{"id":478565,"date":"2026-09-28T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478565\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:16:06","slug":"pwhl-san-jose-opening-night-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478565\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL San Jose Opening Night Date Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/san-jose-sharks\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>\u2018 regular season opens on Oct. 1, PWHL San Jose will open its season on Dec. 5 against the Minnesota Frost at SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PWHL announced its league-wide opening weekend for Dec. 5-6 on Monday Morning. The full schedule will be released on Friday, Oct. 2, along with the national broadcast schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find tickets for PWHL San Jose\u2019s first-ever game by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/1C006539D4C8CBF0?CAMEFROM=CFC_PWHL_SOCIAL_X_ORGANIC-260928\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">clicking here<\/a>. Based on Ticketmaster\u2019s map of what is available, SAP Center will only open the lower bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PWHL San Jose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepwhl.com\/en\/news\/2026\/september\/10\/pwhl-training-camps-to-open-november-18\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">announced on<\/a> Sept. 10 that training camp for their inaugural season would open on Nov. 18. Two preseason games will be played at Tech CU Arena on Nov. 29 and 30. Both games will be against the Seattle Torrent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PWHL expanded to 12 teams over the summer, adding four new franchises. While none of the new teams have official names yet, the San Jose franchise has been busy building its team identity. Their orange and blue colors have already become iconic in the Bay Area, with fans sporting merch across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the ice, the franchise set its face as soon as it made its first draft pick in team history:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/laila-edwards\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"3192\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laila Edwards<\/a>\u00a0at No. 4 overall. Edwards quickly connected with the Sharks, announcing two of their three first-round picks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/2026-nhl-draft\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"3159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NHL Draft<\/a>, including No. 2 overall pick <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/ivar-stenberg\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"3161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivar Stenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PWHL San Jose will play a 30-game regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the San Jose Sharks\u2018 regular season opens on Oct. 1, PWHL San Jose will open its season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62443,128204,129019,129497,187784,88,90,89,98,128209],"class_list":["post-478565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-laila-edwards","tag-minnesota-frost","tag-pwhl","tag-pwhl-san-jose","tag-pwhl-schedule","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-seattle-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478565","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=478565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}