The Montreal team will face the Toronto team on the Bell Center ice rink on April 20, the Professional Women’s Hockey League announced in a press release Tuesday morning.
With a capacity of more than 21,000 spectators, the Bell Center will be the sixth NHL amphitheater to host an LPHF game this season. Tickets for this part, which will be known as the “Duel at the Summit”, will go on sale from March 20, it was specified in the press release.
“During the “Duel at the Top”, the Montreal team, which has already played in front of four of the five best crowds of our inaugural season, will have the chance to write a new page in the history of women’s hockey at the Bell Center in breaking the world attendance record previously held by the Toronto team,” recalled LPHF vice-president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford.
“Our fans have been asking us for this game at the Bell Center since the start of the season and we are happy to be able to give them what they want. It’s exciting to know that we will be playing in the largest hockey arena in North America, and I am sure that our fans will be louder than ever,” added the general director of the Montreal team, Danièle Sauvageau. .
This match between the Montreal team and the Toronto team will replace the one scheduled for April 21 at the Verdun Auditorium. Ticket holders for this game will be contacted before tickets go on public sale for the April 20 match at the Bell Centre.
In the meantime, the Montreal team and the Toronto team must cross swords this weekend at PPG Paints Arena, the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
On February 16, the match between the Montreal and Toronto teams which was presented at Scotiabank Arena, the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, set an attendance record for women’s hockey with a crowd of 19,285. people.
Prior to the LPHF, the North American record for a regular season women’s professional hockey game was 5,938 spectators, set on December 10, 2016, in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) when the Montreal Canadiennes hosted the Inferno from Calgary to the Bell Centre.