The PWHL will “soon be announcing an expansion team in Vancouver, likely to play at the Pacific Coliseum,” according to a source. A “major press conference related to a historic announcement in sport for Vancouver and British Columbia” is scheduled for next Wednesday, with it expected to be about “pro women’s hockey returning to Vancouver.” The PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres and Montreal Victoire played at Rogers Arena in January and drew 19,038 fans, a “larger crowd than any Canucks game this season.” It is “expected that a PWHL expansion team for Seattle will also be announced in short order” (Vancouver PROVINCE, 4/17). The Vancouver team will be the PWHL’s first expansion franchise, with the team “expected to play in 2025-26.” In October, the PWHL said that it was “exploring the addition of as many as two new franchises.” The league received “more than 20 proposals from interested parties and markets seeking to bring a PWHL team to their city.” It stands to reason that a second team “could be geographically close to Vancouver for cost-related reasons” (THE ATHLETIC, 4/17).
Report: PWHL eyeing Vancouver expansion team
