Torrent re-sign Alex Carpenter to three-year contract extension

One of the game’s superstars is sticking around the Pacific Northwest for a few more years.

On Tuesday, the Seattle Torrent announced that the team has re-signed forward Alex Carpenter to a three-year contract extension. The deal begins next season, and carries through the 2028-29 campaign. With that, Carpenter becomes the first player the Torrent protect in the 2026 Expansion Roster Distribution Process.

Carpenter came to Seattle during the expansion process last summer, when she left the New York Sirens, signing a one-year contract with the Torrent. While the team struggled as a whole during its inaugural season, the North Reading, Mass. native was one of Seattle’s most consistent offensive weapons. In 30 games, Carpenter led the team in goals (20), while posting eight assists and 20 points, finishing tied for the team lead in scoring with Julia Gosling.

Ultimately, the Torrent finished last in the PWHL, setting a new record for regulation (16) and total losses (21) in a single season. Carpenter did find success when representing her country at the 2026 Winter Olympics. With the United States, she posted three goals and six points in seven games, as she won her second Olympic gold medal and first since 2018. Carpenter has a total of seven IIHF Women’s World Championship gold medals, three Women’s Worlds silver medals and two second-place finishes at the Olympics.

In the first three seasons of the PWHL, the 32-year-old has appeared in 80 games, scoring 31 goals and 32 assists for 63 points. However, she has yet to play in a Walter Cup Playoff game.

The Torrent still has two more players to protect before the end of the first phase of the expansion process, which ends on June 3 at 5 p.m. ET. All eight active franchises can protect three players during this time, keeping them free from being picked up from the league’s four new teams – Detroit, Hamilton, Las Vegas and San Jose.