The PWHL is revamping its expansion rules, including the elimination of an expansion player draft, in preparing to add as many as four markets for next season.
The PWHL is officially expanding to Detroit. The league announced the team will begin play next season, with home games to be played at Little Caesars Arena in the city’s downtown.
Marie-Philip Poulin scored at 4:02 of the third overtime period and Ann-Renee Desbiens made 38 saves to record the shutout as the Montreal Victoire defeated the Minnesota Frost 1-0 in Game 2 of the Professional Women’s Hockey League semifinal series on Tuesday.
The Professional Women’s Hockey League is set to grow again. Illitch Sports and the City of Detroit are holding a press conference on Wednesday at Little Caesars Arena where it is expected that they will announce the awarding of a Detroit PWHL franchise, CBS News Detroit’s Rachel Hopmayer reports.
Minnesota Frost forward Britta Curl-Salemme has been suspended for one game and fined for two separate incidents, the PWHL announced Monday.
Ronja Savolainen and Fanuza Kadirova each scored a goal, Gwyneth Philips had 30 saves, and the Ottawa Charge beat the Boston Fleet 3-1 on Saturday night at the Tsongas Center to level the best-of-five series at a game apiece.
Jincy Roese scored 4:30 into overtime as the Minnesota Frost defeated the Montreal Victoire 5-4 in Game 1 of their Professional Women’s Hockey League semifinal series on Saturday.
In a league featuring proven offensive stars in Hilary Knight and Marie-Philip Poulin, and teammates Taylor Heise and Kendall Coyne Schofield, Pannek topped them all as the two-time defending Walter Cup champion Frost open the playoffs at Montreal on Saturday.
The Montréal Victoire won their second straight regular season title in the Professional Women’s Hockey League but with that comes great responsibility: choosing their first-round opponent.
Alina Müller and Jamie Lee Rattray scored less than two minutes apart late in the second period, and the Boston Fleet beat the Ottawa Charge 2-1 on Thursday night to begin a best-of-five semifinal.
The Boston Fleet are getting a boost just before the start of the Walter Cup Playoffs. Forward Olivia Mobley has been activated from long-term injured reserve and will be in the lineup on Thursday night for Game 1 of Boston’s semi-final series against the Ottawa Charge.
The PWHL playoffs get underway on Thursday as the Boston Fleet battle the Ottawa Charge in their first-round series from Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass.
After a five-month, 120-game regular season featuring record crowds, women’s hockey enjoying a significant post-Olympic boost and with more expansion on the horizon, the Walter Cup playoff semifinalists are made up exclusively of the league’s old guard.
The Vancouver Goldeneyes know they’ll never have another season quite like this. While the team missed the playoffs, players and staff alike are taking away many memories and lessons from Vancouver’s first PWHL campaign.
The No. 1 seed Montreal Victoire have selected two-time reigning champion Minnesota Frost as their opponent in the PWHL playoffs.
Lina Ljungblom’s shootout goal helped the Montreal Victoire beat the Seattle Torrent 2-1 on Saturday night in the final game of the regular season to secure the No. 1 seed in the Walter Cup playoffs for the second consecutive season.
A rocky end to the regular season hasn’t diminished the confidence the Minnesota Frost will take into the Professional Women’s Hockey League playoffs.
Defenceman Sophie Jaques scored at 1:24 of overtime to give the Vancouver Goldeneyes a 4-3 Women’s Professional Hockey League victory over the Minnesota Frost on Saturday.
Gwyneth Philips stopped 41 shots as the Ottawa Charge defeated the Toronto Sceptres 3-0 on Saturday to capture the final Professional Women’s Hockey League playoff berth.
The Ottawa Charge have clinched the fourth and final PWHL playoff berth as they took down the Toronto Sceptres 3-0 Saturday afternoon.
Jessie Eldridge scored the first of four Boston goals in the third period, and Aerin Frankel finished with 30 saves to lead the Fleet to a 4-0 victory over the New York Sirens on Saturday, closing out the regular season.
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