PWHL Vancouver
{{short description|PWHL ice hockey team in Vancouver}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
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| city = Vancouver, British Columbia
| league = PWHL
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| founded = {{Start date|2025|4|23}}
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| arena = Pacific Coliseum
| colours = Pacific blue and cream
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| owner = Mark Walter Group
| GM = TBA
| coach = TBA
| captain = TBA
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| website = {{URL|https://www.thepwhl.com/en/teams/vancouver}}
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PWHL Vancouver is an upcoming professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that will compete in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). They are the league's first announced expansion franchise. The team will play home games at the Pacific Coliseum.
History
= Founding =
On April 23, 2025, it was announced that the PWHL's first expansion franchise would be located in Vancouver and would begin play in the 2025–26 season.{{cite news |title=PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE EXPANDS TO VANCOUVER |url=https://www.thepwhl.com/en/news/2025/april/23/professional-womens-hockey-league-expands-to-vancouver |url-status=live |language=en}} The team's home arena was announced to be the Pacific Coliseum, former home of the WHL’s Vancouver Giants and the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks.{{Cite news |last=Salvian |first=Hailey |date=April 23, 2025 |title=PWHL announces expansion to Vancouver for 2025-26 season: ‘A great day for women’s sport’ |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6302038/2025/04/23/pwhl-vancouver-expansion-2025-26-season/|work=NY Times |publisher=}}
The announcement came after speculation that the PWHL would expand to Vancouver as well as to Seattle.{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Patrick |date=April 17, 2025 |title=PWHL expected to announce Vancouver expansion team next week |url=https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/pwhl/pwhl-vancouver-announcement-next-wednesday}}{{Cite news |last=Didion |first=Alex |date=April 18, 2025 |title=Report: PWHL 'expected' to announce Seattle team after Vancouver club |url=https://www.king5.com/article/sports/pwhl-seattle-reports/281-1c552856-c1d5-498a-83b2-366928df1eac}} The rumoured choice of an expansion to Vancouver came after the PWHL Takeover Tour, a series of exhibition games staged at neutral venues across cities in Canada and the United States, drew a record-breaking 19,038 spectators to the Rogers Arena, home of the Vancouver Canucks, on January 8th, 2025.{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Ian |date=March 21, 2025 |title=PWHL expected to announce Vancouver expansion team next week |url=https://thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/ranking-the-pwhl-takeover-tour-stops-from-first-to-worst}}
As part of the expansion announcement, the team's colours were revealed to be Pacific blue and cream. The PWHL also announced that the team would operate under the temporary designation of PWHL Vancouver until a permanent brand identity is announced at a later date, similarly to how the "Inaugural Six" played the 2023–24 PWHL season under temporary identities.{{Cite news |last=Salvian |first=Hailey |date=March 21, 2025 |title=Why the PWHL is launching with temporary jerseys — and without team names or logos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5082370/2023/11/22/pwhl-jerseys-team-names-logos/}}
External links
- {{Official website|https://www.thepwhl.com/en/teams/vancouver}}
References
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{{PWHL Vancouver}}
{{Professional Women's Hockey League}}
{{Professional Women's Hockey seasons}}
{{British Columbia Sports}}
{{Vancouver Sports}}
Category:Ice hockey clubs established in 2025
Category:Professional Women's Hockey League teams
Category:Women's ice hockey teams in British Columbia
Category:2025 establishments in British Columbia