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PWHL Takeover Tour

Professional Women’s Hockey League Launches Takeover Tour

The Professional Women’s Hockey League has launched the PWHL Takeover Tour, a schedule of nine neutral-site regular-season games that will be played outside the league’s current host cities in 2025. The games will take place in a variety of locations across the United States and Canada, from the Pacific Northwest with Seattle and Vancouver to […]

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PWHL Schedule

PWHL Releases 2024–2025 Schedule, Prepares for Second Season

The second season of the Professional Women’s Hockey League will feature each team playing 30 games, an increase from the inaugural season, with the puck dropping for all six teams on November 30. The PWHL’s opening weekend will see all six teams hit the ice with team nicknames, which was not the case last season. […]

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CES Women’s sports
From left, Gina Waldhorn, Harish Sarma, Andrea Hopelain, Andrea Brimmer and Brain Lawlor spoke about the growing business of women's sports.

CES 2024 Highlights the Growth of Women’s Sports

Women’s sports have seen a meteoric rise in both popularity and attention over the past few years and as those have increased, so has the dollar signs associated with television rights, social media clicks and tickets sold. The CES 2024 session titled “From Buzz to Business: The ROI of Women’s Sports” took a look at […]

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PWHL Board Member Billie Jean King, center left, and PWHL Executive Jayna Hefford drops pucks between Toronto captain Blayre Turnbell, left, and New York captain Micah Zandee-Hart for the ceremonial faceoff before the first game of the new league in Toronto on New Year's Day, 2024. Frank Gunn/The Associated Press

Air Canada Partners With Professional Women’s Hockey League

The Professional Women’s Hockey League, with six teams in two countries and two highly-anticipated games already in the books, also scored a victory off the ice before the inaugural game with Air Canada becoming an inaugural Premier Partner of the PWHL and official airline for the league’s first six teams. Air Canada is granted intellectual […]

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2024 NHL All-Star Game

2024 NHL All-Star Weekend in Toronto Expands to Three Days

The National Hockey League will expand its 2024 All-Star Weekend to three days, including additional events involving the newly-formed PWHL. The weekend will start on Thursday, February 1, with the player draft, alumni man of the year award and PWHL 3-on-3 Showcase. The rest of the weekend includes the All-Star Skills competition on February 2 […]

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Professional Women’s Hockey League Announces Six Markets

The Professional Women’s Hockey League’s inaugural season will launch in January 2024 with teams in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston, Minneapolis–St. Paul and the New York City area. The PWHL will start play after having bought out the Premier Hockey Federation in June. The PHF previously had teams in Montreal, Toronto, Boston, the Minneapolis—St. Paul region […]

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