Could 3, 2025; Dallas, Texas, USA; A view of a hockey stick and pucks earlier than the sport between the Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche in recreation seven of the primary spherical of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs at American Airways Middle. Necessary Credit score: Jerome Miron-Imagn Photographs Ottawa Cost defender Ashton Bell was chosen by Vancouver with the primary general choose within the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League growth draft on Monday.
Seattle then had the following two decisions and chosen Ottawa defender Aneta Tejralova and Boston Fleet ahead Hannah Bilka.
Bell, 25, had three objectives and three assists in 27 video games for Ottawa final season, giving her 5 objectives and eight assists by two seasons (51 video games) with the Cost.
The College of Minnesota-Duluth product was a part of Canada’s gold-medal-winning 2022 Olympic group and its 2021, 2022 and 2024 championship squads within the IIHF Girls’s World Championships.
Tejralova, 29, produced one objective and 9 assists in 30 video games final season after posting two objectives and 6 assists in 23 video games the prior marketing campaign. She received bronze medals with the Czech Republic group on the 2022 and 2023 World Championships.
Bilka, 24, is coming off a five-goal, six-assist rookie marketing campaign in 16 video games for the Fleet. The Ohio State alumna was on america’ profitable 2023 World Championships squad.
A lottery win allowed Vancouver to both have the primary choose or the second and third choose, and Vancouver normal supervisor Cara Gardner Morey went for the previous choice. Following Seattle’s picks at Nos. 2 and three, the groups alternated making two picks apiece.
Vancouver wound up selecting 5 forwards and two defenders, whereas Seattle picked 4 defenders and three forwards.
The growth draft got here after each groups had a chance to enroll to 5 gamers left unprotected by the present six golf equipment, and every group reached the restrict. Seattle made a giant splash by signing former Boston ahead Hilary Knight, a four-time U.S. Olympian.
Neither the Vancouver group nor the Seattle group has introduced a nickname forward becoming a member of the PWSL for the 2025-26 season.
Vancouver’s PWSL growth draft picks
D Ashton Bell, from Ottawa Cost
F Brooke McQuigge, from Minnesota Frost
F Abby Boreen, from Montreal Victoire
F Izzy Daniel, from Toronto Sceptres
F Gabby Rosenthal, New York Sirens
F Denisa Krizova, from Minnesota Frost
D Sydney Bard, from Boston Fleet
Seattle’s PWSL growth draft picks
D Aneta Tejralova, from Ottawa Cost
F Hannah Bilka, from Boston Fleet
F Jessie Eldridge, from New York Sirens
F Julia Gosling, from Toronto Sceptres
D Anna Wilgren, from Montreal Victoire
D Megan Carter, from Toronto Sceptres
D Emily Brown, from Boston Fleet
Gamers signed by Vancouver
D Claire Thompson, previously with Minnesota Frost
D Sophie Jaques, previously with Minnesota Frost
F Sarah Nurse, previously with Toronto Sceptres
G Emerance Maschmeyer, previously with Ottawa Cost
F Jennifer Gardiner, previously with Montreal Victoire
Gamers signed by Seattle
F Hilary Knight, previously with Boston Fleet
F Danielle Serdachny, previously with Ottawa Cost
D Cayla Barnes, previously with Montreal Victoire
F Alex Carpenter, previously with New York Sirens
G Corinne Schroeder, previously with New York Sirens
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