Healthy Again, Hype Is Beginning To Grow Around Sarah Paul

Heading into the NCAA, many had high hopes for Sarah Paul. She was a former Canadian U-18 national team standout, and she'd become known for her deceptive hands, and wicked shot.

After recording five points in her first seven games of the season, Paul wouldn't make it to game eight suffering an on-ice injury that ended her season, and caused her to miss the entire 2022-23 season. 

Returning in 2023-24 however, Paul scored 16 goals and 23 points in 32 games with Princeton in what was her first full collegiate campaign. She was a standout that summer at Canada's national team camp and with their national development team. After scoring 28 goals and 36 point in 31 games in her second full season with Princeton, Paul was verging on a national team call.

But after transferring to the University of Minnesota for her Junior year, and scoring eight points in her first eight games with the WCHA powerhouse, Sarah Paul suffered another season ending injury.

This summer, she missed Canada's national team camp, and missed a game early for Minnesota, but despite those blips, Paul looks like she's back. Paul's release and pinpoint accuracy, as well as her poise with the puck on her stick have been on full display early.

In her first six games of the 2026-27 NCAA women's hockey season with Minnesota, Paul notched four goals and 10 points. It included two goals and four points against #1 Ohio State.

If Paul can maintain her pace and stay in the lineup, she'll quickly climb the 2027 PWHL Draft rankings, and quickly become a name that's discussed more frequently by Hockey Canada.