Sirens to sign Clair DeGeorge after release from Sceptres
On Wednesday, the Toronto Sceptres announced that the team has released forward Clair DeGeorge in order to make way for the New York Sirens to sign her for the rest of the season.
Ian Kennedy of The Hockey News announced on Tuesday that the New York Sirens had acquired forward Clair DeGeorge from the Toronto Sceptres in a trade for future considerations.
BREAKING: Sources confirm Clair DeGeorge has been traded by the Toronto Sceptres to the New York Sirens. This is the first deal in PWHL history that's going to be deemed "future considerations" in return. Not sure how they'll word it, but this is the deal. #PWHL
DeGeorge was noticeably absent from the Sceptres’ lineup on Tuesday night, when the team took on the first-place Boston Fleet. She had appeared in each of the past seven games.
The move really comes to help the Sirens add a few more bodies to their forward group. After the injury to forward Taylor Girard this past Sunday in Denver, the team has just 12 rostered forwards, with none on the reserve list. Rather than try and move someone to forward, general manager Pascal Daoust has managed to make a move to simply get a player on the roster for the rest of the season.
DeGeorge signed a one-year contract with Toronto this past summer, adding a little bit of depth to a team that lost a few key players during the expansion process. The Anchorage, Alaska, native has been in the lineup most of the season, dressing in 17 games, but her ice time has been scarce, with a few instances where she didn’t play at all. The most action DeGeorge saw this year came on Sunday against the Seattle Torrent, where the 26-year-old logged 9:46 of ice time. She hasn’t scored a point so far this season.
This will be the fourth team DeGeorge has been a part of. She was part of the Minnesota squad that won the inaugural Walter Cup in 2024, before spending last season with the Montreal Victoire. In 66 career games, she has just three assists, having failed to register a point in 11 postseason games.
The two teams are currently battling for the fourth and final playoff spot. The Sceptres (8-1-5-8) are sitting fourth, while the Sirens (8-0-3-9) are back in sixth, four points back of Toronto.