obviously losing players sucks but tbh the thing I'm finding the most frustrating about this expansion draft is. how do I put this. founding PWHL teams got two full seasons to settle in before expansion. Torrent got on the ice together for the first time in November 2025, had the Olympics borrow many of our key players and send several of them back injured so they couldn't play the rest of the season, and now has to contend with a league expansion twice the size of the previous one that is taking more from Torrent than almost any other team (not to mention the questionable EFO stuff with Knight) while we don't even have a head coach. like yes, we were last in the league this season, and some of the reasons for that were internal, but we're also not being given the same chance to work through our growing pains that every other team except Vancouver got to have (and Vancouver so far has been insulated from the expansion draft, so Torrent is on uneven footing with them, too).
















