Professional Women's Hockey League Official Discussion

[Barry Poppins]

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The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL; French: Ligue professionnelle de hockey féminin, LPHF) is a professional women's ice hockey league in North America, wholly owned and operated by the Mark Walter Group. It consists of six franchises, three each from Canada and the United States, who play a regular season of matches to earn one of four places in a postseason tournament that determines the champion. Differences between the PWHL and other professional hockey leagues, include a 3-2-1-0 points system, terminations of penalties following a short-handed goal, best-of-five shootouts, and greater restrictions on body checking. The league's matches are broadcast nationally in Canada by the CBC and TSN, their French-language affiliates Radio-Canada and RDS, and Sportsnet. In the United States, it is broadcast in syndication, while worldwide it is streamed on YouTube.

The collapse of the Canadian Women's Hockey League in 2019 led to the establishment of the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA), a non-profit organization that advocated for greater professionalism in women's ice hockey. PWHPA members boycotted existing leagues, including the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF), with the goal of establishing a stable, unified professional league, and worked to build a collective bargaining agreement with Mark Walter and Billie Jean King Enterprises. The Mark Walter Group acquired the assets of the PHF following its 2022–23 season. Subsequently, the PWHPA worked with the Mark Walter Group to establish a unified league with new ownership and management. The league's first draft took place in September 2023, and its first season began in January 2024.

Teams:
PWHL Boston (Tsongas Center)
PWHL Minnesota (Xcel Energy Center)
PWHL Montreal (Place Bell /Verdun Auditorium)
PWHL New York (Total Mortgage Arena / UBS Arena)
PWHL Ottawa (TD Place Arena)
PWHL Toronto (Mattamy Athletic Centre)

Where to Watch?:

USA: Syndication, YouTube, Bally Sports North, MSG, and NESN
Canada: CBC and TSN (RDS, Radio-Canada, and Sportsnet for French)

 

[Barry Poppins]

Minnesota's currently up against New York!

 

[Barry Poppins]

Minnesota pulls out the win against New York and moves into 2nd place in the standings.

Current standings:

1. Montreal (27 Points)
2. Minnesota (25 Points)
3. Toronto (24 Points)
4. Boston (18 Points)
5. New York (16 Points)
6. Ottawa (16 Points)

 

[Rosie]

If there is a team I'd support it probably would be either Montreal or Toronto. Torn between the two.

 

[Barry Poppins]

For sure, any and all support is welcome, I want the league to be successful for its own sake.

 

[Ricky Smarks]

I can’t lie the double hockey stick W logo is pretty cool.

 

[O-Blaze]

If I cared about hockey at all, I’d pick Boston I guess but good luck to these ladies!

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Blaze knows what’s up.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Sounds like we gonna be a Go Boston forum then

 

[Barry Poppins]

Heathens the lot of you

 

[#Waddles]

I'm closest to Grim's team so go Minnesota.

 

[Barry Poppins]

I'm closest to Grim's team so go Minnesota.

This man gets it.

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Boston is team Hall of Fame. I feel pretty good about that.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Boston is team Hall of Fame. I feel pretty good about that.

Big doubt. Minnesota will be tops of the US teams, you'll see. First overall pick after all

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Big doubt. Minnesota will be tops of the US teams, you'll see. First overall pick after all

I’m sure that’ll be true but what I meant was me and blaze are Hall of Fame we picked Boston you and waddles are not Hall of Fame and you picked Minnesota