The Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League has employed Meghan Turner as normal supervisor for its latest franchise in Seattle, the league introduced on Wednesday afternoon.
Turner spent the final two seasons as assistant normal supervisor of the Boston Fleet, working alongside GM Danielle Marmer. The choice comes practically three weeks after the PWHL announced it could develop to Seattle for the 2025-26 season.
The workforce, which is able to go by PWHL Seattle till an official title is unveiled, will play at Local weather Pledge Enviornment, residence of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, and practice on the Kraken Group Iceplex.
“I’m so honored to step into this position and have the chance to construct a PWHL workforce in Seattle,” Turner stated in a press launch. “From the joy that we skilled on the Takeover Tour this previous season to the established girls’s sports activities tradition and the shut relationship with the Kraken, I’m assured that we’re getting into an surroundings that’s greater than prepared for ladies’s hockey.”
Turner, who grew up in Bedford, N.H., performed 4 years of faculty hockey at Quinnipiac College, alongside Marmer, and performed within the now-defunct Canadian Ladies’s Hockey League and the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey Gamers Affiliation. Based on the league’s launch, Turner labored in consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers and has ongoing service within the Military Nationwide Guard.
“Meghan brings a rare mixture of hockey expertise, strategic imaginative and prescient, and professionalism to PWHL Seattle,” stated Jayna Hefford, the PWHL’s govt vice chairman of hockey operations. “Throughout her time in Boston, Meghan distinguished herself as a big-picture thinker who shortly earned the respect of gamers and workers alike. She’s the perfect particular person to steer this thrilling new chapter in Seattle.”
In her new position, Turner will construct Seattle’s first-ever roster beginning in earnest on June 4, when the five-day unique signing window opens for growth groups to signal free brokers or gamers who’ve been left unprotected by their present groups.
Every of the PWHL’s six present groups will submit a listing of as much as three gamers protected against choice through the signing window and the growth draft. These preliminary lists are due June 3 at midday ET. As soon as groups lose two gamers, they are going to be permitted to guard one extra participant, rising their protected listing to 4.
The growth draft will likely be held on June 9.
On the draft, Seattle and Vancouver, which can also be set to affix the league in 2025-26, will every choose at the least seven gamers till each groups have reached a 12-player roster. If one workforce enters the growth draft with fewer signed gamers from the signing window, it is going to be granted extra picks to achieve 12. The order during which groups make their picks will likely be decided later.
“The expertise on this league is unmatched, and I’m excited for the chance to construct a workforce and a corporation that displays the fervour of town and the excellence of the league,” Turner stated. “We’ve acquired loads of work to do and I’m able to get began.”
(Picture of Meghan Turner collaborating within the Secret Dream Hole Tour in March 2022: AP Picture / Nick Wass)
