Pro Women’s Hockey League explores new markets with neutral site games in Detroit and Pittsburgh
Associated PressBoston defenseman Megan Keller can already foresee the potential for expansion with the Professional Women’s Hockey League holding neutral site games in Pittsburgh and Detroit this weekend. And it’s something fans, Detroit hockey fans, I think deserve.” Though league executives have tapped the brakes on expansion talk, with nothing on the horizon until the 2025-26 season at the earliest, it hasn’t prevented them from testing potential markets as reflected in the PWHL’s dubbed “Takeover Weekend.” And the PWHL is already promising even more neutral-site games next season. While Detroit might be dubbed “HockeyTown,” what’s not lost on all three players is how the state’s two major colleges — Michigan and Michigan State — lack women’s varsity hockey programs. When the University of Delaware announced launching a women’s varsity program in December, Darwitz called it “amazing,” before quickly adding: “We still don’t have Michigan.” Count Minnesota forward Kendall Coyne Schofield among the boosters, given that her husband, NFL lineman Michael Schofield, played football at Michigan.