The PWHL won’t drop the puck on the 2026-27 season until late November after the Women’s World Championship wraps up in Denmark, but the goaltender carousel is already spinning. With the league expanding to 12 teams this year, the crease situation has never been more wide open. 

There are more roster spots to fill than at any point in PWHL history, and teams will be trying to get their depth sorted well before the November rush.

Eight goaltenders have already confirmed they’ve accepted training camp invitations. That list runs from an Olympian who spent three seasons waiting for her chance in Montreal, to a Harvard-trained stopper making her second run at a roster spot, to a brand-new college grad who somehow found herself signing a 10-day contract in the middle of her very first pro offseason.

This is PDub Hockey’s ranking of where each of them stands heading into camp.

1. Sandra Abstreiter

Age: 27 | Nationality: German | Last team: Montréal Victoire (PWHL)

Sandra Abstreiter is probably the most accomplished name on this list.

She spent the PWHL’s first season with Ottawa, appearing in three games and starting one, a 43-save shootout loss that showed she could handle real work. Year two in Montreal she was buried behind Ann-Renée Desbiens and Elaine Chuli and barely played. Then in the 2025-26 season, the one that ended with a Walter Cup, she finally got a run of five starts, a 3-2-0 record, a 2.62 GAA, a .905 save percentage, and one shutout. She also picked up an assist in a 39-save shutout win over Ottawa in April becoming the first Victoire goaltender ever to record one.

On the international side, she won the Directorate Award for Best Goaltender at the 2024 Women’s World Championship, which is definitely not a minor thing. At the 2026 Olympics in Milan, she represented Germany in five games, her country’s first Olympic appearance since 2014, which they had to qualify for.

Now Montréal has moved on, signing Megan Warrener and drafting Hailey MacLeod. Abstreiter is a free agent and by all accounts has already been offered a camp spot somewhere, though which team hasn’t been made public yet. At 27, with three PWHL seasons of experience and an Olympic resume, she should not be in this conversation much longer. She’s going to get a legitimate job on a roster this fall.

2. Kaitlyn Ross

Age: 25 | Nationality: Canadian | Last team: Ottawa Charge (PWHL, 10-day contract)

Kaitlyn Ross keeps showing up in the right places. She’s the most active name in this group over the last year.

Ross finished her career at Mount Royal University as arguably the best goaltender in program history. Over 108 career games she went 70-something wins deep, posted a .945 save percentage and a 1.42 GAA in her final season and backstopped the Cougars to the 2023 U SPORTS National Championship, the first in school history, and won Tournament MVP. She also won a silver medal with Canada at the 2025 Winter World University Games.

Last fall, Boston invited her to their 2025-26 training camp. She made the camp but didn’t crack the final roster. In March 2026, Ottawa signed her to a 10-day Standard Player Agreement when Sanni Ahola needed rest, and she traveled with the team through their road trip to Vancouver, Minnesota and Winnipeg. She didn’t play in a regular season game during that stretch, but she was in a professional environment, on the road, and clearly enough in the mix to get the call.

One more thing: Ross is a member of Canada’s national baseball team. She chose hockey. She’s still only 25 and is one of the more pro-ready names on this entire invite list.

3. Lucy Morgan

Age: 24 | Nationality: American | Last team: Ottawa Charge (PWHL, reserve)

Lucy Morgan was a walk-on at St. Lawrence University. She earned the starting job as a freshman and ended up posting a .928 save percentage over four years with 13 shutouts. She then used her fifth year at Minnesota, went 15-3-0 with a .931 save percentage under heavier competition, and that was enough to get signed to the Frost’s Reserve Player list for the 2024-25 season.

Minnesota activated her on a 10-day SPA in January 2025 when Maddie Rooney was sick. She made 29 saves in her PWHL debut against New York in a 5-0 loss. Tough game, but she played it. Ottawa then signed her in March 2025 when Emerance Maschmeyer went down with an injury. She didn’t get another start with the Charge, but she had played at the PWHL level, had been in two different professional camps and had clearly made enough of an impression to keep getting calls.

4. Logan Angers

Age: 26 | Nationality: Canadian | Last team: Ottawa Charge (PWHL)

Logan Angers is the most experienced PWHL player on this list in terms of time with a roster, even though she hasn’t played a regular season game in the league.

She spent the 2025-26 season with Ottawa as the backup to Gwyneth Philips after Emerance Maschmeyer went down with an injury in March. She was on the active roster for the stretch run and the playoffs including Ottawa’s run to the Walter Cup Finals, but she never dressed. Before that, she spent the 2024-25 season as Ottawa’s third goaltender in a similar role.

