After PWHL Expansion Draft, Original Teams Start Their Roster Rebuilds
The post After PWHL Expansion Draft, Original Teams Start Their Roster Rebuilds appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Former Boston Fleet captain Hilary Knight is now a member of expansion PWHL Seattle. Courtey: PWHL Are these all-star squads or expansion teams? After last Monday’s first-ever PWHL Expansion Draft, it was hard to tell. But since the PWHL is a single-owner league that has successfully prioritized parity across its franchises, the league’s newest teams are being built with the goal of making them immediately competitive. With only so much talent to go around, that comes at a cost to the six original squads, and has caused heartbreak among those fanbases. Both PWHL Seattle and PWHL Vancouver took advantage of an exclusive signing window to ink five big-name players to their rosters. Each then added seven more names in the expansion draft. When all was said and done, Seattle general manager Meghan Turner had basically set the top of her forward group, with U.S. national team stars Hannah Bilka, Alex Carpenter and Hilary Knight supported by Canadians Julia Gosling, Danielle Serdachny and Jessie Eldridge. “We got the first two lines, I feel like, pretty solid,” Turner said. After spending the last two seasons as the assistant general manager in Boston, Turner had a front-row opportunity to watch Knight, the current U.S. national team captain, Olympic gold medalist and all-time record holder for most medals at the women’s world championship (10 gold, five silver). The 35-year-old has announced that her fifth Olympics in Italy in 2026 will be her last, but the opportunity to help build PWHL Seattle was irresistible for the Idaho native — and Turner is thrilled to have her. “Hilary is a superstar in every way, right?” she said. “The way she plays, the way she carries herself in the locker room, the way she carries herself outside the rink — she’s really got it all. I think…
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Former Boston Fleet captain Hilary Knight is now a member of expansion PWHL Seattle. Courtey: PWHL Are these all-star squads or expansion teams? After last Monday’s first-ever PWHL Expansion Draft, it was hard to tell. But since the PWHL is a single-owner league that has successfully prioritized parity across its franchises, the league’s newest teams are being built with the goal of making them immediately competitive. With only so much talent to go around, that comes at a cost to the six original squads, and has caused heartbreak among those fanbases. Both PWHL Seattle and PWHL Vancouver took advantage of an exclusive signing window to ink five big-name players to their rosters. Each then added seven more names in the expansion draft. When all was said and done, Seattle general manager Meghan Turner had basically set the top of her forward group, with U.S. national team stars Hannah Bilka, Alex Carpenter and Hilary Knight supported by Canadians Julia Gosling, Danielle Serdachny and Jessie Eldridge. “We got the first two lines, I feel like, pretty solid,” Turner said. After spending the last two seasons as the assistant general manager in Boston, Turner had a front-row opportunity to watch Knight, the current U.S. national team captain, Olympic gold medalist and all-time record holder for most medals at the women’s world championship (10 gold, five silver). The 35-year-old has announced that her fifth Olympics in Italy in 2026 will be her last, but the opportunity to help build PWHL Seattle was irresistible for the Idaho native — and Turner is thrilled to have her. “Hilary is a superstar in every way, right?” she said. “The way she plays, the way she carries herself in the locker room, the way she carries herself outside the rink — she’s really got it all. I think…
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