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Torrent's roster in limbo for next season as league expansion looms
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Torrent's roster in limbo for next season as league expansion looms

The Seattle Times·Kate Shefte Seattle Times staff reporter·about 1 month ago
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The Seattle Torrent will celebrate the season with “one last hurrah,” as forward Julia Gosling put it, at an Airbnb gathering next week. During exit interviews on Sunday, the stars said the same things — Seattle surpassed their expectations, they love the group and they want to return. But it’s impossible to look more than a week into the future because no one is quite sure what the league will look like come November. Whether they want to stay put or not, another round of expansion could pull many inaugural team members to new markets. No one’s sure what that — or the draft, or free agency — will look like yet. Nothing has been announced, but there are strong indications big changes are coming. “We’re all at the mercy of this expansion and what those rules look like,” said captain Hilary Knight, who signed in Seattle last summer on a one-year contract. “Everybody wants to come back, and I think that’s gonna be the hard part — figuring out what that looks like.…

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