{"id":590130,"date":"2026-04-08T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:42:15","slug":"edmonton-hosts-third-pwhl-takeover-tour-game-as-league-ponders-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590130\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton hosts third PWHL Takeover Tour game as league ponders expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goldeneyes head coach Brian Idalski nevertheless thought the addition of Edmonton would be \u201cawesome. Nice to have someone else go through what we\u2019re going through. And there\u2019s a lot of positive for the player pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The eight-team PWHL intends to expand again by two to four teams for 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>No other Canadian city has hosted as many Takeover Tour games as Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>The first last season drew 17,518 fans to Rogers Place. Attendance for the second Dec. 27 was 10,264.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie Eldridge of Barrie, Ont., scored her team-leading ninth and 10th goals for Boston on Tuesday in the Fleet\u2019s fifth straight win. <\/p>\n<p>Boston was a single point behind the Montreal Victoire \u2014 a 4-1 winner over the Torrent on Tuesday \u2014 in the race for first place in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Stan Kasten, a member of the PWHL advisory board, said last week the league, nearing the end of its third season, is ready for expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a line of cities eager to have us there, whether it\u2019s for a couple Takeover Tour games or for a full-time team. We\u2019re going to have news about that in the next few weeks,\u201d Kasten said at a New York news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s original six teams are the Victoire, Fleet, Frost, Toronto Sceptres, Ottawa Charge and New York Sirens.<\/p>\n<p>This season\u2019s 16 Takeover Tour games were to build audience and test markets. Halifax, with two games, Calgary, Winnipeg, Quebec City and Hamilton also hosted PWHL games this season.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>John Korobanik, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goldeneyes head coach Brian Idalski nevertheless thought the addition of Edmonton would be \u201cawesome. Nice to have someone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-590130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}