Goldeneyes searching for groove in 1st PWHL season: 'We're growing, we're evolving'

Ten games into their inaugural season, the Vancouver Goldeneyes are still striving to find their groove.

A come-from-behind 4-3 victory over the league-leading Boston Fleet last weekend could provide the expansion club with a little momentum as it continues to push through the Professional Women's Hockey League season.

"I think we've had a lot of character wins and character moments here," said Goldeneyes captain Ashton Bell. "We've been through a lot already as a group early on, but I think that's just going to benefit us down the road."

Midway through the campaign, Vancouver sits second-last in the eight-team league, with two regulation wins, an overtime win, an overtime loss and five regulations losses.

The team boasts the PWHL's worst goal differential (-8), with the second-fewest goals for (19) and the second-most goals against (27).

"I think the hardest thing to do in hockey, for sure, is to score," said forward Hannah Miller, who has one goal and four assists on the season. "And I think, as a new team, new players, it's just kind of finding that chemistry, giving things a chance and some time."

As the league's first two expansion teams, Vancouver and the Seattle Torrent are the unique position of bringing together entirely new rosters for the 2025-26 campaign.

Both teams have players that played together in other markets, but both are still working out the kinks that come with a whole raft of new personnel.

"We're very talented players," said Michelle Karvinen, a 35-year-old Finnish forward playing her first season in the PWHL following a long career in Europe.

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