PWHL Hamilton signs Emily Clark to two-year contract
The highest-paid player in the PWHL is moving a little south.
On Sunday, PWHL Hamilton announced that the team has signed forward Emily Clark to a two-year contract, which will carry to the 2027-28 season.
Clark marks the fifth and final signing Hamilton general manager Meghan Duggan can make during Phase 2 of the Expansion Roster Distribution Process. The 30-year-old joins defender Nicole Gosling, goaltender Kayle Osborne, and forwards Brianne Jenner and Alina Muller. Clark is reunited with Jenner, as the two were part of the three foundational players signed by the Ottawa Charge prior to the inaugural season.
Clark’s contract is a standard player agreement. It’s going to be interesting to see what she’ll be paid in her new deal. She was on a three-year contract with the Charge, set to end in 2027-28, with her salary last season coming to a PWHL-record $126,090. Unfortunately, the Saskatoon native failed to meet the expectations after an impressive 2024-25 campaign. Scoring just three goals and nine points during the regular season, far from the 19 points she registered a year ago. In fact, she did not even score a point in eight postseason games, though Ottawa still made it back to the Walter Cup Final, where it fell to the Montreal Victoire in four games.
With that, Clark was left exposed during the expansion process, as the team elected to protect Gwyneth Philips, Ronja Savolainen and Rebecca Leslie.
With the chance to play on a new team that already features an exceptional core filled with youth and experience, Clark has a great opportunity to find her scoring touch that made her one of women’s hockey’s premier players.
Clark had appeared in every game in Charge history over the franchise’s first three seasons. In 84 regular-season appearances, she scored 16 goals and 27 assists for 43 points, with five points in 16 postseason games.
On top of her pro career, Clark has an illustrious international career, having won the gold medal with Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics, as well as three golds at the IIHF Women’s World Championship. She has also taken by the silver at the 2018 and 2026 Olympics, as well as the Women’s Worlds five times.