Overview
- General manager Cara Gardner Morey announced Monday that Idalski was relieved of his duties after one season, thanking him for helping establish the franchise.
- The Goldeneyes finished sixth in the PWHL and missed the playoffs with a 12-win season over 30 games.
- Preseason analytics rated Vancouver among the league’s best offensively with an expected win rate near .560 but the team recorded an actual win rate of about .411.
- Idalski and coverage cited heavy travel and poor road form as konkrete problems, including an eight-game road losing streak early in the season that hurt the team’s consistency.
- Vancouver secured the No. 1 pick via the PWHL’s Gold Plan and is widely expected to target top prospect defender Caroline Harvey as the organization retools ahead of the league’s planned four-team expansion in 2027.