In a pioneering transfer inside girls’s sports activities, Manon Rheaume, the primary and solely girl to play in a Nationwide Hockey League (NHL) pre-season recreation, has been named normal supervisor of the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League’s (PWHL) new Detroit staff.
Bringing her in depth expertise from 4 profitable seasons in hockey operations with the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, Rheaume will oversee the staff’s entry into the league within the 2026-27 season. She is going to concentrate on constructing a formidable roster and hockey operations employees, in preparation for the league’s draft on June 17, 2026.
A adorned athlete in her personal proper, Rheaume boasts a distinguished profession on the ice, successful gold medals with Canada’s nationwide staff on the girls’s world championships in 1992 and 1994, and a silver medal on the 1998 Olympics. PWHL Detroit was formally unveiled as an growth staff on Might 6, marking an thrilling new chapter for ladies’s hockey.
(With inputs from companies.)