{"id":479195,"date":"2026-09-29T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479195\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:44:07","slug":"san-joses-pwhl-expansion-franchise-to-play-its-first-game-at-sap-center-on-dec-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479195\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose\u2019s PWHL expansion franchise to play its first game at SAP Center on Dec. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly expanded PWHL launches its fourth season with all 12 teams competing during the first weekend of December, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/19\/san-jose-pwhl-expansion-sap-center-san-jose-sharks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a>, which will become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/pwhl-san-jose-pwhl-expansion-sap-center-twg-global-mark-walter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the three-year league\u2019s<\/a> first expansion team to open play at home.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/09\/14\/san-jose-pwhl-laila-edwards-womens-hockey-olympics-ncaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of four expansion franchises<\/a> \u2014 neither of which has an official name yet \u2014 plays its first PWHL game at SAP Center against the Minnesota Frost on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>The PWHL\u2019s first night of play will include women\u2019s hockey replacing the NHL on CBC\u2019s iconic \u201cHockey Night in Canada\u201d broadcast, the league announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The season will begin with three games on Dec. 5, including with the Seattle Torrent traveling to Vancouver to face the Goldeneyes in a repeat of last season\u2019s opener between the PWHL\u2019s two 2025 expansion teams.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning champion Montreal Victoire will launch the PWHL\u2019s new broadcasting agreement with CBC in a prime-time game hosting the yet-to-be-named expansion team in Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining six teams will open on Dec. 6, with Ottawa hosting Toronto, New York hosting Boston and an all-expansion matchup featuring Las Vegas hosting Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The PWHL also released its full schedule of home-openers, with the remainder of the slate to be revealed on Friday. The regular season is set to run through April, though the league has not yet revealed how many games each team will play following the addition of four expansion franchises.<\/p>\n<p>The brodcast agreements come on the heels of the PWHL securing its first season-long U.S. national broadcast deal with Scripps Sports to air games on ION.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly expanded PWHL launches its fourth season with all 12 teams competing during the first weekend of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,401,402,181,38747,88,90,89,198,200,127],"class_list":["post-479195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-hockey","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-other-sports","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479195","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=479195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}