At Quinnipiac, she played 99 games with a 1.79 GAA and a .929 save percentage and played on the softball team as a first baseman, which she has said helped her read plays and use her hands. She’s 6-foot, organized in her crease, and has a calm presence that her coaches in Ottawa consistently mentioned when re-signing her.

5. Michelle Pasiechynk

Age: 24 | Nationality: Canadian | Last team: Boston University (NCAA)

Michelle Pasiechynk is a name that’s been on PWHL radar for a while now, and this is probably her clearest shot at making a roster.

Pasiechynk won NCAA Goaltender of the Year and ECAC Goaltender of the Year in 2023-24 with Clarkson, where she helped the Golden Knights reach the Frozen Four. She then took the entire 2024-25 season off before returning as a graduate transfer at Boston University, where she split duties with junior Mari Pietersen on a team that struggled. She finished 5-11-0 in 17 games with a 2.52 GAA and a .919 save percentage.

She’s a 5-foot-9 mobile goaltender who moves fast post-to-post and uses her stick well to disrupt plays. The occasional overcommitment is the thing to watch, but the pedigree is real, and the save percentage held up reasonably well even in a rough situation at BU.

With four new teams needing goaltenders, a former NCAA Goaltender of the Year with 5-foot-9 and legitimate ECAC chops should be able to find work. This camp invite could turn into a real contract.

6. Hope Walinski

Age: 23 | Nationality: American | Last team: Providence College (NCAA)

Hope Walinski just wrapped up a graduate season at Providence where she played every single game, all 35 of them, which tied the program single-season record for games played by a goaltender. She finished with 959 saves, the most in a single season in Providence history.

The season record was impressive in one sense and complicated in another. Her final numbers were 11-22-2 with a 2.74 GAA and a .912 save percentage. That’s a lot of saves because Providence gave up a lot of shots. But the volume she handled is notable, and she had individual moments throughout the year that stood out including a 43-save game against Northeastern in October, plus a 35-save overtime win over Boston College in February when she earned Hockey East Goaltender of the Week honors.

She was the team captain for that 2025-26 season. At 23 with a full five-year college career behind her, she’s ready for a pro environment.

7. Abigail Hornung

Age: 23 | Nationality: American | Last team: Holy Cross (NCAA)

Abigail Hornung finished out her senior season at Holy Cross as the program’s all-time leader for the Hockey East era in wins (19), save percentage (.936), goals-against average (1.92), and shutouts (five). She was named a Hockey East Third Team All-Star in 2025-26 and was one of 12 semifinalists for the national Goalie of the Year Award by the Hockey Commissioners Association.

Holy Cross is not a hockey powerhouse, which means two things: Hornung was consistently tested without much of a safety net in front of her and the competition she faced game-to-game was less stiff than what the Power Five goaltenders dealt with. Both things are true at once. The save percentage holding above .930 across a full career while playing for a mid-major program is still something.

At 5-foot-9, she’s a standard-size PWHL crease candidate. She was also a Hockey East All-Academic Team selection every year of her career, which speaks to her approach. She’s a long shot to crack a final roster in her first camp but in a year where 12 new goaltenders are needed, being a long shot doesn’t mean what it used to.

8. Lindsay Reed

Age: 26 | Nationality: American | Last team: Harvard University (NCAA, 2021-22) *

Lindsay Reed is the name on this list with the longest gap between college and this camp invite. At Harvard, she was legitimately elite. Her freshman season in 2018-19 set a program single-season saves record (927) and she finished third nationally in save percentage at .940. She made the ECAC All-Rookie Team, the All-Ivy First Team, and won the Bertagna Award as the top goaltender at the Beanpot Tournament, and she did it as a freshman. Reed carried that form for four seasons, finishing her college career with a reputation as one of the better ECAC goaltenders of her generation. She was also a two-time USA Hockey Women’s U18 Select Team member and an Under-18 World Championship gold medalist back in 2017.

Her last confirmed collegiate season was 2021-22 at Harvard. There is no publicly verified professional playing record between then and this camp invite, which is a notable four-year gap. The invite itself is confirmed by a The Hockey News report from July 25 but the situation behind it is just less clear than the others on this list. If she’s sharp, the raw tools that made her a standout freshman in 2018 are still relevant. But it would be unfair to rank her any higher without more information.