With free agency only days away, each PWHL team has needs. Every team in the league has at least 10 players to sign to get to their 23 player roster, plus up to three reserves, ahead of the 2025-26 campaign.

With the expansion draft complete, here are some of the biggest winners and losers (beyond the obvious) of the last week of roster building.

The 12-year-old Garcia-Dudek is a big fan of women’s national team stars like Hilary Knight, who starred for the Boston Fleet of the Professional Women’s Hockey League last season. Pretty soon, Garcia-Dudek — who started playing through the Seattle Kraken’s Learn to Play program — won’t have to look across the country for role models like Knight.

It’s tough to watch a team kind of be dismantled a little bit out of your control,” GM Melissa Caruso said Tuesday. “But at this point we can start to rebuild.”

Danielle Marmer was going to be named the general manager of Boston’s PHWL team, and she wanted Meghan Turner to come with her.

Our brand-new women's pro hockey team is coming together. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm checked in with Seattle Times reporter Kate Shefte for some PWHL hiring updates.

The return of the Seattle Vamps? Women's hockey has a long history in Seattle and could provide inspiration as PWHL Seattle considers a permanent name.

Among those was whether to protect Hilary Knight, the franchise’s inaugural captain, or to focus on the future and protect Alina Müller.