The 2025 PWHL Draft was the third annual draft in Professional Women's Hockey League history, and took place on June 24, 2025, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Kristýna Kaltounková was selected first overall by the New York Sirens.
Eligibility The declaration period for the draft opened on March 1, 2025, and closed on May 8. Undrafted players will become free agents; players must declare for the draft to reach free agency. Selected players may re-enter the draft if they are not signed to their draft club after two years. No player may declare for more than two drafts. Players ineligible to play in the 2025–26 season were not eligible to be selected.
On May 15, 2025, the PWHL released the full list of eligible players. In total, 199 eligible players declared for the draft, of which 117 were forwards, 56 were defenders, and 26 were goaltenders.
Top prospects Top skaters Source: The Hockey News (June 1, 2025) ranking.
Ranking Player School/club team 1 Kristýna Kaltounková (C) Colgate (NCAA) 2 Haley Winn (D) Clarkson (NCAA) 3 Casey O'Brien (C) Wisconsin (NCAA) 4 Nicole Gosling (D) Clarkson (NCAA) 5 Natálie Mlýnková (LW) Minnesota (NCAA) 6 Rory Guilday (D) Cornell (NCAA) 7 Michelle Karvinen (LW) Frölunda HC (SDHL) 8 Anne Cherkowski (C) Clarkson (NCAA) 9 Kendall Cooper (D) Quinnipiac (NCAA) 10 Jenna Buglioni (C) Ohio State (NCAA)
Top goaltenders Source: The Hockey News (June 1, 2025) ranking. Ranking Player School/club team 1 Sanni Ahola St. Cloud State (NCAA) 2 Hannah Murphy Colgate (NCAA) 3 Ena Nystrøm Brynäs IF (SDHL)
Expansion The PWHL established two new teams for the 2025–26 season, the Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes. In order to help these new teams fill their rosters, the league granted them an exclusive signing window from June 4–8, and held an expansion draft on June 9, 2025.
Protected lists and exclusive signing window Before 5:00 pm on June 3, each current team submitted the names of three current players under contract for next season to the league to be protected from signing by the expansion teams. After a current team lost two players, they were allowed to protect a fourth player. Once the protected lists were submitted, the Seattle and Vancouver teams had a five-day exclusive window, from June 4 through June 8, to sign up to five players each. Any player who was either unprotected, or on an expiring contract, could be signed by either expansion team.
Protected players Boston Minnesota Montreal New York Ottawa Toronto Aerin Frankel Kendall Coyne Schofield Ann-Renée Desbiens Sarah Fillier Emily Clark Renata Fast Megan Keller Taylor Heise Marie-Philip Poulin Ella Shelton Gwyneth Philips Blayre Turnbull Alina Müller Lee Stecklein Laura Stacey Micah Zandee-Hart Ronja Savolainen Daryl Watts Shay Maloney Britta Curl-Salemme Erin Ambrose Maja Nylén Persson Gabbie Hughes Emma Maltais
Signed players Round Seattle Torrent Vancouver Goldeneyes Player Former team Player Former team 1 Hilary Knight Boston Fleet Claire Thompson Minnesota Frost 2 Danielle Serdachny Ottawa Charge Sophie Jaques Minnesota Frost 3 Cayla Barnes Montreal Victoire Sarah Nurse Toronto Sceptres 4 Alex Carpenter New York Sirens Emerance Maschmeyer Ottawa Charge 5 Corinne Schroeder New York Sirens Jennifer Gardiner Montreal Victoire
Expansion draft On June 9, the two expansion teams drafted at least seven additional players from the current PWHL teams, until they reached a 12-player roster. If one (or both) of the expansion teams signed fewer than five players during the exclusive signing window, they would receive more than seven picks in the expansion draft. On June 6, 2025, the Seattle Torrent announced that they had come to agreement with New York Sirens goaltender Corinne Schroeder, ensuring that both teams picked the minimum number of players (seven) in the expansion draft.
Brooke McQuigge, Gabby Rosenthal, and Anna Wilgren are restricted free agents with their rights controlled by Vancouver or Seattle; they will technically not be members of those teams until they sign a contract in free agency.
NumberPlayerPositionPWHL teamTeam drafted from1 Ashton Bell D Vancouver Goldeneyes Ottawa Charge 2 Aneta Tejralová D Seattle Torrent Ottawa Charge 3 Hannah Bilka F Seattle Torrent Boston Fleet 4 Brooke McQuigge F Vancouver Goldeneyes Minnesota Frost 5 Abigail Boreen F Vancouver Goldeneyes Montreal Victoire 6 Jessie Eldridge F Seattle Torrent New York Sirens 7 Julia Gosling F Seattle Torrent Toronto Sceptres 8 Izzy Daniel F Vancouver Goldeneyes Toronto Sceptres 9 Gabby Rosenthal F Vancouver Goldeneyes New York Sirens 10 Anna Wilgren D Seattle Torrent Montreal Victoire 11 Megan Carter D Seattle Torrent Toronto Sceptres 12 Denisa Křížová F Vancouver Goldeneyes Minnesota Frost 13 Sydney Bard D Vancouver Goldeneyes Boston Fleet 14 Emily Brown D Seattle Torrent Boston Fleet
Format The eight teams will pick in each of six rounds for a total of 48 selections. The top selection in the draft was determined by the Gold Plan, where standings points accumulated by a team that can no longer make the playoffs count as draft order points, and the team with the most draft order points received the first overall selection. On June 13, the PWHL announced the order that all teams would pick for all six rounds of the draft.
