As the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) continues to grow, its Takeover Tour™ is bringing elite women’s hockey to cities that don’t yet have a league franchise. This season’s expanded neutral-site schedule includes 16 games outside the league’s current home markets, giving fans from Halifax to Dallas a chance to catch top-tier pro hockey live. PWHL
The PWHL — with its eight existing teams in established markets — is using the Takeover Tour as both a fan-building and market-testing tool. Stops this year include Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Halifax, Hamilton, Washington, D.C., and Winnipeg, along with return visits to Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, and Québec City.
These neutral-site games are strategically placed in hockey-supportive regions without current PWHL teams, helping grow the league’s footprint and gauge interest ahead of future expansion opportunities. The league’s first tour drew massive crowds — over 123,000 fans — showing there’s serious appetite for women’s pro hockey beyond its six original markets.
One of the tour’s most intriguing stops is Hamilton, Ontario, where the newly renovated TD Coliseum will host a PWHL Takeover Tour game on Jan. 3, 2026, featuring the Seattle Torrent vs. Toronto Sceptres. The 18,000-seat arena, which just completed a dramatic $300 million transformation this fall, boasts state-of-the-art lighting, seating, and sound — making it a perfect showcase for high-quality women’s hockey. Local efforts to center the PWHL Takeover Tour logo on the ice underscore Hamilton’s readiness to support major pro hockey events and signal the city’s ambition to one day land a permanent PWHL franchise.
Whether you’re in a traditional hockey hotbed or a city waiting for its own franchise, the Takeover Tour is bringing the action closer to home — and helping map out where the PWHL might head next.
Almost assuredly the PWHL is keeping a keen eye on Quebec City, the hockey-mad town that NHL president Gary “I’m American” Bettman refuses to consider each and every expansion opportunity. And yet, towns that wouldn’t know a hockey puck from a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (Phoenix, Utah and the twice failed city of Atlanta to name a few) get his full blessing. Surely the ladies are smarter than that?
