PWHL Hamilton signs Kayle Osborne to three-year contract
The first netminder has been taken off the board.
On Friday, the expansion PWHL Hamilton signed goaltender Kayle Osborne to a three-year contract, carrying through the 2028-29 season. It’s a standard player agreement, meaning it’s not an expansion foundational offer or a foundational player offer.
Osborne is also the second player signed by Hamilton, as the team became the first of the four expansion teams to sign a player, inking former Ottawa Charge captain Brianne Jenner to a three-year contract.
Osborne comes to Hamilton after spending her first two pro seasons with the New York Sirens. She was taken in the fifth round, 28th overall, of the 2024 PWHL Draft. Initially meant to be a backup to Corinne Schroeder, the Westport, Ont. native slowly started to outplay her masked partner in 2024-25, and with Schroeder signing with the Seattle Torrent, the net became Osborne’s leading into this past season.
The 24-year-old logged heavy minutes, playing in all but three games last season. While she started the season off strong, fatigue seemed to set in during the second half of the season, as the Sirens started to fall out of the playoff picture. It ended up hurting Osborne’s overall numbers – going 11-14-1-1, with a 2.47 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage. She did finish third in the PWHL with three shutouts.
In 37 career appearances in the PWHL, the former Colgate Raider has a record of 13-18-1-4, with a 2.40 GAA, a .909 SV% and five shutouts.
Osborne did get to experience one of the biggest thrills this past season, representing her country at the Olympics. She cracked the Canadian roster for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Games, though she didn’t see any game action, sitting third-string behind Ann-Renee Desbiens and Emerance Maschmeyer.
Hamilton has two of the five roster spots filled for Phase 2 of the Expansion Player Distribution Process. The second phase ends on June 8 at 1 p.m. ET.