Mike Ganter

Toronto

Covering T.O. sports teams for the Sun focusing on PWHL_Toronto. If only Chesterville had sports teams of note, I'd be covering them too. [email protected]

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More losses for PWHL's Toronto Sceptres, but a few key retentions too

1 week ago | torontosun.com | Mike Ganter

But it wasn’t an all together bad day for the local side. Before the day was out, news would start to filter that they also had lost Hayley Scamurra, who had been obtained mid-season from Ottawa in the Jocelyne Larocque trade. Scamurra was signed away by the Montreal Victoire, but the day and days ahead could have been so much worse. And that’s where we get to the re-signings of some of Toronto’s other key veterans.
More losses for PWHL's Toronto Sceptres, but a few key retentions too

1 week ago | tj.news | Mike Ganter

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1 • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentAs all six members of the PWHL’s original clubs deal with the losses that have had to suffer to welcome in two new teams at (or some would argue better) than league levels, Monday provided the Toronto Sceptres its first real chance to add to its roster. Advertisement 2Don't have an account?
The work is just beginning for the Toronto Sceptres

2 weeks ago | nipawinjournal.com | Mike Ganter

Any advantage the Toronto Sceptres enjoyed in having just one of its established veterans taken in the expansion draft is going to be a short-lived one. All six existing clubs gave up four players in the expansion draft process that stocked each of PWHL Vancouver and PWHL Seattle with their first 12 players.
The work is just beginning for the Toronto Sceptres

2 weeks ago | torontosun.com | Mike Ganter

Toronto lost one of its first building blocks in the process with Sarah Nurse signing with Vancouver during the exclusive signing window both expansion clubs had in the five days priors to the actual draft. But on draft night all three of the Sceptres names called were coming off their rookie seasons. Julia Gosling, Izzy Daniel and defender Megan Carter were Toronto’s first, second, and third round picks a year ago at the entry draft.
PWHL expansion takes a huge bite out of Sceptres' collection of young talent

2 weeks ago | torontosun.com | Mike Ganter

Joining PWHL Seattle as the seventh pick in the expansion draft was last year’s first-round pick, Julia Gosling. And while Toronto fans were still lamenting the loss of Gosling, a player who grew slowly for the Sceptres but was a key member of the team’s power play by season’s end, the very next pick by PWHL Vancouver also came from the Sceptres draft list of 2024 and that was Patty Kazmaier winner Izzy Daniel, the team’s third-round pick.
Losing Sarah Nurse hurt the Toronto Sceptres, but the hurting is far from over

2 weeks ago | torontosun.com | Mike Ganter

But tonight, the Sceptres will lose three more players with the ability to add just one more to its protection loss after the next member of its roster is taken. Toronto’s primary issue has to be goaltending. In Kristen (Soupy) Campbell, they have a goalie who can be lights out for long stretches of time and won the league’s goaltender of the year in Season 1, but has shown a penchant — three stretches over the first two seasons — in which her game falls apart.
Losing Sarah Nurse hurt the Toronto Sceptres, but the hurting is far from over

2 weeks ago | tj.news | Mike Ganter

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1 • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentAs tough as that first week of the PWHL expansion process was here in Toronto, it’s tonight’s expansion draft that is really going to determine the Toronto Sceptres’ future. Advertisement 2Don't have an account?
Some tough times for some big names in growing PWHL

2 weeks ago | torontosun.com | Mike Ganter

And kudos to the women — the likes of Hilary Knight, Sarah Nurse, Alex Carpenter and Emerance Maschmeyer to name just four — who handled this all with so much grace. It can’t have been easy for hockey players who all their lives have been told they are at the very elite level of their sport, to suddenly hear from the general managers of the teams they helped form that there were three other players they would rather protect going forward.
New PWHL teams waste little time loading up on league talent

3 weeks ago | torontosun.com | Mike Ganter

Locally, the biggest impact was the Toronto Sceptres losing Sarah Nurse to Vancouver, which got the day’s proceedings off in lightning fashion striking first to get Minnesota defenders Sophie Jaques and Claire Thompson on its roster. The latter two are both Toronto natives while Nurse is technically a Hamiltonian — though Toronto has been claiming her for a little while now. The loss of Nurse is a big blow to the Sceptres.
New PWHL teams waste little time loading up on league talent

3 weeks ago | tj.news | Mike Ganter

Expansion process takes big bite out of Toronto Sceptres lineup with Sarah Nurse off to Vancouver • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentTurns out that five-day exclusive signing period for the two expansion PWHL teams may have been a few days too long. Advertisement 2Don't have an account? Create AccountArticle contentBoth newcomers to the PWHL jumped into the process head first Wednesday with some franchise-altering signings.