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PWHL Draft Recap: Torrent add goalscoring and controversy to their roster
The PWHL Draft concluded yesterday, with a bunch of depleted lineups changing hopefully for the better with the additions of fresh new talent from all across the globe. 2nd Overall Pick: Abbey Murphy – F Hometown: Evergreen Park, Illinois Dimensions: 5’5 Position: Forward Previous Team: University of Minnesota Draft Year Stats: NCAA Stats: 66 points (40 goals, 26 assists) in 31 games International Stats: 7 points (2 goals, 5 assists) in 7 games Oh boy. Off to a roaring start with this one. In any other year, this would be a slam dunk positive for the Torrent; Murphy was hailed throughout the last couple of years as the next big thing; an absolute scoring juggernaut at the college level that was pretty obviously the best player in the world not currently playing in the top women’s league. Her comparable pros are her teammates at the Olympics. Given how much of the Torrent’s roster got ransacked in the aggressive push for expansion, this kind of player would be exactly what the doctor ordered; a score-from-anywhere, ferocious, hard-headed fighter of a forward who can turn any shift exciting. This is the easiest pick any team could make in their position. Sure, she’s a bit of a firecracker on the ice, but that’s the kind of player that fans will come to love very quickly when it’s not happening to their team. …And then she decided to do the worst possible thing anyone can do; go on social media, and let her Opinions Be Known. Namely being apparently a fan of our current President, in spite of All Of That, and actively defending the US mens’ team that hit a land speed record in sewering goodwill that had built up over the course of the tournament. And I’m sure you’re saying “So what? An Athlete in a rich sport that’s a conservative? Who on earth cares?”, and it’s not necessarily an unreasonable response. We as sports fans (and especially hockey fans) are sort of used to that. It’s sort of part of becoming one; getting disappointed by bad opinions coming from our sports heroes or them doing something unfathomably dumb. Here’s the thing; the PWHL’s general audience? Does not like that. They are here because the women’s game specifically caters to them and their wants/needs from Sport and they may not have come into this from the perspective of the eternally jaded sports aficionado. There are much longer and much more potent memories in this side of the game than that of the men’s, usually because of learned experience and a clear need to keep a lot of the more unpleasant sides of the sporting world out for fear of that unsavory experience coming back with real personal consequences. To bring her to Seattle of all towns? With their fanbase as it stands? Right after being the Grand Marshals of Seattle Pride? That’s hoping you can let hockey’s insular culture cushion her from backlash. That’s trying to Hockey Man your way out of this. I don’t think you can hockey man your way out of this. Let me say this: I’m sure she’ll be decent in this league. She’s going to make a lot of enemies with her style of play, and I’m sure she’s aware of it, and actively welcomes it. But I hope she’s ready, because while she will have friends in this city…she’s gonna have a much more lukewarm response than I think she’s ready for. Welcome to the Torrent. Hope you’re braced for impact. 14th Overall: Sydney Morrow – D Hometown: Darien, Connecticut Dimensions: 5’7 Position: Defense Previous Team: University of Minnesota Draft Year Stats: 38 points (8 goals, 30 assists) in 39 games This was a great year for defense in the women’s game; Caroline Harvey will unfortunately be a very close and noteworthy problem for the Torrent, but much of the draft’s first two rounds was comprised of blueliners that will help shore up the next wave of teams. Morrow, was one such player. Morrow found her game in her sophomore season in the NCAA, going from about 8 points in 33 games at Ohio State to over a point per game after transferring to Colgate University, and getting to show some real impressive work with the Golden Gophers once she ended up there; putting up 30 points in 42 games and 38 points in 39 games this year. Morrow’s pedigree is exactly the kind of thing a scout wants to see; Shattuck St. Mary’s; the prep school that seemingly engineers hockey players above all else, from a hockey family, solid work in her brief time as a member of the USA U-18 team, and of course her quick rise into being a major contributor at the college hockey level on the back-end; not an easy feat in the women’s hockey game. Welcome to the Torrent, Sydney! 26th Overall: Emerson Jarvis – F Hometown: Mundare, Alberta Dimensions: 5’4 Position: Forward Previous Team: Quinnipiac University Draft Year Stats: 38 points (17 goals, 21 assists) in 41 games Jarvis comes to us from the ECAC; a conference which this year was a three-headed monster comprised of Yale, Princeton, and my grandfather’s alma mater; Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac ended up 7th in the women’s college hockey poll to end the season, and Jarvis was a big part of that success; ending up 2nd on the team in scoring. Jarvis’ main calling card is her speed; which will avail her well on a team that seems to be going all in on relentless skating. And again, a much needed addition to the team given how depleted they are. A forechecking waterbug of a forward is exactly what the doctor ordered for this team that needs to generate excitement now that the roster is almost totally unfamiliar. Welcome to the Torrent, Emerson! 