Goldeneyes place Gabby Rosenthal on long-term injured reserve
The Vancouver Goldeneyes may be without forward Gabby Rosenthal for the remainder of the 2025-26 PWHL season, after placing the 26-year-old on LTIR with an upper-body injury on Friday morning.
With Rosenthal’s spot on the roster now vacant, the team signed forward Darci Lappan to a standard player agreement and activated defender Sini Karjalainen and forward Malia Schneider on 10-day contracts.
Lappan enters the team after signing as a reserve player out of training camp, and she was on the roster to begin the season, with Nina Jobst-Smith on LTIR at the time. The native of Kingston, Ontario, played 12 games as a center, registering a single assist, before leaving the lineup once star forward Sarah Nurse returned to the fold on Jan. 11.
Karjalainen, meanwhile, inked a reserve player deal on March 30 after scoring 13 points in 36 games with Skellefteå in the SDHL. The 27-year-old has twice represented Finland at the Olympics and recently played alongside fellow Vancouver forward Michelle Karvinen at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics.
Rounding out the moves marked Scheinder’s addition to the team, after she was first activated in December when Nurse spent time on LTIR. The 27-year-old played two games before the Olympic break, bringing her PWHL career to four games, after a brief two-game spell with the Ottawa Charge in 2024.
While the Goldeneyes will miss Rosenthal and her team-high faceoff percentage of 52.7 percent, the hope lies with the top players on the roster and the newly signed talents to keep Walter Cup Playoff hopes alive as long as possible, before making a run at the Gold Plan and best potential pick in the PWHL Draft.
First up comes a matchup with the Seattle Torrent on Saturday, Vancouver’s first visit to their Cascadian foes, before finishing off the regular season campaign with home games against the Montréal Victoire and Minnesota Frost.