and fourth in points.
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Johnston, who commutes from the Albany area for Riveters practices and games, joked that driving toward the Rockaways took 10 years off her life (it did, actually eat away at the life span of her car — Johnston's engine died before this season, forcing her to replace it).
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Utilizing Barnabas Health Hockey House, the Devils' practice facility, gives Riveters players amenities, like their own locker room and access to ice time, that weren't always available when they were based out of Aviator Sports and Events Center at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn during the 2015-16 season.
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This Labor Day, the most effective way for politicians to help fix the rigged economic system and rebuild the middle class in America is to support the Rosie the Riveters of 2017: the brave women who are leading the campaign to turn hospital jobs into good union jobs.
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"With the time I'm allotted and what I can do, this is as good as it's going to get," said Ammerman, who coaches two different teams full-time in addition to her time on the ice for the Riveters, and is planning offseason camps she will run with her fiancé, as well as a summer wedding.
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Jonathan hopes the league can become a long-term option for female professional hockey players to extend their careers and get paid—not just players like Nana, but like his daughter Rosalyn, who is 13 and has already been playing hockey for five years and can often be found hanging out at the rink while the Riveters practice.
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The desire to rise to their level has also driven Janine Weber of Austria, who formerly played in the C.W.H.L., and scored the winning goal in last year's league final, before becoming the first player to sign with the N.W.H.L. Before the season, Weber said she favored the increase in practice and individual training times made available by the Riveters, which would offset her inability to work another job.
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