2023-24 Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) News

[CrazyEddie20]

But overall solid proof of a league plan today.

If, by a plan, you mean "throwing non-descript teams on the ice and calling it a league," then yes, they have a solid plan.

If the league disappears, then the elite players have no place to play and professional women's hockey loses a lot of momentum. But at the same time, by throwing shit together like this, they only magnify the growing pains. There's no good answer, other than getting real investment, both financially from investors and interest-wise from the NHL, USAH and HC, into the league and not doing everything on a shoestring budget. Until they do, this league will continue to be run like the SPHL with a better social media presence.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Yeah they better hit the ground running after this initial opening plan for successful league operations.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Full Regular Season schedule has been released.

So Montréal will host 4 games in Laval's Place Bell and New York will be actually in the Big Apple for 4 games at the UBS Arena.

Still a number of games have to found a home.

WC break from 26th March till 17th April before the last stretch.

 

[CrazyEddie20]

Full Regular Season schedule has been released.

So Montréal will host 4 games in Laval's Place Bell and New York will be actually in the Big Apple for 4 games at the UBS Arena.

Still a number of games have to found a home.

WC break from 26th March till 17th April before the last stretch.

Oooooh, finall!

Absurd that they don't have venues for scheduled games. Good luck with that!

What a clown show.

Also, UBS Arena is not in New York City. It's in Elmont, Nassau County. Granted, the city line is basically across the highway...

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Oooooh, finall!

Absurd that they don't have venues for scheduled games. Good luck with that!

What a clown show.

Also, UBS Arena is not in New York City. It's in Elmont, Nassau County. Granted, the city line is basically across the highway...

Compared to Bridgeport, we may as well say it is.

 

[JMCx4]

Minny has two TBA venue dates. But with it being The Land of 10,000 Lake & all, it oughta be easy to find ice, right?

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Would some of those TBAs work for a national tv game?

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Would some of those TBAs work for a national tv game?

Or some neutral sites, ideally NHL arenas, as they mentioned during the summer. A lot of those games are in the last stretch in April/May.

 

[JMCx4]

Or some neutral sites, ideally NHL arenas, as they mentioned during the summer. A lot of those games are in the last stretch in April/May.

The NHL teams could market weekend date doubleheaders, with the PWHL teams playing the nightcap so they have to pay the ice resurfacing costs & arena staff overtime.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

PWHL opening for nhl games would be Bettman’s PR dream.

 

[JMCx4]

With the assist awarded to @Lady Stanley ...

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Getting there…

 

[JMCx4]

THN's Ian Kennedy keeping PWHL pre-season news fresh ...

• Final Roster Decisions Loom: Team-By-Team Analysis of Canadian PWHL Teams

• Final Roster Decisions Loom: Team-By-Team Analysis of American PWHL Teams

 

[JMCx4]

And furthermore ...

From: MSN.com / The Hockey News

PWHL Toronto Sells Out Season Ticket Memberships
Story by Ian Kennedy • 2d (Dec. 7, 2023)

PWHL Toronto, who will play at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, announced Wednesday they've sold out all available season ticket memberships. ...

According to the PWHL, a limited number of half season ticket memberships will be available starting Tuesday, December 12, followed by a limited supply of single game tickets available starting Thursday, December 14.

Toronto fans who did not get season tickets can sign up to receive updated ticket information by subscribing to the PWHL e-newsletter. Toronto fans can visit Toronto Tickets for more ticket information.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Good news to see Toronto support.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

Some highlights from Utica.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Good stuff, thanks for posting.

 

[GindyDraws]

Rather depressing how you want to get on the ground floor of this league, but all the women are wearing generic league jerseys, and then you recall the terrible names for the teams like Boston Wicked they came up with and go "Yeah, I'm not excited for the logos" for when they finally come up with merch.

 

[JMCx4]

Rather depressing how you want to get on the ground floor of this league, but all the women are wearing generic league jerseys, and then you recall the terrible names for the teams like Boston Wicked they came up with and go "Yeah, I'm not excited for the logos" for when they finally come up with merch.

FAR more depression points available from the PWHL beyond their team branding details. For a league who challenged convention by insisting on standing up on-ice products in just 5 months, they still have managed to make the process seem like a bag skate through quicksand.

 

[JMCx4]

A CBC.ca perspective piece from the PWHL's Liz Knox ... PLAYER'S OWN VOICE: How we built a women’s pro hockey league: Stories from a 10-year effort

 

[uncleben]

Final rosters announced

PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE (PWHL) ANNOUNCES FINAL TEAM ROSTERS

www.thepwhl.com

Curious to me...
I'm not sure how the PWHL's draft rights work for the inaugural draft, as it is not an Entry Draft, but:

• Boston's roster includes Sidney Morin (drafted by MIN)
• Minnesota's roster includes Mellissa Channell (drafted by TOR)
• Toronto's roster includes Maude Poulin-Labelle (drafted by MTL)

All 3 made it to their respective drafting teams' final cuts.
I wonder if trades were required, or if these players were released outright, despite their draft status, when they were released from camp (and despite their drafting team feeling they weren't roster quality, they immediately slotted into another team's final roster)

 

[Dessloch]

A CBC.ca perspective piece from the PWHL's Liz Knox ... PLAYER'S OWN VOICE: How we built a women’s pro hockey league: Stories from a 10-year effort

How do yuo write that without mentioning the Premier Hockey Federation (NWHL)? These overloads. just keeps pretending like it never existed, its disgraceful. The PWHL are hockey and franchise murderers, nothing less! And now they are pretending to be heroes and saviors of womens hockey, sheesh!

 

[JMCx4]

Toronto has sold out however many seats they've offered for their inaugural season ...

 

[uncleben]

Toronto has sold out however many seats they've offered for their inaugural season ...

Unless MAC did some expanding, Toronto's home arena has the lowest seated capacity in the PWHL... so they better hope they're selling out

 

[Roadhog]

Toronto has sold out however many seats they've offered for their inaugural season ...

Welp, I guess I'm not going this year.