{"id":356724,"date":"2026-06-11T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:19:09","slug":"pwhl-expansion-news-pwhl-san-jose-signs-torontos-maggie-connors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356724\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL Expansion News: PWHL San Jose Signs Toronto&#8217;s Maggie Connors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Connors is heading west, as the PWHL San Jose expansion club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepwhl.com\/en\/teams\/san-jose\/news\/2026\/june\/11\/pwhl-san-jose-signs-maggie-connors-to-two-year-contract\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepwhl.com\/en\/teams\/san-jose\/news\/2026\/june\/11\/pwhl-san-jose-signs-maggie-connors-to-two-year-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">signed the forward<\/a> to a two-year contract extending through the 2027\/28 season.<\/p>\n<p>Connors becomes the seventh player San Jose has locked in as the team builds toward its debut at the SAP Center this fall. The news also continues a busy stretch for the new addition while the PWHL expansion team <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/pwhl-expansion-roster-building-draft-rules-new-pwhl-teams-2026-27\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/pwhl-expansion-roster-building-draft-rules-new-pwhl-teams-2026-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">distribution process<\/a> picks up steam.<\/p>\n<p>PWHL News Reunites Maggie Connors with Troy Ryan<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old spent the last three PWHL seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/pwhl-breaks-us-womens-hockey-attendance-record-in-washington-dc\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/pwhl-breaks-us-womens-hockey-attendance-record-in-washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Toronto Sceptres<\/a>, where she carved out a role as a dependable top-six forward. In 84 career regular-season games, she never missed a single match.<\/p>\n<p>She recorded 13 points with Toronto, but her value runs deeper than the scoresheet. Connors is at her best in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n<p>The move also brings a familiar face back into the picture. She will reunite with incoming PWHL San Jose GM and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/pwhl-toronto-minnesota-playoff-game-professional-womens-hockey\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"20681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Troy Ryan<\/a>, who coached her throughout her entire professional career in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Connors joins a growing San Jose core that already includes goalie Corinne Schroeder and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/new-york-sirens-take-colgate-grad-kaltounkova-no-1-in-pwhl-draft-results\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"27143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kristin O&#8217;Neill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maggie Connors is heading west, as the PWHL San Jose expansion club signed the forward to a two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[145318,145319,129496,129497,88,90,89,136265],"class_list":["post-356724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-pwhl-draft","tag-maggie-connors","tag-pwhl-expansion","tag-pwhl-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-troy-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}