With the puck dropping on New York’s season in 24 hours, the Sirens have officially dropped their opening night roster. The roster features 13 forwards, seven defenders, three goaltenders, and one reserve player. Here’s a breakdown of this year’s squad’s fresh faces and returning players.
The one positive aspect of the Sirens’ disappointing first season was their draft placement, particularly their landing the first overall pick. The 2024-25 roster features eight new players, all of whom are playing in their first seasons.
Rookies
Forwards
Emmy Fecteau: Selected 31st overall, attended Concordia University, served as team’s captain in the 2023-24 season, led team to two national championships and three RESQ medals, registered 89 career points for the Stingers, considered the top-ranked French player in the 2024 draft class.
Sarah Fillier: Selected 1st overall, attended Princeton University, served as team’s captain from 2022-2024, three-time all-American winner, three-time first team all ECAC member, part of Canada’s gold medal-winning team in 2022 Olympics, as a Tiger registered 93 goals, 6th in Princeton history, 101 assists, 2nd in Princeton history, good for 194 points, 4th in Princeton history.
Elle Hartje: Selected 25th overall, attended Yale University, served as team’s captain in 2023-24 season, 2024 Sarah Devens Award recipient, represented Team USA at the USA Hockey National Festival, two-time first team all ECAC member, broke Yale season record for assists in a season with 35, registered 116 assists and 168 points during her career with the bulldogs.
Gabby Rosenthal: Selected 19th overall, attended Ohio State University, served as an alternate captain from 2021-2023, led team to a national championship in 2022, led team to first WCHA regular season title in 2023, member of Team USA for the 2022 rivalry series, registered 108 points as a Buckeye.
Noora Tulus: Selected 13th overall, played in the SDHL for the past 9 years for Luleå HF, won seven league titles, in the 2023-24 campaign led the SDHL in goals with 21, scored 66 points in 36 games, member of Team Finland playing in two Olympic games and eight IHF Women’s World Championships.
Defenders
Maja Nylén Persson: Selected 10th overall, played in the SDHL for the past 8 years, served as Brynäs’ captain in the 2023-24 season, registered 38 points in 36 games in the 2023-24 campaign, has been named SDHL defender of the year the past three seasons, has been a member of Team Sweden, playing in two Olympic games and five IHF Women’s World Championships, and was named Top 3 player for Sweden in the most recent tournament.
Allyson Simpson: Selected 16th overall, attended Colgate University, served as an alternate captain from 2022-2024, was third-team All-ECAC in 2023, won two gold medals with Team USA’s U18 squad, registered 77 assists and 107 points as a raider.
Goaltenders
Kayle Osborne: Selected 28th overall, attended Colgate University, member of the gold medal-winning U18 Team Ontario, silver medalist at 2020 U18 IHF Championships, named ECAC 2024 Tournament MVP, posted a save percentage of .927 and goals against of 1.40 during her time at Colgate.
One of New York’s biggest issues last season was gelling together as a single unit. It was an understandable issue in the league’s inaugural year and a head coaching change mid-season. Going into the 2024-25 season, New York returns 14 players from last year’s squad.
Returners
Forwards
Chloé Aurard: Played in 21 games and registered seven assists and eight points.
Alex Carpenter: Played in all 24 games and led the team in goals, assists, points, and power-play points with 8, 15, 23, and 10, respectively.
Jade Downie-Landry: Played in all 24 games, led the team in goals with eight and registered 13 points.
Élizabeth Giguère: Played in all 24 games, registered three goals and four points.
Paetyn Levis: Played in 23 games and registered three assists.
Abby Roque: Played in all 24 games, registered seven assists and 13 points.
Jill Saulnier: Played in 18 games and registered two points.
Defenders
Taylor Baker: Played in 22 games, did not register a point.
Jamie Bourbonnais: Played in all 24 games, registered eight assists and 13 points.
Brooke Hobson: Played in all 24 games, registered four assists and five points.
Ella Shelton: Played in all 24 games, registered 14 assists and 21 points, and led the team in power-play assists with 8.
Micah Zandee-Hart: Played in 19 games and registered three assists.
Goaltenders
Abbey Levy: Played in eight games, save percentage of .906, goals against of 3.07, 1-5-2 overall.
Corinne Schroeder: Played in 15 games, save percentage of .930, goals against of 2.40, 7-7-0 overall with one shutout.
Reserve Players
(Reserve players in the PWHL serve as contracted players who are ready to play in case of a main roster injury)
Kayla Vespa: Played in 23 games and registered two goals and three points.
New York officially gets the season underway when they face the Minnesota Frost on Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. A promising squad for what the Sirens hope is a turnaround 2024-25 campaign.