38th Overall: Grace Elliott – F Hometown: Cloverdale, British Columbia Dimensions: 6’2 Position: Forward Previous Team: University of British Columbia Draft Year Stats: 37 points (24 goals, 13 assists) in 28 games They apparently grow them big out in coastal BC, because good gravy; 6’2? Elliott comes from the USports system; Canada’s version of the NCAA. Her team; the Thunderbirds, had a phenominal season out in the Canadian West; winning all but two of their games against an admittedly small and fairly weak division. But! You have to play the games you are presented with, and UBC finished their year with a 5th place finish in the entirety of USports; beating Ottawa and Waterloo, and might’ve been able to get away with a 4th or even 3rd place finish had Montreal not beaten them in OT. Grace Elliott was far and away the straw stirring the drink for UBC: being their leading scorer by a preposterous 15 goal margin, tied for 2nd-most assists with 13, and by far UBC’s best women’s hockey player. No, I’m not kidding. She leads the all-time list for the school. She also had the most penalty minutes at 44, but I can only imagine it is because doing even basic plays with a stick at her height meant she was prone to just catching players while standing upright. With that in mind, she is extremely used to taking control of just about any and all shifts she finds herself in using her stick skill and of course, her size to her advantage. Her skating isn’t up to the comical level of speed as her cohorts, but I imagine her place in this lineup is getting to the dirty areas and actually daring the smaller players around her to move her while she takes care of business in tight with decent passing skill and shooting. She is a project, but one you could mold into a truly special player if given time and space to develop. Welcome to the Torrent, Grace! 50th overall: Grace Gilkyson – D Hometown: Calgary, Alberta Dimensions: 5’7 Position: Defense Previous Team: Yale University Draft Year Stats: 27 points (9 goals, 18 assists) in 36 games. Welcome back to the ECAC! I hope you enjoyed your quick jaunt to Canada, it’s back to getting Very Connecticut up in here. Your New-Haven Style pizza is already in the oven. Do not resist. Gilkyson comes from the Yale Bulldogs, and made a name for herself as a strong puckmover and dangerous third-fourth opportunity shooter for their squad; being second on the team in goalscoring among defenders with 9 goals. She and the Bulldogs enjoyed a tremendously strong campaign in 2025-26, finishing the year 26-10-0 and having a great showing in the ECAC tournament…before running into Emerson Jarvis and the Quinnipiac Bobcats. Won’t make that mistake again! Another player for whom good skating and mobility is a theme. I sense the Torrent want to build themselves in a specific image. Either way, welcome to the Torrent, Grace! 62nd Overall: Gabriella Durante – G Hometown: Calgary, Alberta Dimensions: 5’11 Position: Goalie Previous Team: Real Torino Draft Year Stats: 27 points (9 goals, 18 assists) in 36 games. EEEEEY OOOOOOH WE GOTTA EYE-TALIAN GOALIE OVER HERE Durante grew up in Canada but moved to Italy in order to become an Italian National Teamer in time to play for the Winter Olympics. Italy was shockingly solid at the Milan Olympics, and was one of the few goalies to try and actually test Team USA in any capacity during their meeting. Italy still lost, of course, but she absolutely played like she wanted to be in the history books; finishing with a .908 SV% in tournament play and a 1-3-0 record. She also played in the Division 1A World Championships for Italy, with a .911 SV% and a 3-2-0 record, where the team won Bronze. Meanwhile her club team; Real Torino, which has the most comical case of stolen logo I’ve seen in a good long while and has the unmitigated gall to try and explain it to their audience, benefited from her play quite a bit; finishing with a .947 SV% through 4 games with a 3-1-0 record. Given that Torino plays in a very small league in Europe with only six squads and 14 games between them before the playoffs, that’s not a bad record at all! It does however highlight that she will be coming in on the strength of her international play, which I think will translate beautifully if her work against the USA is any indication. Welcome to the Torrent, Gabriella! And there you have it! Where the Torrent got their roster absolutely sand-blasted by expansion, they seem to have re-thought their team in the simple maxim of Speed Kills. Skating speed, skating mobility, skating explosiveness, these outside of maybe one player is a major theme in their game. Will this translate? I think there’s a good chance it does, especially if their new coach Christine Bumstead is willing to embrace that identity and let the players go wild. On the other hand, you are now going to have to get ready for a lot of fan backlash regarding miss Murphy. That’s probably something the team and the league in general isn’t super-prepared for if the continued Britta-Curl booing is any indication. Only so much of that you can ignore before it becomes a longer term issue. In general it feels like a draft with a clear purpose, and obvious upgrades towards that purpose…but a real question of whether or not the team has it’s hand on the pulse of what’s going on around it. We’ll see what the rest of their offseason looks like, because there’s still plenty to be done, even if they’ve managed to lock down Mikayla Grant-Metis, Emily Brown, Aneta Tejralová, and Theresa Schafzahl. We’ll keep you updated on how that goes as the offseason moves on!