Fans gather to watch the Montreal Victoire and the Toronto Sceptres warm up before a PWHL hockey game in Vancouver, on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Toronto Sceptres and Ottawa Charge take the ice before first period PWHL action in Edmonton on Sunday, February 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
TORONTO - The Professional Women's Hockey League will make its regular-season debut in Calgary, Halifax, Hamilton and Winnipeg this season as part of the 2025-26 Takeover Tour.
The league announced Monday the sites for 16 neutral-site games for its third season, including eight in Canada.
The league will also return to Edmonton and Quebec City, which hosted games in the inaugural Takeover Tour last season.
Edmonton and Halifax will host two games, with the other ºÃÉ«tv neutral site hosting one.
Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Washington and Denver will host the eight neutral-site games in the United States.
The PWHL played nine neutral-site games last season, including one in Seattle and another in Vancouver. Those cities were later granted the league's first two expansion teams.
The Takeover Tour will open Dec. 17 at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax as the Montréal Victoire face the Toronto Sceptres. The arena will also host the Ottawa Charge and Boston Fleet on Jan. 11.
Rogers Place in Edmonton welcomes the Vancouver Goldeneyes and Minnesota Frost on Dec. 27 and the Fleet and Goldeneyes in the Takeover Tour finale on April 7.
The Seattle Torrent take on the Sceptres Jan. 3 at TD Coliseum in Hamilton, Vancouver faces the Victoire Jan.11 at Quebec City's Videotron Centre, Winnipeg's Canada Life Centre hosts Montreal and Ottawa on March 22, and Toronto faces Ottawa at Calgary's Scotiabank Saddledome on April 1.
The PWHL says last year's Takeover Tour drew 123,601 fans over nine games.
This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Nov. 10, 2025.
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