New Year’s Day marked a new era of women’s hockey, as the Professional Women’s Hockey League officially dropped the puck on their inaugural game in Toronto.
Toronto and New York went head to head in front of a sold-out crowd at what used to be Maple Leafs Garden– now the Mattamy Athletic Centre — to mark a fresh start in women’s hockey.
Today’s game marked the first of the P.W.H.L., a six-team league backed by American billionaire Mark Walter — with teams in Toronto, New York, Ottawa, Montreal, Boston and Minnesota — featuring more than 150 players representing 12 countries.
Announced just six months ago, the league had set themselves a firm deadline to start January 1st — so teams currently have no nicknames or logos and are only referred to by the city they play.
