The city of Vancouver is one step closer to watching their Professional Women’s Hockey League team take to the ice at the Pacific Coliseum. Within the first two days of the Exclusive Signing Window for the two new PWHL expansion teams,

Boston captain Hilary Knight is heading to the PWHL's expansion team in Seattle, while Vancouver landed the two-time defending champion Minnesota Frost's blue-line duo of Claire Thompson and Sophie Jaques to start the league's expansion signing period.

Knight, a women's hockey legend, is not on the Boston Fleet's list of protected players, exposing her to the PWHL expansion process.