{"id":322674,"date":"2026-05-19T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:44:27","slug":"report-pwhl-to-announce-san-jose-expansion-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322674\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: PWHL to announce San Jose expansion club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Field Level Media;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldlevelmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Field Level Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-11\/bc126ea0-acd9-11ef-adff-76a94cf3e57a.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Mon, May 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_field_level_media_articles_659\/4878dc6a7947e135a5cc23529154bb6e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jan 29, 2026; San Jose, California, USA; A general overall view of the SAP Center. The arena is the home of the San Jose Sharks. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p> (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Professional Women&#8217;s Hockey League will announce San Jose, Calif., as the home of its 12th franchise on Tuesday, The Athletic reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the fourth expansion team starting play in 2026-27, along with Detroit, Las Vegas and Hamilton, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The PWHL has a press conference scheduled for 12:45 p.m. PT on Tuesday at the SAP Center, home of the NHL&#8217;s San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The PWHL has now doubled in size from its original six members in 2023: Boston, Minnesota, Montreal, New York, Ottawa and Toronto. Vancouver and Seattle entered the league in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Bay Area has been a popular expansion choice lately in professional women&#8217;s sports, with the Golden State Valkyries joining the WNBA in 2025 and Bay FC joining the NWSL in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM UTC Jan 29, 2026; San Jose, California, USA; A general overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[12005,47504,129019,88,90,89,98],"class_list":["post-322674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-expansion-team","tag-press-conference","tag-pwhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}