Selections by round Round one # Player Nationality PWHL team School/club team 1 Kristýna Kaltounková (F) New York Sirens Colgate (NCAA) 2 Haley Winn (D) Boston Fleet Clarkson (NCAA) 3 Casey O'Brien (F) New York Sirens (from Toronto) Wisconsin (NCAA) 4 Nicole Gosling (D) Montreal Victoire Clarkson (NCAA) 5 Rory Guilday (D) Ottawa Charge Cornell (NCAA) 6 Kendall Cooper (D) Minnesota Frost Quinnipiac (NCAA) 7 Michelle Karvinen (F) / Vancouver Goldeneyes Frölunda HC (SDHL) 8 Jenna Buglioni (F) Seattle Torrent Ohio State (NCAA)
Round two # Player Nationality PWHL team School/club team 9 Anne Cherkowski (F) New York Sirens Clarkson (NCAA) 10 Ella Huber (F) Boston Fleet Minnesota (NCAA) 11 Emma Gentry (F) Toronto Sceptres St. Cloud State (NCAA) 12 Natálie Mlýnková (F) Montreal Victoire Minnesota (NCAA) 13 Anna Shokhina (F) Ottawa Charge Dynamo-Neva St. Petersburg (ZhHL) 14 Abby Hustler (F) Minnesota Frost St. Lawrence (NCAA) 15 Hannah Murphy (G) Seattle Torrent Colgate (NCAA) 16 Kiara Zanon (F) Toronto Sceptres (from Vancouver Goldeneyes) Ohio State (NCAA)
Round three # Player Nationality PWHL team School/club team 17 Makenna Webster (F) New York Sirens Ohio State (NCAA) 18 Olivia Mobley (F) Boston Fleet Minnesota Duluth (NCAA) 19 Nina Jobst-Smith (F) / Vancouver Goldeneyes (from Toronto) Minnesota Duluth (NCAA) 20 Skylar Irving (F) Montreal Victoire Northeastern (NCAA) 21 Sarah Wozniewicz (F) Ottawa Charge Wisconsin (NCAA) 22 Anna Segedi (F) / Minnesota Frost St. Lawrence (NCAA) 23 Clara Van Wieren (F) Toronto Sceptres (from Vancouver Goldeneyes) Minnesota Duluth (NCAA) 24 Lily Delianedis (F) Seattle Torrent Cornell (NCAA)
Round four # Player Nationality PWHL team School/club team 25 Dayle Ross (D) New York Sirens St. Cloud State (NCAA) 26 Riley Brengman (D) Boston Fleet Ohio State (NCAA) 27 Maddi Wheeler (F) New York Sirens (from Toronto) Ohio State (NCAA) 28 Callie Shanahan (G) New York Sirens (from Montreal) Boston University (NCAA) 29 Peyton Hemp (F) Ottawa Charge Minnesota (NCAA) 30 Ava Rinker (D) Minnesota Frost UConn (NCAA) 31 Jada Habisch (F) Seattle Torrent UConn (NCAA) 32 Brianna Brooks (F) Vancouver Goldeneyes Penn State (NCAA)
Round five # Player Nationality PWHL team School/club team 33 Anna Bargman (F) New York Sirens Yale (NCAA) 34 Abby Newhook (F) Boston Fleet Boston College (NCAA) 35 Sara Hjalmarsson (F) Toronto Sceptres Linköping HC (SDHL) 36 Maya Labad (F) Montreal Victoire Quinnipiac (NCAA) 37 Sanni Ahola (G) Ottawa Charge St. Cloud State (NCAA) 38 Vanessa Upson (F) Minnesota Frost Mercyhurst (NCAA) 39 Madison Samoskevich (D) Vancouver Goldeneyes Quinnipiac (NCAA) 40 Lyndie Lobdell (D) Seattle Torrent Penn State (NCAA)
Round six # Player Nationality PWHL team School/club team 41 Kaley Doyle (G) New York Sirens Quinnipiac (NCAA) 42 Amanda Thiele (G) Boston Fleet Ohio State (NCAA) 43 Hanna Baskin (D) Toronto Sceptres Minnesota Duluth (NCAA) 44 Tamara Giaquinto (D) Montreal Victoire Boston University (NCAA) 45 Fanuza Kadirova (F) Ottawa Charge Dynamo-Neva St. Petersburg (ZhHL) 46 Brooke Becker (D) Minnesota Frost Providence (NCAA) 47 Olivia Wallin (F) Seattle Torrent Minnesota Duluth (NCAA) 48 Chanreet Bassi (F) Vancouver Goldeneyes UBC (U Sports)
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