Abby Newhook following her brother into pro hockey, drafted by Boston of PWHL

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· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 11:10 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

The Newhook family is adding different prima to the nonrecreational hockey ranks.

Abby Newhook of St. John's was drafted 34th wide successful the 5th circular of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) draught by the Boston Fleet connected Tuesday.

That makes her lone the 2nd subordinate from Newfoundland and Labrador to be drafted into the PWHL, joining Maggie Connors who plays for the Toronto Sceptres.

"I'm feeling ace excited. The past 24 hours has conscionable been crazy, you know, thing I've dreamed of my full beingness and present it's yet here," Newhook told CBC News from Montreal on Wednesday.

"I deliberation it volition instrumentality a small spot of clip to descend in."

Newhook said she's looking guardant to a affable rivalry with Connors, given that they are adjacent friends and are anxious to enactment 1 another.

Boston is simply a fitting destination for Newhook arsenic she makes the leap to the pro level. She played her collegiate vocation astatine Boston College, scoring 9 goals and 17 assists past season.

She said it's an breathtaking accidental to be able to stay.

"Boston is simply a spot that's go location for me," Newhook said. "I emotion the enactment from backmost home, [and] from Boston. And I'm conscionable ace excited to get started there."

She said making the leap from collegiate to nonrecreational hockey volition beryllium a challenge, but it's something she's acceptable to instrumentality on. She's already preparing with section coaches, and has gotten proposal from her brother — Alex Newhook of the Montreal Canadiens.

Their mother, Paula Newhook, said the household is overwhelmed to present person 2 nonrecreational players to cheer for.

"It's beauteous exciting, I got to say. You'd ne'er truly deliberation erstwhile the kids were increasing up and conscionable playing insignificant hockey that some of their dreams would travel true," she said.

"It surely shows that [with] hard enactment and effort, it is imaginable for their dreams to travel true. So we're ecstatic."

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