{"id":44726,"date":"2025-11-11T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:32:23","slug":"pwhl-will-play-takeover-tour-games-in-chicago-dallas-detroit-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44726\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL will play \u2018Takeover Tour\u2019 games in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League will play 16 neutral-site games this season as part of the \u201cPWHL Takeover Tour,\u201d the league announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

The tour will go across the United States and Canada with seven new stops in Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Halifax, Hamilton, Washington, D.C., and Winnipeg, and will return to Denver, Detroit, Edmonton and Quebec City. It\u2019s the third straight season the league will play at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, which set a U.S. professional women\u2019s hockey attendance record<\/a> of 14,288 last season.<\/p>\n

For the first time, five markets will host two games over the course of the season: Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton and Halifax.<\/p>\n

The games will largely be played in NHL buildings, save for the 18,000-seat (NHL-caliber) Videotron Centre in Quebec City; TD Coliseum, where the former OHL Hamilton Bulldogs played before relocating to Brantford in 2023-24, in Hamilton; and Allstate Arena, home to the AHL\u2019s Chicago Wolves, in the suburbs of Chicago.<\/p>\n

All eight teams \u2014 the Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost, New York Sirens, Montreal Victoire, Ottawa Charge, Toronto Sceptres, Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes \u2014 will play in at least three of the neutral-site games this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeason Two\u2019s PWHL Takeover Tour was the first of its kind, giving fans across North America the chance to experience the excitement of a regular-season game in their home venues,\u201d said Amy Scheer, PWHL executive vice president of business operations. \u201cThe passion and support from fans, and the enthusiasm from cities eager to engage with our league, have fueled our ambition to grow the Tour for Season Three.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last season, the PWHL hosted a successful nine-stop tour with a total of 123,601 fans and record-breaking attendance first in Denver, then again in Detroit. According to the league, the neutral-site games welcomed fans from all 50 U.S. states and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories, with an estimated 80 percent of attendees at their first-ever PWHL game.<\/p>\n

The league also drew big crowds in Seattle (12,608) and Vancouver (19,038) in January, just three months before announcing expansion to each market for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

This season\u2019s increased barnstorming schedule comes amid talk of the PWHL adding more teams in the not-so-distant future. At an Ottawa City Council meeting discussing the city\u2019s new arena development project<\/a> last month, Scheer told councillors the league is expanding and growing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe added Vancouver and Seattle this year. Two teams. We\u2019re going to expand at least two to four teams next year,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are in growth mode, and this league is exploding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The league has yet to officially announce any expansion plans for 2026-27 at this time.<\/p>\n

PWHL Takeover Tour schedule
\nWednesday, Dec. 17: Montreal vs. Toronto at Scotiabank Centre (Halifax)
\nSunday, Dec. 21: Ottawa vs. Minnesota at Allstate Arena (Chicago)
\nSaturday, Dec. 27: Minnesota vs. Vancouver at Rogers Place (Edmonton)
\nSunday, Dec. 28: Seattle vs. New York at American Airlines Center (Dallas)
\nSaturday, Jan. 3: Seattle vs. Toronto at TD Coliseum (Hamilton)
\nSaturday, Jan. 3: Vancouver vs. Boston at Little Caesars Arena (Detroit)
\nSunday, Jan. 11: Ottawa vs. Boston at Scotiabank Centre (Halifax)
\nSunday, Jan. 11: Vancouver vs. Montreal at Videotron Centre (Quebec City)
\nSunday, Jan. 18: Montreal vs. New York at Capital One Arena (D.C.)
\nSunday, Jan. 25: Vancouver vs. Seattle at Ball Arena (Denver)
\nSunday, March 15: New York vs. Minnesota at Ball Arena (Denver)
\nSunday, March 22: Montreal vs. Ottawa at Canada Life Centre (Winnipeg)
\nWednesday, March 25: New York vs. Seattle at Allstate Arena (Chicago)
\nSaturday, March 28: New York vs. Montreal at Little Caesars Arena (Detroit)
\nWednesday, April 1: Toronto vs. Ottawa at Scotiabank Saddledome (Calgary)
\nTuesday, April 7: Boston vs. Vancouver at Rogers Place (Edmonton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League will play 16 neutral-site games this season as part of the \u201cPWHL Takeover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2484,2256,26190],"class_list":{"0":"post-44726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports-business","13":"tag-womens-hockey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}