PWHL Milestone Watch: Which PWHL Players Have A Chance To Hit Milestones This Season

The PWHL is entering the league's fourth season in competition. This season the player pool is growing significantly as the league expanded to 12 teams.

While many will be new to the league, a core group of players have now been in the PWHL for four seasons, and those players, and their original six teams, are beginning to reach and pass various statistical milestones. 

Someone is going to be the first PWHL player ever to skate in 100 PWHL games. Currently, Susanna Tapani is the all-time games played leader having played 86 career games. She's played every game over three seasons, plus a pair more that she gained in a trade during the inaugural season. She'll be chased by 13 players who have competed in all 84 games in the PWHL's three seasons. 

With no Marie-Philip Poulin this season, her 38 goals will be passed by a few players this season. It leaves Daryl Watts as the league's active leading goal scorer. With 32 goals, she might be the first to 40 career goals in the league. The only players with more than 30 goals aside from Poulin and Watts are Alex Carpenter (31), Kendall Coyne Schofield (30), and Jessie Eldridge (30). Coyne Schofield’s totals will remain in place as she will miss this season to give birth to her second child.

There's also a chance that more than one player cross 50 career assists this season. Taylor Fox and Alina Muller are tied for the league's all-time assist lead with 40 each. Kelly Pannek is next at 37. 

In terms of overall points, without Poulin, Taylor Fox is the all-time leader heading back to the PWHL this season with 65 points. She's followed by Daryl Watts (63), Alex Carpenter (63), and Kendall Coyne Schofield (63). How high the all-time total will go is still to be seen, but someone in the PWHL will top 70, then 80, and probably 90 points this season. Even a 35 point campaign for Fox to hit 100 points isn't out of question.

Tereza Vanisova is the closest PWHL player to 100 career penalty minutes as well sitting at 85.

In net, Ann-Renee Desbiens is only nine away from 50 career victories. Aerin Frankel is two behind her at 39. Desbiens will likely join Frankel as the only netminders with 10 or more shutouts this season. Frankel already sits at 10, while Desbiens has eight. 

On the team front, Montreal is only team with more than 50 wins all-time sitting at 54. Every win she totals keeps Kori Cheverie in front of the all-time race for coaches. Several teams, including the two-time champion Minnesota Frost will cross the 50 win threshold this season.