Overview
- On Oct. 16 all eight teams released expanded camp lists, typically 28–32 players, with camps set to open in early November and rosters capped at 23 for opening night.
- Expansion entrants Seattle and Vancouver named inaugural rosters and will face each other on Nov. 21 to launch the season.
- Offseason movement is reshaping depth charts, with Hilary Knight signing in Seattle while Toronto replaces Sarah Nurse and Hannah Miller and Ottawa adjusts after losing Tereza Vanišová, Ashton Bell and Emerance Maschmeyer to Vancouver.
- Several 2025 draft picks were invited but remain unsigned, including New York’s Casey O’Brien, Makenna Webster and Maddi Wheeler, Seattle’s Lily Delianedis, Jada Habisch and Olivia Wallin, and most of Vancouver’s class apart from Michelle Karvinen.
- Boston announced a 32-player camp, confirmed new two-year deals for Megan Keller, Alina Müller and Aerin Frankel, and set preseason scrimmages at Montréal’s Verdun Auditorium on Nov. 15 and 17.