Metropolitan Riveters

Metropolitan Riveters
founding	2015
history	New York Riveters (2015-2017) Metropolitan Riveters (since 2017)
Stadion	Barnabas Health Hockey House
Location	Newark , New Jersey , USA
Team colors	  
league	National Women's Hockey League (since 2015)
Head coach	Chad Wiseman
Team captain	Ashley Johnston
Isobel cups	2017/18

The Metropolitan Riveters are an American women's ice hockey team from Newark , New Jersey that has played in the National Women's Hockey League since 2015 . In 2018 the Riveters won the Isobel Cup for the first time in their history .

history

The poster We Can Do It! (approx. 1942) served as a template for the Riveters logo

The Riveters were founded in 2015 under the name New York Riveters as a franchise of the National Women's Hockey League . The franchise name and logo make reference to Rosie the Riveter , a fictional, popular female character from the Second World War .

In the summer of 2015, the Riveters signed Janine Weber as the first player , making her the first ever NWHL player. In the 2015 NWHL Draft , the Riveters selected Alex Carpenter first , who won the silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics .

The club's first home venue was the Aviator Sports & Events Center in Brooklyn , New York City . In May 2016, the Riveters signed Amanda Kessel . Kessel received a total of US $ 26,000 for the one-year contract, making her the highest-paid player in the league at the time.

Lyudmila Belyakova (2016)

Harrison Browne (October 2017)

As part of the NWHL Draft 2016 , the Riveters again had the first right to vote and chose Kelsey Koelzer from Princeton University .

The Riveters have played their home games at Barnabas Health Hockey House in Newark since the 2016/17 season . In the run-up to the 2017/18 season , the Riveters entered into a partnership with the New Jersey Devils from the National Hockey League (NHL), making them the first NWHL team to officially cooperate with an NHL franchise. In the course of this, the team renamed itself Metropolitan Riveters and adopted the team colors of the Devils. In the 2017/18 season, the Riveters not only won the regular season , but also defeated the Buffalo Beauts in the play-off final , thus winning the Isobel Cup .

successes

• Isobel Cup : 2018

Season statistics

Legend for season statistics: GP or SP = total games; W or S = victories; L or N = defeats; T or U = tie; OTS = wins after extra time ( overtime ); OTN or OL = overtime defeats; SOS = shootout wins; SOL or SON = Shootout Losses; P = points; Pct% = wins in%; GF or T = goals; GA or GT = goals conceded

season	Sp	S.	OTN	SON	N	T	GT	Pt	Regular season	Postseason
2015/16	18th	4th	2	0	12	47	78	10	4th place	1 round
2016/17	18th	8th	1	2	7th	55	58	19th	place 2	1 round
2017/18	16	13	0		3	64	30th	26th	1st place	Isobel Cup

Well-known players

• Lyudmila Belyakova
• Harrison Browne
• Alex Carpenter
• Nana Fujimoto
• Alexa Gruschow
• Amanda Kessel
• Kelsey Koelzer
• Erika Lawler
• Madison Packer
• Michelle Picard
• Shin so-young
• Janine Weber

Web links

Commons : Metropolitan Riveters  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Metropolitan Riveters website (Engl.)
• Team profile at eliteprospects.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ NWHL Announces Historic First Player Signing - NWHL. In: nwhl.co. June 10, 2015, accessed May 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Pat Borzi: Amanda Kessel skates away with the NWHL's highest salary. In: espn.com. May 2, 2016, accessed March 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Koelzer is Top Draft Pick in 2016 NWHL Draft - Princeton University. In: goprincetontigers.com. June 18, 2016, accessed March 28, 2018 . 
4. ^ Riveters Move to Barnabas Health Hockey House. In: nwhl.zone. August 1, 2016, accessed March 28, 2018 . 
5. ^ Seth Berkman: Devils Will Invest in a Women's Hockey Franchise. In: nytimes.com . October 4, 2017, accessed March 28, 2018 .