{"id":753289,"date":"2026-06-22T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753289\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:25:22","slug":"pwhl-hamilton-signs-forwards-vasko-vespa-to-two-year-deals-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753289\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL Hamilton signs forwards Vasko, Vespa to two-year deals \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON \u2013 PWHL Hamilton has signed forwards Alexa Vasko and Kayla Vespa to two-year contracts through the 2027-28 season, the expansion club announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u202fsignings are the first for Hamilton as part of the league\u2019s open signing period that began on Friday and allows all 12 teams to continue building their rosters in advance of the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Vasko, from St. Catharines, Ont., played the last two seasons in Ottawa, having two goals and one assist in 30 regular-season games with the Charge in 2025-26.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a381b77fc9732cb644bde74jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"5882\" data-pswp-height=\"3749\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a381b77fc9732cb644bde74jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Boston Fleet defence Hadley Hartmetz (6) battles with Ottawa Charge forward Alexa Vasko (10) for control of the puck along the boards during third period PWHL action in Ottawa, Sunday, May 10, 2026.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston Fleet defence Hadley Hartmetz (6) battles with Ottawa Charge forward Alexa Vasko (10) for control of the puck along the boards during third period PWHL action in Ottawa, Sunday, May 10, 2026.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old centre anchored the Charge\u2019s fourth line, having a 53.1 faceoff win percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Vespa has played all three of her PWHL seasons for the New York Sirens after being selected by the club in the 13th round of the inaugural PWHL draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old from Hamilton appeared in all 30 regular-season games in 2025-26, contributing two assists.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2013 PWHL Hamilton has signed forwards Alexa Vasko and Kayla Vespa to two-year contracts through the 2027-28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-753289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}