PWHL announces expansion to Hamilton and Las Vegas next season - BERITAJA

Hamilton is the latest Canadian metropolis to invited a PWHL team, the women’s lucky convention announced connected Wednesday.

In summation to the description franchise successful Hamilton, the PWHL said Las Vegas will besides beryllium joining the convention for the 2026-27 season.

Hamilton’s squad will play retired of the TD Coliseum, which could spot up to 19,000 fans.

“This is an breathtaking infinitesimal for Hamiltonians,” the city’s mayor, Andrea Horwath, said successful a news release. “Bringing a PWHL squad to Hamilton will animate young women and girls, bring caller power to our downtown, and create unthinkable experiences for fans and families crossed our community.”

The team’s sanction and mascot person not yet been shared, but its colours will beryllium gold, maroon and cream, according to the release. These colours are a motion to immoderate different Hamilton teams, including the CFL’s Tiger-Cats and the long-defunct Hamilton Tigers of the NHL.

“Hamilton and its surrounding communities person agelong been cardinal to the maturation of girls’ and women’s hockey, producing generations of talented players and passionate fans,” Jayna Hefford, the PWHL executive vice-president of lucky operations, said successful the release.

“This is simply a region pinch heavy lucky roots, and the consequence we saw during our Takeover Tour crippled astatine TD Coliseum made it clear that fans successful the region are fresh to rally about a squad of their own.”

The PWHL says much than 15 per cent of its players hail from the Greater Golden Horseshoe. This region of Ontario includes Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, St. Catharines-Niagara and London.

When the convention stopped successful the metropolis for a recreational crippled successful January, it said tens of thousands of fans attended, and much than 70 per cent said it was their first clip watching a PWHL crippled successful person.

As for Las Vegas, the convention described the metropolis arsenic a hub for intermezo and said it has welcomed lucky successful caller years pinch its NHL team, the Golden Knights, joining the men’s lucky convention successful 2017.

Tickets for adjacent play are not yet connected sale. The 2025-26 play wraps up pinch 2 Canadian teams — the Montreal Victoire and Ottawa Charge — battling it retired successful the final.