At Montreal’s Bell Centre, a record 21,105 spectators had attended a professional women’s ice hockey game by the time the buzzer rang.
The pinnacle accomplishment of the six-team Professional Women’s Hockey League’s (PWHL) inaugural season was the game in April between Montreal and Toronto.
The league’s early success, which encompasses both the Canada, coincides with a surge in interest in women’s sports following the failure of earlier attempts to create a professional women’s league due to low attendance and budgetary constraints.
The league’s regular season games were seen by around 393,000 fans overall at locations in Boston, New York, Minnesota, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.
As per Jayna Hefford, senior vice president of hockey operations for the league, “this season has been a series of firsts, with a number of records broken,” the news said. “We continue to be excited and surprised.”
