Three Canadian franchises are included in the newly named Professional Women’s Hockey League that laid out details of where and how it will begin play in January 2024.
Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa will join franchises in Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul and the New York area in a 24-game schedule. Players will be allocated to those cities through a September free-agency period followed by a draft.
“Today, we look ahead to a phenomenal future for the PWHL,” said Jayna Hefford, a former Canadian national team player and the PWHL’s senior vice-president of hockey operations. “We have never seen more excitement and demand for women’s sports, and through
