Boston Fleet captain Hilary Knight is heading to the PWHL’s expansion team in Seattle, while Vancouver landed the two-time defending champion Minnesota Frost’s blue-line duo of Claire Thompson and Sophie Jaques to start the league’s expansion signing period Wednesday.

Knight, one of the league’s three MVP finalists, agreed to a one-year contract in becoming Seattle’s first player. The agreement moves Knight closer to her offseason home in Idaho, and provides the team an immediate high-profile presence in a city that already features NWSL and WNBA franchises.

She leaves Boston following a season in which she had 29 points (15 goals, 14 assists) to tie for the league lead with New York rookie Sarah Fillier. And it comes as Knight, who turns 36 in July, is winding down her international car

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