Carly Jackson trained all summer like she had hockey job, even though she didn't.
The goalie had just signed a one-year, US$60,000 extension with the Toronto Six in June when it was announced that the Premier Hockey League had been bought out to make way for the Professional Women's Hockey League .
"I was preparing for a season and that didn't change, even though it was a bit more unknown to me at that point," Jackson said. The PWHL's training camp rosters are a mixture of the initial 18 free-agency signings, 88 draft picks and 78 camp invites. Seventy-six players in total have been signed to contracts.
Her name wasn't called in the PWHL draft. Grant-Mentis says she received multiple training-camp invitations and chose Ottawa, in part because her childhood friend Daryl Watts was drafted and signed by the club. Training camp rosters are a mishmash of former Professional Women's Hockey Players' Association members — including several national-team players from Canada and the United States — former PHF players and some college and university grads.
"Nothing's guaranteed. Not a lot of us have contracts," Poznikoff said."So you're kind of going and hoping for the best and if you make it, you're like, 'OK, well I'm here now.'The first two games of the Rivalry Series between Canada and the United States featured 36 players currently on PWHL rosters.
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