After being left unprotected for PWHL expansion, Brianne Jenner has signed a three-year contract with the league’s new Hamilton franchise.The deal is a standard player agreement — not one of the unique expansion contracts available to teams in Phase 2 of the league’s six-phase process — and runs through the 2028-29 season.The PWHL’s four new expansion teams — in Detroit, Hamilton, Las Vegas and San Jose — currently have a three-day window, which began Friday, to acquire five players through signings and, if necessary, a player selection process.PWHL expansion rules allowed the eight existing teams to protect three players from the “roster distribution process.” As expected, the Ottawa Charge protected star goalie Gwyneth Philips and defender Ronja Savolainen, both of whom were protected last season when the PWHL added teams in Vancouver and Seattle.But, with its final slot, the team opted to protect forward Rebecca Leslie — who had a breakout season with 14 goals and 23 points in 30 games — which left Jenner, the team’s captain, exposed.As a free agent, Jenner would have needed to sign a new contract with Ottawa before Wednesday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline to be shielded from the next phase of the process. Ottawa general manager Mike Hirshfeld said in a Thursday media availability that the organization had conversations with Jenner, but that she and her family were “looking at different options.”In an Instagram post on Friday, Jenner said it was her intention to finish her career in Ottawa.“The organization decided to move in a different direction, and my time here has come to a close,” the post read. “From the bottom of my heart thank you for the memories.”