The PWHL announced the upcoming game schedule this week for all of their inaugural six teams. The expanded regular season (up to 30 games per team from the inaugural season’s 24) kicks off Saturday, November 30th and wraps up Sunday, May 3rd, 2025.
You can check out the full schedule on PWHL.com, each team's sites or on their social channels.
Highlights:
The PWHL will observe three international breaks during the season–– from December 9 to 16 and February 3 to 10, with the final break taking place for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women’s World Championship, from April 3 to 25.
Walter Cup Rematch: The Minnesota Frost will face off against the Boston Fleet for the first time since the 2024 PWHL Finals. The rematch is set for Dec. 4 at 7:00 p.m. ET at the Tsongas Center, where Minnesota won the inaugural Walter Cup.
The Toronto Sceptres will host the Ottawa Charge at Coca-Cola Coliseum on New Year’s Eve at 7:00 p.m. ET.
We also have thoughts on some cool (and some weird, less cool) points about the schedules for specific teams.
Boston Fleet
Primary venue: Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell
Capacity: 6,496
Nicole Haase: Three of their TBD location games are weekend games, so hopefully those end up at feasible times and arenas. Lowell is too far away to easily get there on weeknights from Boston, so the number of mid-week games has to be frustrating for fans living in the city.
Liz Koetting: Boston GM Danielle Marmer said, “the Boston-Montréal rivalry lived up to the hype after last year’s intense playoff series.” Boston plays Montréal six times, the first game at Montréal on Monday, December 30th at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Minnesota Frost
Primary venue: Xcel Energy Center
Capacity: 17,954
NH: I really wish there was a Frost home game on March 22. The University of Minnesota is hosting the women’s Frozen Four that weekend with the semifinal games on Friday the 21st and the championship game on Sunday the 23rd. A Frost game on that free night between would have been an amazing tie-in. It feels like a real missed opportunity. I’d even have taken a game just before or after the Frozen Four, but Minnesota isn’t home until Wednesday, March 26.
The Frost have two travel-heavy road trips after the new year - a four-game stretch on the road from February 4-11 that is due to Xcel Center scheduling and a trip March 4-11 that heads to Toronto, Ottawa, and New York (New Jersey).
LK: They don’t play on opening day despite being the returning champs, though their season opener is also their home opener. It’s fine, I’m just SO EXCITED to see their new jerseys on their home ice!
Sam Gray: So is “good opening schedule for winning teams” a real thing or something I made up?
Montréal Victoire
Primary venue: Place Bell
Capacity: 10,062
LK: Oh, THEY get to play on day one, AND at home. How nice for them. (Totally not jealous at all.) That aside, I’m excited for them to play more games at a larger venue.
SG: Cool for them. I did see something about the many mid-week games being disappointing as their arena is in Laval - which is not easy for folks in Montréal to get to for a 7 p.m. weekday start time.
NH: The atmosphere at Montréal games last season looked amazing and I can’t imagine it won’t be even better this time around. I’m happy they’re in the bigger venue. The World Championship break is going to be interesting across the board, with just a few games when everyone returns and the Victoire’s looks particularly brutal, playing at Ottawa, hosting Boston and finishing against the Sirens in the final week.
New York Sirens
Primary venue: Prudential Center
Capacity: 16,755
LK: Whoa, the Sirens don’t get a home opener until their FOURTH game of the season! That’s wild.
SG: How rude! Not only because it means I have to wait until Dec. 18 to see them. Though I expect the crowd to be hyped!
NH: Don’t mind me, just dream-planning a pre-Christmas trip to NYC where I could see the Sirens play the Frost at Prudential Center and all the holiday decorations in the city.
Ottawa Charge
Primary venue: The Arena at TD Place
Capacity: 8,500
LK: Ottawa is hosting the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in December/January, which means Ottawa will be on the road from December 17 to January 7. They’re balancing that out with a longer homestand in February, but that’s still a long stretch to be away from their home rink.
NH: I generally hope everyone can end up with one home venue sooner rather than later, but think it’s great that 13 of 15 Charge games are at TD Place. I feel like it will be fun to see them play at Boston twice to end March and start April. Maybe it’s my background with college weekend series, but getting to see how teams adjust and face each other a second time makes for interesting viewing in my opinion.
Toronto Sceptres
Primary venue: Coca-Cola Coliseum
Capacity: 7,779
LK: This is a new home for Toronto, with more than double the capacity of their previous rink. I know I’ll be tuning in for their home opener on November 30th (versus Boston, 2:00 p.m. ET) to see how the city shows up for them!
SG: They’ll play a home game against the Boston Fleet for the second year in a row on Valentine’s Day, how fun!
NH: Spending New Year’s Eve watching them play Ottawa sounds like a dream, honestly.
And, another wild road trip. Toronto will play away at New York, Minnesota, and Montréal in the space of a week.
SG: NYE party at Nicole’s house.
NH: Party is probably way overselling it, but I will cook for you and provide drinks, so you know …
But overall there are just some absolutely brutal travel stretches. Some are three-game trips in a week, but January presents a bunch of back-to-backs where the road team has one day between games. That’s not ideal for recovery on its own, but add in having to travel cross country (and often internationally) and it’s really rough. And that’s not even taking the likelihood of travel delays into account. It seems unlikely that there will not be weather causing difficulties when the teams fly commercial and we’re talking about winter in the Northern U.S. and Canada.
All-in-all we are thrilled that we finally have a schedule, and opening games to look forward to! Time to start buying some tickets.
