Boston Fleet goaltender Aerin Frankel named PWHL’s most valuable player, top goalie

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Frankel posted a record of 19-4-1-2 and produced a league-leading eight shutouts for Boston in 2025-26. Her goals-against average was 1.17 and her save percentage .953 over 26 regular-season games.

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The Fleet’s Megan Keller was announced as top defender and defender Haley Winn the rookie of the year at a ceremony in Detroit.

Kris Sparre earned the coaching award after navigating Boston to a 16-5-4-5 record in one season there. Sparre has since been hired as expansion Hamilton’s head coach.

Minnesota’s Pannek broke up Boston’s run of top honours by winning the award for best forward. Pannek led the PWHL in goals with 16 and points with 33 in 30 games.

The 30-year-old from Plymouth, Minn., beat out her teammate Taylor Heise and Ottawa captain Brianne Jenner for top forward.

Keller, who scored the overtime goal against Canada in the Olympic women’s hockey final, totalled seven goals and 15 assists and a plus-10 rating over 30 games.

Winn and Vancouver Sophie Jaques were finalists for top defender.

Winn had five goals and 14 assists in 30 games for the Fleet. Montreal defender Nicole Gosling, who will play for Hamilton next season, and New York Sirens forward Casey O’Brien were finalists for the rookie trophy.

Korie Cheverie, who coached Montreal to a Walter Cup championship, and Ottawa’s Carla Macleod were finalists for the coaching award.

Pannek, Heise, Jenner, Keller, Jaques and Frankel were chosen for the PWHL’s first all-star team.

Montreal’s Laura Stacey, Ottawa’s Rebecca Leslie, Minnesota’s Britta Curl-Salemme, Gosling, Winn and Desbiens comprised the second all-star team.

O’Brien, Boston’s Abby Newhook, New York’s Kristyna Kaltounkova, Winn, Gosling and Seattle goalie Hannah Murphy rounded out the all-rookie team.

Award winners were chosen via a weighted model for tabulating votes from a selection committee comprised of media (50 per cent), general managers and head coaches (25 per cent), PWHL broadcasters (15 per cent) and the Players’ Association (10 per cent).

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2026.

The Canadian Press