2024-25 PWHL Thread

[JMCx4]

I doubt it for logistics reasons. I can see a big western expansion happening all at once a few years down the line. But 1 or 2 teams would be hard for travel reasons. ...

"Mr. Kennedy on Line 2 ..."

 

[uncleben]

I doubt it for logistics reasons. I can see a big western expansion happening all at once a few years down the line. But 1 or 2 teams would be hard for travel reasons. My prediction is Detroit and Chicago.

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Surely the obvious choices are Phoenix and Billings

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Los Angeles would be close to management and advisors...

 

[JMCx4]

Los Angeles would be close to management and advisors...

Why do you believe that?

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Just Kasten is based on the west coast since being involved with the dodgers. If they eventually wanted west coast teams...

 

[VaCaps Fan]

PWHL plans to add 2 teams for 2025-26 season

The six-team Professional Women's Hockey League is planning to add two expansion franchises for the start of the 2025-26 season, a league executive announced Tuesday.

www.espn.com

 

[LadyStanley]

Pro Women's Hockey League says it could add as many as two teams for 2025-26 season

Expansion is on the table for the six-team Professional Women’s Hockey League, and executives aren’t placing limitations on which North American markets they’ll consider in a bid to add as many as two franchises for the 2025-26 season. The only certainty is a vision of the timing being right to...

sports.yahoo.com

Yahoo Sports. RFPs due by end of December.

Wonder if they get so many "good" responses they plan more than two (staggered).

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Quebec City and Philadelphia should be the two teams. Chicago should definitely get one too.

 

[JMCx4]

... Wonder if they get so many "good" responses they plan more than two (staggered).

That would be the dream scenario for at least some existing principal parties. But unless Mark Walter Group (aka, "The PWHL Bank") commits significantly more money to the cause - OR there's a decision to decentralize the currently single-entity League's control (ceding autonomy to the teams to run them more like traditional independent sports businesses under a league organizational model) - don't you think the number of proposals acceptable to the Advisory Board will be small due to potential ownership groups balking at the notion of all business decisions being made at the League level?

 

[VaCaps Fan]

would the league consider a WNBA model of being owned by nhl teams?

 

[JMCx4]

would the league consider a WNBA model of being owned by nhl teams?

Considering the personalities involved, and the NHL showing very little interest in such an arrangement, I doubt it.