With free agency only days away, each PWHL team has needs. Every team in the league has at least 10 players to sign to get to their 23 player roster, plus up to three reserves, ahead of the 2025-26 campaign.

While she is not quite a rookie, Wilgren did finish up her first year in the PWHL playing for the Montreal Victoire, recording nine points off three goals and six assists. Her three goals scored this season makes her the highest scoring defenseman that Seattle has picked up so far.

The Professional Women's Hockey League is expanding to Seattle and Vancouver next season. The news was music to the ears of young players like Elly Garcia-Dudek.

The PWHL expansion process is over. Now it's on to free agency and the PWHL entry draft. With so many holes punched in rosters through expansion, free agency will be hugely important process this offseason.

Until about 1914, women played hockey in sweaters and long, heavy woolen skirts, which were terrible for skating but decent at blocking pucks. After WWI, bloomers or culottes offered better

Montreal Victoire’s Marie-Philip Poulin attempts a shot on Ottawa Charge goaltender Gwyneth Philips during-third period PWHL playoff hockey action in Ottawa, on Friday, May 16, 2025. Spencer Colby THE CANADIAN PRESS The Montreal Victoire has chosen to protect goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens and forwards Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey from being available to the PWHL’s expansion franchises in Seattle and Vancouver.