The Montreal PWHL team has signed their first-round draft pick in the 2023 PWHL Draft, defender Erin Ambrose. Ambrose was the sixth overall pick and signed a three-year contract.
Ambrose’s status may still be up in the air after she left Canada’s Rivalry Series game against the United States on Saturday with a lower body injury. She did not return to the game.
She will be expected to quarterback Montreal’s power play, and lead the team’s blue line. The 29-year-old native of Keswick, Ontario will be in her second stint with a Montreal team. She was traded to Les Canadiennes in 2018 and won the CWHL’s defender of the year award in the last year of the league in 2019.
She had eight goals and 30 assists in 32 CWHL games in Montreal. She also had a great NCAA career at Clarkson University and had four goals and five assists in seven games at the 2022 Olympics, where Canada won gold.
She also had seven points in seven games at the most recent World Championship.
She is the fifth Montreal player to be signed to a three-year contract, and seventh player to be signed overall. Each team must have at least six players signed to three-year contracts. Training camps open up this week around the PWHL, and it was announced today that the Centre 21.02 at the Verdun Auditorium will be the team’s home base.
