New York Sirens fill up in 1st spherical of PWHL draft by choosing Kaltounkova 1st and O’Brien third

Minutes after choosing Colgate ahead Kristyna Kaltounkova with the No. 1 choose, Sirens basic supervisor Pascal Daoust accomplished a commerce with the Toronto Sceptres to accumulate the No. 3 choose and select Wisconsin middle Casey O’Brien.

Daoust traded prime defenseman Ella Shelton to accumulate Toronto’s first and fourth-round choose, which was twenty seventh total.

The two forwards fill a serious offensive gap after New York misplaced two of their three main scorers — Alex Carpenter and Jessie Eldridge — in addition to beginning goalie Corinne Schroeder to Seattle within the PWHL growth draft and signing course of earlier this month. Carpenter and Eldridge mixed to attain 20 of the Sirens league-low 71 targets final season.

Kaltounkova and O’Brien be part of a lineup that’s deep at protection and options Sarah Fillier, final 12 months’s No. 1 choose, who completed tied for the PWHL lead with 29 factors.

Kaltounkova is from the Czech Republic and have become the primary European-born participant to go first within the PWHL draft. She is reunited with Sirens coach Greg Fargo, who coached her at Colgate. Kaltounkova leaves the Raiders after 5 seasons as the college’s career-leading scorer with 111 targets and second with 223 factors.

O’Brien was this season’s Patty Kazmaier award winner after main the nation with 88 factors for the NCAA-champion Badgers. In 5 seasons, the 23-year-old completed with 274 profession factors in 182 video games to interrupt the Wisconsin report held by four-time Olympian Hilary Knight.

The Sirens picked first for the second straight 12 months after as soon as once more ending final within the standings.

Two Clarkson defenseman went among the many prime 4 picks with the Boston Fleet selecting Haley Winn at No. 2, and Montreal drafting Nicole Gosling at No. 4.

The Ottawa Charge had been scheduled to select fifth adopted by the two-time defending champion Minnesota Frost. Vancouver received a random draw to have the seventh choose, with Seattle going eighth. The two growth groups will then alternate the order in every successive spherical within the eight-team, six-round draft.

In touchdown Shelton, a PWHL defender of the 12 months finalist in 2024, the Sceptres enhance a protection that already options Renata Fast. Fast and Shelton are teammates on Canada’s nationwide squad and each members of the 2022 gold medal-winning crew on the Beijing Games.

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