PWHL Final Rosters By The Numbers

Nationalities? PWHPA / PHF / NCAA / Europe? Age? Here's a break down of where the PWHL's players are coming from and more.

Looking at the PWHL's official rosters, here's a break down of where players have come from. For the purposes of these stats, we did not include reserve players.

Players from 12 nations will compete in the PWHL this season. The nation leading the way in the PWHL is Canada representing more than 50% of all players signed. USA comes in next closing in on 40%. The remainder of the league comes from 10 European and Asian nations.

Czechia is the next most prevalent with five players in Denisa Krizova (Minnesota), Tereza Vanisova and Dominika Laskova (Montreal), and Aneta Tejralova and Katerina Mrazova (Ottawa). Other nations represented in the league have no more than two players at the moment. Fanni Garat-Gasparics (Ottawa) and Taylor Baker (New York) are members of Hungary's national team, while recent Chinese national team members Hannah Miller (Toronto) and Leah Lum (Montreal) are also in the league. Similarly, Sweden has two players in the league in Boston's Emma Soderberg and New York's Johanna Fallman. 

The rest of the international representation comes from only single players in Switzerland's Alina Muller and Austria's Theresa Schafzahl in Boston, France's Chloe Aurard in New York, Germany's Sandra Abstreiter and Japan's Akane Shiga in Ottawa, and Finland's Susanna Tapani in Minnesota.

In terms of international representation per team, Ottawa leads the way with six nations, New York and Boston each with five, Minnesota and Montreal with four, and Toronto with three.

Of the players signed to play in the new PWHL, former PHF players led the way numerically.

From the PHF a total of 50 players made rosters, with an additional 18 players who had signed PHF contracts for next season, but did not play in the league inking deals as well. From the PWHPA, a total of 49 players signed in the league. Out of the NCAA came 31 players directly to the league, while six competed in Europe and Asia last season. Two players, Gigi Marvin and Susanna Tapani did not play last season

38 players made full time rosters as training camp invites, while 18 were signed prior to the draft. That leaves 82 players who made final rosters from the 90 players draft. 

From the reserves, two played in Europe last season, one came from USports, four were from the PHF, nine came from the PWHPA and one was an NCAA grad.

The oldest player to make a PWHL roster this season was Boston's Gigi Marvin who is 36-years-old. The youngest player in the league was Ottawa's Akane Shiga who is 22.