In Tessa Bonhomme's era, just being a professional hockey player was a sign of leadership. 'These are women who just did it for the love of sport and to continue working and making those small steps towards where we are today,' says Ian Kennedy, author of 'Ice in Their Veins: Women's Relentless Pursuit of the Puck.' 'That is, in essence, leadership that can't be overlooked and shouldn't be forgotten.'The success of today's PWHL is largely due to the foundation of women's hockey built by early fo

They were five hours in. Muscles seizing. Legs spent. On the Ottawa bench, a strange sight: mustard packets, taped in rows like emergency rations.The...

There will be signs. That much is guaranteed at any PWHL playoff game. They're pressed against the glass during warmups and waved for the arena video board...

Before Gwyneth Philips ever stepped into the PWHL spotlight, she learned how to wait - and how to be ready when the moment came. She spent the majority of her college career at Northeastern behind Aerin Frankel, a Patty Kazmaier Award winner and one

The inaugural season of Amazon Prime's hockey coverage is here – with a variety of programming the streamer is hoping will elevate the fan experience. Its much-anticipated docuseries 'Inside the NHL' gave viewers a never-before-seen look into the locker room of last year's Stanley Cup Finals, and now its weekly Monday Night Hockey matchup is aiming to cover unfolding storylines with a fresh slate of hosts and analysts.Among those are broadcasting veteran Andi Petrillo and the boundary-breaking B

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Most sports fans are drawn to a team. Some rally behind a league. But in women's sports, the connection often runs deeper. In a new report from Wasserman's The Collective, 50% of surveyed fans said they identify first as women's sports fans -

The 2025 PWHL Expansion Draft will fill out the rosters for Seattle and Vancouver, but each team already has a foundation. The 10 players inked during the...

Two new teams. Two new GMs. And just days to make some of the biggest decisions of their careers. With the PWHL's expansion signing window now open and the...

Each original PWHL franchise is about to lose a couple of cornerstone players because of the league's strict expansion rules.Here's how it works: Teams initially get to shield three top talents from being taken by Seattle or Vancouver. Once a club sacrifices two players in the expansion process, it can add a fourth to the protection list. Some marquee names will lead the West Coast entrants into battle and help them be competitive as soon as the puck drops in 2025-26.Expansion will reshape the l

Zoe Boyd knows she's part of history every time she takes the ice for Ottawa during the inaugural PWHL season. But there's a more personal reason she's excited to play professional hockey: This will be the first time since high school her mom will

It's only three games into the PWHL's second season, but Toronto Sceptres veterans agree on how the game has evolved from the league's inaugural campaign. It was almost as if the thought came to defender Renata Fast and forward Emma Maltais at the same time: This year is a lot more physical.'(We) were in the locker room the other day just looking at each other, being like, 'We're getting smoked out there, everywhere,'' Fast said this week. 'And I think we're two players who like to be physical.'

'There was never a moment when I didn't want hockey to be my job one day,' says Elizabeth Giguere, who will take the ice for PWHL New York when the puck drops on the league's inaugural season on Jan. 1.'I always said I wanted to play in the NHL, but I knew that wasn't possible,' says Giguere. Instead, she focused on the daily business of earning wins, making two NCAA finals appearances, taking home the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Award, and becoming the sixth all-time scorer in women's Division I hockey

Purple banners hanging from the rafters at PWHL games bear the slogan "Ice Time Earned." In the six-team pro league, contracts and playing time are scarce goods. Talent, tenacity, and toil get rewarded.The PWHL's emergence in 2024 changed women's hockey. Elite players from around the world united to attract unparalleled financial backing, attention, and fan support. Record crowds filled home venues and select NHL arenas to see Olympic stars, plus a wave of young phenoms, shine on a new stage. So

TORONTO - Any new rule is bound to have unintended consequences when it is first implemented. In its inaugural season, the PWHL allowed the first-place team to select its semifinal playoff opponent instead of hewing strictly to the standings. Regular-season champion Toronto had 24 hours to decide, and then the unintended consequences began.Toronto's choose-your-own-adventure became a series of misadventures for Minnesota, the team Toronto selected for the best-of-five series. After learning they

There were 23 jobs available in hockey for U.S. women as recently as last year, and hundreds vying to claim one. The candidates were elite players whose only career option in the sport was to make an Olympic team.'I had the word 'Olympics' written above the light switch in my room,' PWHL Minnesota's Taylor Heise says. 'Every time I turned that light off and turned my light on, that'd be something that I'd think about.'If grit, dedication, and talent were the deciding factors, Heise would've made

When Laura Stacey was growing up, rarely a family dinner went by when there wasn't a story shared about her great-grandfather and Maple Leafs legend King Clancy.'One of the bigger stories that everybody talks about is how he was traded from Ottawa to Toronto thanks to a horse,' she says. 'That was how they won enough money in order to get him to come to Toronto. That's something we always joke about. Thank goodness the horse won because that's what allowed us to be Leafs.'King Clancy during his