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Nicole Hensley lifts the Walter Cup with the Minnesota Frost, beside the names of every goalie at PWHL training camp

Nicole Hensley lifts the Walter Cup with the Minnesota Frost. Photo: Nick Wosika / Icon Sportswire

Two-Time Walter Cup Champion Nicole Hensley Heads the PWHL’s Goalie Moves, Plus Every Camp Invite

All 12 teams named their 2026-27 camp rosters: 46 goaltenders, who moved, who's new to the league and who's chasing a contract.

David Hutchison | | 6 min read
Key Takeaways
  • Nicole Hensley signed with expansion PWHL Las Vegas through 2027-28 after winning consecutive Walter Cups (2024, 2025) with the Minnesota Frost, posting a 1.57 GAA and .928 SV% across her playoff starts.
  • Corinne Schroeder became the first player signed by PWHL San Jose, bringing five career PWHL shutouts — tied for third all-time — to the expansion club.
  • Kayle Osborne joins expansion PWHL Hamilton on a three-year deal after starting 27 of New York's 30 games last season with four shutouts.
  • Elaine Chuli moved from Toronto to the New York Sirens as a free agent, reuniting with a franchise where she won the Isobel Cup with the Toronto Six in 2022-23.
  • All 12 PWHL teams named their training camp rosters Wednesday, totaling 46 goaltenders; camps open November 18 after the Women's World Championship in Denmark, with the regular season starting December 5.

For three seasons, Nicole Hensley only knew the Minnesota Frost. She was the first goalie chosen in the PWHL’s first draft, and she won the Walter Cup with the Frost in 2024 and again in 2025. In June she signed with expansion Las Vegas through 2027-28, and on Wednesday the new team named her one of four goalies on its first training camp roster. (PWHL Las Vegas, camp roster)

Hensley was at her best in those two title runs, winning four of her eight playoff starts with a 1.57 goals-against average and a .928 save percentage. With Olympic gold from 2018 and world championship gold to go with her Walter Cups, she is one of 14 players in the PWHL’s Triple Gold Club, and in Las Vegas she lines up again with two of her Frost teammates, Mae Batherson and Kendall Cooper. (PWHL Las Vegas)

She is one of 46 goaltenders on the camp rosters all 12 PWHL teams named on Wednesday, in a league that has grown by four teams since last season. (PWHL)

Some of those creases are settled. Others are wide open, with expansion signings, free-agent moves, European newcomers, fresh draft picks and goalies with no contract all chasing the same few jobs. Camps open Wednesday, Nov. 18, once the Women’s World Championship in Denmark is over, and the regular season starts Dec. 5. (PWHL)

Below: the goalies who changed teams, the signed goalies who are new to the league, and all 46 on every camp roster, team by team.

On the move

New to the PWHL

Andrea Brändli, PWHL Detroit. Detroit’s first draft pick ever was a goalie: the 29-year-old Swiss, taken 15th overall in June. At the Milano Cortina Olympics she started four games, posted a .953 save percentage and was named best goaltender as Switzerland won bronze. Last season with Frölunda she had the best save percentage in Sweden’s top women’s league (.945), and in college she won the 2022 NCAA title with Ohio State. (PWHL Detroit) She signed for three years. “Andrea’s performance at the Olympics showed the world that she is one of the best at her position,” GM Manon Rhéaume said. Brändli said she was “incredibly excited and grateful to commit to Detroit for the next three years.” (WXYZ Detroit)

Alice Philbert, PWHL Detroit. Philbert grew up in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Que., but she plays for France, and she earned that by playing men’s hockey. After finishing at Concordia in 2023 she moved to Wasquehal, a town on the edge of Lille in northern France, and spent two seasons in goal for its men’s club: first in the fourth tier of French men’s hockey, where she won five of her 11 regular-season games, then a season in the third tier. (Elite Prospects) Those two seasons made her eligible to play for France. She was in goal for France at its first Olympics in 2026 and ranked fourth in save percentage there. In April she won four of five games at the Division I Worlds as France earned promotion to the top division. Last season she led the EWHL with a .936 save percentage for EV Bozen, and back in 2022 she won a U SPORTS title at Concordia. Detroit signed her for two years. (PWHL Detroit)

Daria Gredzen, Minnesota Frost. At 17, Gredzen was the youngest player on Russia’s team at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The 22-year-old from Novosibirsk spent seven seasons with Biryusa Krasnoyarsk, winning the Russian women’s league’s goaltender of the year award in 2024-25 with 26 wins, a 1.89 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage. Minnesota drafted her in the fifth round and signed her for one season. (Minnesota Frost)

Tia Chan, PWHL San Jose. Chan, from Hamilton, Ont., was named 2026 women’s college hockey goalie of the year, the first UConn goalie to win it. Her 57 saves in a double-overtime Hockey East final against Northeastern set a record for that game, and her 41 saves against Princeton gave UConn its first NCAA tournament win. She played for China at the 2022 Olympics. (Hockey Commissioners Association) San Jose made her its first goalie pick, 28th overall, and signed her for three years. (The Hockey News)

Katie DeSa, Vancouver Goldeneyes. DeSa leaves Penn State holding the program’s career records for shutouts (25), winning percentage and goals-against average (1.43). As a senior she went 27-4-0 and helped the Nittany Lions to their first Frozen Four. Vancouver took her in the fourth round and signed her for a year. (Vancouver Goldeneyes)

Grace Campbell, Toronto Sceptres. Campbell captained Boston College as a senior, and her save percentage stayed at .923 or better in all four of her seasons there. Before college, with the USPHL’s Potomac Patriots, she became the first female goalie to win a game in that league. Toronto signed her for one season. (Toronto Sceptres)

Every goalie at camp

Team by team, with each goalie’s 2025-26 team and her contract status as each team listed it. Team names link to the camp roster announcements.

Boston Fleet

Minnesota Frost

Montréal Victoire

New York Sirens

Ottawa Charge

Toronto Sceptres

Seattle Torrent

Vancouver Goldeneyes

PWHL Detroit

PWHL Hamilton

PWHL Las Vegas

  • Nicole Hensley (Minnesota), signed · InGoal Radio Episode 242
  • Logan Angers (last played for Ottawa in 2024-25), unsigned
  • Lauren Bench (Djurgårdens IF), unsigned
  • Saskia Maurer (SC Bern), 2026 pick, unsigned

PWHL San Jose

What to watch

Once camps open, each team plays two preseason scrimmages between Nov. 22 and Nov. 30, which are the last chance for the unsigned goalies to win a contract before the season opens on Dec. 5.

On InGoal: 17 of these goalies have been guests on InGoal Radio; their episodes are linked beside their names above. And test your memory with PWHL Goalie Match.

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