Young women provided information to the professional women’s hockey league in a record crowd.
“PWHL Detroit needs a team”, printed on one side of the logo.
The six teams’ PWHL may expand next season (year three) and may tour the list.
Detroit tried to improve its chances of landing a team, attracting 14,288 fans Sunday night to break attendance record for American professional women’s hockey games as New York beat Minnesota 4-1 at the Little Caesar Arena.
The game is part of PWHL’s takeover of potential expansion venues, and its latest stop is a hit single, and a year later, 13,736 fans watched a woman play professional hockey on the same ice at her home in Detroit’s Red Wings.
Just as impressive as turnout in a pair of PWHL games in Detroit, it has competition.
Denver attracted 14,018 fans, and many cheered with “We want a team!” To create a record of previous American professional women’s hockey matches in another neutral game two months ago.
In addition to Denver, others on the run include Seattle, Vancouver and Quebec, and the PWHL is expected to announce a decision in early April.
“Everything is a game,” said Frost forward Kendall Coyne Schofield. “It’s great, but I think it’s also about demand and that’s been a long time.
“With the right support, resources, investment and platform, everything is possible.”
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A year ago, the global attendance record for women’s hockey was 21,105 players playing PWHL between Montreal and the Canadian Arena.
Seeing the Canadian Arena selling “surreal”
In the first phase of the Frost game in Detroit, more than one million fans have participated since the league debuted last season since its league debut. Players from both teams have provided hockey to fans in hockey commemorating this milestone.
“Sometimes, I don’t think it’s true,” said Amy Scheer, executive vice president of PWHL. “When we started last year, we really didn’t know what would happen. It would be here to break the U.S. record in 16 months,” said Amy Scheer, executive vice president of PWHL. [for a pro women’s hockey game]it is surreal to see the Canadian arena sold out.
“Hockey, every game is incredible. I think on the business side, we have a great show for the fans. Fans love it and they are really humble.”
Scheer has been cautiously not providing tips on which of the league’s leading 20+ markets. She insists that the market size, potential support and equal opportunity for partnerships with local businesses.
Geography is not a problem either in the alliances of the United States (New York, Boston and Minnesota) and Canada (Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto) and is concentrated in the Northeast except Minnesota.
For the league, it might be beneficial to add two U.S. teams to help attract regional deals outside the U.S. TV copyright agreement, including the YouTube streaming agreement.
The league’s six teams are central running, and for the foreseeable future, it will be like this. Several private parties have completely rejected PWHL, but have been rejected.
St. Louis will hold its ninth and final stop on the takeover tour on March 29, when Ottawa accused of facing the Boston Fleet.
The regular season ends on May 3, with hockey dropping over the following week.
Last fall, the expansion was put on the table, and the league cautiously announced that it was considering expanding as many as two teams, and Scheer continued that this may be limited to one or no.
“We’ve done the assignments and research and hopefully we’ll find that answer in the next few weeks,” she said. “In a perfect world, I’d love to learn something in the next few weeks. When the board decides, they’ll let us know.”
