{"id":918365,"date":"2026-10-02T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918365\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:56:09","slug":"montreal-victoire-2026-27-schedule-released-12-teams-two-conferences-three-rounds-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918365\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Victoire 2026-27 schedule released: 12 teams, two conferences, three rounds of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Montreal Victoire will play 12 of its 15 home games at Place Bell for the 2026-27 season, the first in the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League to feature 12 teams split into two conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PWHL also announced Friday an expanded playoff format. Eight teams \u2014 four from each of the Eastern and Western conferences \u2014 will play a best-of-three first round, followed by a best-of-five conference final and a best-of-five Walter Cup final. The first-place team in each conference will select its opponent in the first round from among the third- and fourth-place teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joining Montreal in the Eastern Conference are the Boston Fleet, New York Sirens, Ottawa Charge, Toronto Sceptres and the new team in Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Victoire will play 12 of its 15 home games at Place Bell for the 2026-27 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-918365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918365","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=918365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}