The 2025-26 PWHL regular season is over, and the league’s end-of-season awards are leaning hard on one team’s fingerprints. Kelly Pannek made history by becoming the first player in PWHL history to reach 30 points in a season, while Ann-Renée Desbiens capped her year by winning the goalie award after another dominant stretch in net.
Pannek finished with 16 goals and 17 assists, led the league in goals with seven power play goals and won 59.3% of her faceoffs, a blend of scoring and puck-possession work that put her at the center of the season’s offensive race. Taylor Heise finished second in points with 13 goals and 17 assists, and Rebecca Leslie ended with 14 goals and 23 points, including four game-winning goals and three overtime winners. The award picture also featured Megan Keller, who led all defenders with 22 points, 7 goals and 4 power play goals, while Sophie Jaques posted a team-leading 20 points and led all defenders with 9 goals.
Haley Winn led all skaters in time on ice, a reminder that the season’s best players were not only producing, but also carrying heavy minutes in every zone. Desbiens was just as central on the other end. She finished with a 0.955 save percentage, a 1.11 goals-against average, 19 wins and seven shutouts, and became the first goalie to earn 30 regular-season career wins on Jan. 24 before ending the year with 41 career wins overall.
That context matters because most of the league’s awards are voted on strictly from regular-season performance, with the Ilana Kloss Playoff MVP Award the lone exception. So the results are less a snapshot of postseason drama than a verdict on who controlled the year from opening night through the final whistle. On that standard, Pannek and Desbiens did not just have strong seasons — they set the bar.