MONTRÉAL, QC – The Montréal Victoire introduced on Friday that the membership has signed defender Nicole Gosling, the group’s first choose within the 2025 PWHL Draft, to a three-year Normal Participant Settlement via the 2027-28 Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League (PWHL) season.
Gosling (5′7″) was chosen within the first spherical (4th general) by Montréal after concluding her collegiate profession at Clarkson College the place she was the best defender in Golden Knights historical past, with a complete of 148 factors (44 targets, 104 assists) in 170 video games over 5 seasons. A local of London, ON, the 23-year-old adopted her ECAC Defender of the 12 months title in 2023–24 with one other robust marketing campaign, tallying 39 factors in 40 video games in 2024–25, incomes her a second consecutive choice to the ECAC First All-Star Crew.
She additionally received a gold medal with Crew Canada on the 2024 IIHF Ladies’s World Championship, alongside her cousin Julia Gosling, who accomplished her PWHL rookie season with Toronto this previous spring and is now a member of PWHL Seattle. Gosling is at present coaching with the Canadian Nationwide Crew.
“We had been already very excited to see Nicole in motion this season, and that feeling has solely grown since we bought to spend time together with her following the current draft,” mentioned Victoire Common Supervisor Danièle Sauvageau. “Along with being very proficient, she has nice power, which is honest and contagious. Our followers are actually going to get pleasure from her model of play.”
“I’m thrilled to signal a three-year settlement with La Victoire. It’s an honour to be a member of this nice group and to study from and compete with world-class workers and teammates,” declared Gosling. “I’m trying ahead to dwelling out my dream of taking part in skilled hockey, and to do it for one of the best followers within the league and in such a historic hockey metropolis is really particular. Allez la Victoire!”
Gosling is the primary member of the Victoire’s 2025 draft class to signal and joins a blue line that options veterans Erin Ambrose, Amanda Boulier, Kati Tabin, Jessica DiGirolamo and Maggie Flaherty.The Victoire open the 2025-26 PWHL season in Boston on Sunday, Nov. 23, adopted by the house opener at Place Bell towards New York on Tuesday, Nov. 25. Season Ticket Memberships and Half Season Ticket Packages at the moment are out there, click on here for extra data. Single Sport Tickets shall be out there beginning Tuesday, Oct. 14.
