PWHL Announces Showcase Rosters For NHL All-Star Thursday

The PWHL has named 24 players who will participate in NHL All-Star Thursday in a PWHL 3-on-3 Showcase.

The PWHL and NHL announced today the rosters for the Canadian Tire PWHL 3-on-3 Showcase™, taking place during NHL All-Star Thursday™ on Feb. 1 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.

The Canadian Tire PWHL 3-on-3 Showcase will see players from all six Professional Women’s Hockey League teams compete in a 20-minute game. The rosters, each comprised of 12 players (10 skaters and two goaltenders), have won a combined 146 Olympic and 46 World Championship medals as well as 17 NCAA Division I Championships. PWHL Special Advisor Cassie Campbell-Pascall (Team King) and New Jersey Devils Director of Player Development, Meghan Duggan (Team Kloss) will be behind the benches. The two teams have been named in honor of Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss -- PWHL Advisory Board members and long-time advocates of equality for women in sports.

26 Kendall Coyne Schofield, Minnesota (F)
21 Hilary Knight, Boston (F)
11 Alina Müller, Boston (F)
12 Kelly Pannek, Minnesota (F)
29 Marie-Philip Poulin, Montreal (F)
40 Blayre Turnbull, Toronto (F)
15 Savannah Harmon, Ottawa (D)
5 Megan Keller, Boston (D)
17 Ella Shelton, New York (D)
2 Lee Stecklein, Minnesota (D)
35 Ann-Renée Desbiens, Montreal (G)
31 Aerin Frankel, Boston (G)

25 Alex Carpenter, New York (F)
26 Emily Clark, Ottawa (F)
27 Taylor Heise, Minnesota (F)
19 Brianne Jenner, Ottawa (F)
20 Sarah Nurse, Toronto (F)
11 Abby Roque, New York (F)
7 Laura Stacey, Montreal (F)
23 Erin Ambrose, Montreal (D)
14 Renata Fast, Toronto (D)
3 Jocelyne Larocque, Toronto (D)
29 Nicole Hensley, Minnesota (G)
38 Emerance Maschmeyer, Ottawa (G)

The 24 players were selected by the PWHL and include 17 of the 18 inaugural PWHL free-agent signings (New York’s Micah Zandee-Hart is unable to participate due to injury) and seven of the first twelve selections from the first-ever PWHL Draft, including all six first round picks.

Referees Samantha Hiller (Boulder, Colo.) and Elizabeth Mantha (Longueuil, Que.) and linespersons Alexandra Clarke (Weyburn, Sask.) and Kirsten Welsh (Blackstock, Ont.) – officials from the American Hockey League and the PWHL -- will officiate the game.