Ottawa’s new Professional Women’s Hockey League team will play at TD Place Arena, general manager Michael Hirshfeld said Friday.
The club will share the arena with its current tenant, the OHL’s Ottawa 67’s.
Hirshfeld added that a new dressing room will be constructed for the PWHL team at TD Place Arena.
“The facilities in this city, I think, are going to be best in the league,” Hirshfeld said during a video call with the media.
TD Place Arena, formally named the Civic Centre Arena, opened in late 1967 and is located on the grounds of Ottawa’s Landsdowne Park. It has a seating capacity of 9,836 for hockey, according to the city’s website.
The PWHL is a new league launched after the purchase of the Premier Hockey Federation by the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association, backed by an investment group that includes the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and tennis great Billie Jean King.
The league will launch with six teams — Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York and Minnesota. On Friday, the six general managers were announced and Minnesota was awarded the first pick in the upcoming player draft after a lottery. Free agency will open Friday afternoon, with each team permitted to sign three players before the draft on Sept. 18.
Team names and branding have yet to be announced. The inaugural PWHL season is slated to begin in January.
