The Professional Women’s Hockey League is poised to look a lot different in 2025-26.
So is the Boston Fleet.
A league-wide expansion process triggered the original six franchises to evaluate their futures and ultimately upend their rosters to account for the two new teams — the Seattle Torrent and the Vancouver Goldeneyes — to establish a foundation ahead of the third season of the popular league.
Boston’s roster certainly took a sizeable hit, as the Lowell-based club relinquished franchise fixtures Hilary Knight, Hannah Bilka and Sydney Bard, among others, in the expansion proceedings that re-shaped the league’s landscape.
Meanwhile, the Fleet attempted to retool its roster through the draft while adding a new head coach and, most recently, selecting a new leadership group ahead of Bo

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