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Five\u00a0U.S.\u00a0gold medalists headline\u00a0a list of 23\u00a0draft-eligible players who competed\u00a0at\u00a0the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, including Tournament MVP and Best Defender Caroline Harvey, who also earned the prestigious Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award\u00a0before winning a National Collegiate Championship with the\u00a0University of Wisconsin. She\u00a0enters the draft alongside fellow Badgers Laila Edwards and\u00a0Michigan native\u00a0Kirsten Simms,\u00a0along with\u00a0Penn State\u2019s Tessa Janecke\u00a0and Abbey Murphy from the University of Minnesota.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The list also includes\u00a02026 Olympians from Finland (4), France (1), Germany (5), Italy (3), Japan (1), Sweden (2), and Switzerland (2), including Swiss bronze medalist Andrea Braendli, named Best Goalkeeper in Milan, and top Swedish scorer Thea Johansson. Laura Fortino, who won Olympic gold (2014) and silver (2018) with Canada before\u00a0representing\u00a0Italy in 2026, has also declared for the draft, as has four-time Canadian Olympian and three-time gold medalist Meghan Agosta.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The group of\u00a0235\u00a0<\/strong>players\u00a0features\u00a0129\u00a0forwards<\/strong>,\u00a069 defenders<\/strong>, and\u00a037\u00a0goaltenders<\/strong>, with more than 50% of draft-eligible players from NCAA programs.\u00a0All eligible players officially\u00a0declared for\u00a0the draft by the May 8 deadline.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The 2026 PWHL Draft presented by Upper Deck will take place on Wednesday, June 17 at Fox Theatre, beginning at 5 p.m. ET, and will be open to ticketed fans.\u00a0Tickets for the 2026 PWHL Draft presented by Upper Deck are available to the public\u00a0here, 2026 PWHL DRAFT ELIGIBILITY LIST\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Players are grouped by position and listed alphabetically by last name. The * in the nationality column denotes players who have Senior National Team experience\u00a0representing\u00a0their country in international competition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n DNP = Did not play in\u00a02025-26\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NEW YORK AND TORONTO\u00a0(May\u00a012, 2026) \u2013 The Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League (PWHL) today announced\u00a0that 235 eligible players have declared for the 2026 PWHL Draft presented by Upper Deck,\u00a0representing\u00a0the largest talent pool of prospective players since the inaugural season. The draft will take place on Wednesday, June 17 at 5 p.m. ET at the Fox Theatre … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-PWHL-DRAFT-ELIGIBILITY-LIST-FEATURES-RECORD-NUMBER-OF-PLAYER.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30659,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30657\/revisions\/30659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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