PHF expansion Montreal signs first seven players for upcoming season
MONTREAL — The Premier Hockey Federation’s latest enlargement group in Montreal has signed its first seven gamers for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
Montreal signed forwards Ann-Sophie Bettez, Kim Deschenes, Jade Downie-Landry, Alexandra Labelle, Sarah Lefort, and Kristina Shanahan.
The group additionally signed defender Brigitte Laganiere.
“It is a very thrilling step ahead for the inspiration of the PHF in Montreal and throughout the province of Quebec,” group president Kevin Raphael mentioned in an announcement.
“This group is a superb mixture of exuberant youth and veteran expertise, gamers with character, and who’ve led their earlier groups to success.”
Bettez is essentially the most skilled determine of the group having competed for the Canadian bronze medal-winning group on the 2019 IIHF ladies’s world championships.
Deschenes is an eight-year skilled, having spent the final three seasons within the PWHPA after 5 years within the now-defunct Canadian Ladies’s Hockey League.
Previous to enjoying the earlier two years within the PWHPA, Labelle competed for the Montreal Carabins, successful a U Sports activities nationwide title and incomes an RSEQ first group all-star nod in 2017-2018.
Following a formidable profession at Boston College, ending as the college’s second all-time main scorer, Lefort joined the CWHL the place she received a Clarkson Cup title alongside Bettez and Deschenes in 2017.
In the meantime, Laganiere, Shanahan, and Downie-Landry will all be getting into their first professional seasons with Montreal.
The 26-year-old Downie-Landry will step into the professional recreation contemporary off successful U Sports activities Participant of the 12 months in her sixth and closing season at McGill College.
Laganiere enters the fold having helped Concordia College to its first U Sports activities championship since 1999, the place she completed fifth within the convention in scoring.
Shanahan just lately accomplished a five-year profession on the College of Vermont. The Montreal native earned Hockey East second group all-star honours in her closing season.
All seven gamers opted to not disclose the phrases of their contracts.
Montreal was introduced to be the league’s latest group on July 12. It is going to be the PHF’s seventh group, and second in Canada after the Toronto Six.
Particulars of the schedule for the upcoming season have but to be introduced.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed July 25, 2022.
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