PWHL RELEASES KEY DATES, RULES, AND PROCEDURES FOR 2025 EXPANSION …
May 19, 2025 · June 3 at Noon ET . Player protection lists DUE . Each of the six inaugural PWHL teams will have the opportunity to initially protect three players from selection in the Exclusive Signing Window and the Expansion Draft. After an inaugural team has relinquished two players - whether through the Exclusive Signing Window or the Expansion Draft - that team will be permitted to protect one ...
PWHL unveils expansion draft and signing guidelines for its 2 …
The PWHL’s two newest franchises in Seattle and Vancouver will begin stocking their rosters early next month through an exclusive free agency period followed by an expansion draft. Under the guidelines announced Monday, the six existing teams will each lose four players during the two-phase process beginning with a signing period spanning ...
PWHL expansion draft explainer: How it works and what's at stake
May 22, 2025 · Host Anastasia Bucsis and PWHL insider Karissa Donkin explore how the PWHL expansion draft could play out on June 9th, and they give their picks of who they would protect. The expansion draft is ...
PWHL announces expansion draft rules, details on protecting …
May 19, 2025 · The PWHL’s expansion draft is unique, given that the rules are far more favorable to its newest franchises than its original six. In the WNBA, teams could protect six players from being selected ...
PWHL announces rules, format for 2025 expansion draft - Daily …
May 19, 2025 · On Monday, the league announced the key dates, rules and procedures for its first-ever expansion draft. It comes after the league formally announced the additions of franchises in Vancouver and Seattle in time for the 2025-26 season.
PWHL unveils expansion teams’ signing rules, draft
May 19, 2025 · The PWHL today unveiled key dates and rules for the “upcoming exclusive signing window and expansion draft” for its newest expansion teams in Vancouver and Seattle. The exclusive signing window will run from June 4 to 8, with Vancouver and Seattle being able to “add up to five players each.”
Here’s How PWHL Expansion Draft, Procedures Affect Fleet - NESN
May 20, 2025 · Seattle and Vancouver are preparing for the 2025-26 season, and the process of building their rosters begins next month. The process includes protected player lists, an exclusive signing window, an...
PWHL Unveils Expansion Draft Rules - The Hockey News
May 19, 2025 · Each of the PWHL's six teams will relinquish four players to the new PWHL expansion teams slated to launch in Seattle and Vancouver net season. Here's a look at the …
PWHL announces key dates, plans for 2025 expansion process
May 19, 2025 · On Monday, the PWHL outlined some key dates, rules and procedures for how the 2025 signing period and expansion draft will take place as new franchises in Seattle and Vancouver get set to...
PWHL expansion draft: Rules, format and key details for
May 19, 2025 · On Monday, the league announced it will hold the 2025 expansion draft on June 9, followed by the PWHL draft on June 24. Here is a breakdown of the rules and format, which include key details...