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The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) is here and has the hockey world buzzing. In the past, there have been multiple professional women’s hockey leagues, but all folded. The PWHL has replaced the previous leagues and is now the only league for women’s professional hockey. Consisting of six teams—Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston, Minnesota, and New York—each team will play 24 games and the schedule will run from Jan. 1 into June.
The PWHL brings exciting new rules that will be the talk of the hockey world:
One of the best parts is the availability of fans to watch the games. In Canada, the games will be divided between TSN, CBC, and Sportsnet. Outside of Canada, the games will be broadcast on the league’s YouTube channel.
Stay tuned to The Hockey Writers’ coverage of the PWHL all season long.
With the PWHL preseason starting today, it’s time to take a look at the new rules they announced yesterday, Tuesday, Nov. 19. During the PWHL’s inaugural season; they had a strong reception to their rules that differed from the NHL, such as the “Jail Break” rule and how they determine…
The Minnesota Frost’s first game of the season is under a month away now, and while there were still a handful of grades to hand out, it’s time to get excited about the preseason, which starts on Nov. 20. It’s easy to assume the handful of players who were left…
On Oct. 29, it was announced that the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) is expanding for the 2025-26 season. Adding two more teams following the completion of the upcoming campaign (which begins on Nov. 30), the league will be up to eight clubs when this change is made. The current…
After a long few months of waiting, the PWHL has officially announced the league schedule for each of its six teams. After its inaugural season of no names or logos and a short schedule, the league now has names and logos and a slightly longer schedule for fans to support….
The PWHL offseason has a couple of months left, which means we still have some Minnesota Frost report cards to hand out. We’re still moving through the forwards, and this time, we’ll take a look at Claire Butorac. She wasn’t a big points producer, but she impacted in other ways, like using…
Now that hockey leagues across the world are starting up, it’s time to give a refresher on the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). How can the six clubs across the PWHL improve upon their last campaign? Boston Fleet: Scoring Output While the Boston Fleet made a surprise run to a…
Now that PWHL Minnesota is officially the Minnesota Frost, per an announcement a week ago, it’s time to get back into their report cards. This time, we’ll be looking at Liz Schepers, who had a somewhat quiet regular season but found her way in the postseason. She may have had…
After over a year of waiting, the Professional Women’s Hockey League officially has the names and logos for its six teams. Each team’s color schemes stayed the same, but no jerseys just yet, it was stated they’ll be out later this year. According to Amy Scheer, the PWHL Senior Vice…
Just when it seemed like it was going to be quiet until the end of the offseason for PWHL Minnesota, they announced the hiring of a new general manager on Tuesday morning, Sept 3rd, right after the long weekend. After firing Natalie Darwitz barely a week after they won the…
It’s time for another PWHL Minnesota report card, and that means it’s Brittyn Fleming’s turn to have her performance reviewed while some of her teammates, like Taylor Heise and Grace Zumwinkle, still have to wait. She played most of the season, and while she didn’t make a big impact offensively, she didn’t…
The latest report card for PWHL Minnesota started with the forwards, and this report card will continue that as we look at Brooke Bryant and her performance throughout the season. She wasn’t on the top line and didn’t get much ice time, but she kept grinding to make an impact….
Now that the defender report cards for PWHL Minnesota are finished, it’s time to move on to the forwards. The team had quite a few scorers like Taylor Heise, Kendall Coyne-Schofield, and Grace Zumwinkle, but they also had a lot of behind-the-scenes players. This next report card is about one…
We’ve finally reached the last of the report cards for the defensive core on PWHL Minnesota, and that means it’s Sophie Jaques’s turn. She didn’t start the season on the roster for PWHL Minnesota, but she joined them just over a month into the season, and it was meant to…
It’s time for the report card of Lee Stecklein, one of PWHL Minnesota’s top defenders who helped lift the team the entire season. She had the most ice time of any PWHL Minnesota defender except Sophie Jaques after she joined Minnesota, and Stecklein used it. She was also a leader…
PWHL Minnesota still has plenty of players who need grades, and this report card is focused on the defensive core. This time, all of the attention was on Maggie Flaherty, one of the defenders who found her offensive side in both the regular season and the postseason. She made an…
The PWHL offseason continues to move along, and while the season is still a ways off, we still have more report cards for PWHL Minnesota to work through. Still on the defensive core, this would’ve been about Abby Cook, but she only played nine games and was traded partway through…
It’s time for another PWHL Minnesota report card, and while the focus is still on the defenders, this time, it’s on Dominique Kremer. Like her former teammate Emma Greco, she struggled offensively, which might have contributed to her only playing half of the regular season and none of the postseason. …
Now that both PWHL Minnesota goaltenders have received their grades, it’s time to move on to their defensive core. Some may be asking about PWHL Minnesota’s other two goaltenders, but since they didn’t really play, there’s not much to grade them on. Nicole Hensley and Maddie Rooney were the starters,…
The PWHL offseason is officially into the “dog days of summer,” with many areas feeling the heat during these summer months. Things have quieted down, and some players will still sign contracts here and there, but overall, we’ll have to wait a bit before things start to ramp up again. …