A Tale of Two Expansion Teams Part II: The Goalies
The "A Tale of Two Expansion Teams" series continues with part two, featuring the three goalies each team has signed and has attending training camp. Who have they decided will tend the goal and why did they choose these goalies?
I can see the comments now and I hear you, Vancouver and Seattle were able to just take some talented goalies then slapped them onto their rosters. I get it. What more could you possible talk about? Just have good goalies as it’s easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Unfortunately for you, you’ve come across a total nerd, so grab a snack as we decipher the thinking that went into creating each team’s goalie depth chart.
In bigger pro hockey leagues, such as the NHL, teams sometimes need to get creative in finding solutions when it comes to building out their goalie depth chart. For the PWHL, with eight teams now, teams don’t have to get super creative in how they build out their goalie depth chart. They don’t need to make do with what is available. PWHL teams have options and can build their goalie depth chart how they see fit. Vancouver and Seattle have certainly taken full advantage of the depth of goaltending in women’s hockey and built their goaltending depth charts how they see fit with few restrictions.
