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Three stops into its nine-city Takeover Tour, the PWHL is continuing to make history.
On Sunday, the league set a women's hockey attendance record in the United States with a raucous crowd in Denver. A crowd of 14,108 fans cheered on as the Minnesota Frost defeated the Montréal Victoire 4-2.
The PWHL's tour began last weekend with a lively crowd of 12,000 in Seattle. In Vancouver on Wednesday, 19,038 fans filled up Rogers Arena, with the sold-out crowd hitting just above the stadium's capacity for hockey games.
As for potential league expansion plans, the Denver crowd responded to the attendance total with a chant: "We want a team."
The league set the world attendance record twice last year, with two matchups in Canada between PWHL Toronto (now the Toronto Sceptres) and PWHL Montréal (now the Montréal Victoire). The first took place on Feb. 16 in Toronto's Scotiabank Arena in front of 19,285 fans; the second was on April 20, with 21,105 fans filling Bell Centre to capacity to watch the two Canadian rivals face off.
Next up on the tour is Quebec City on Jan. 19, followed by stops in Edmonton, Buffalo, Raleigh, Detroit and St. Louis over the coming months.
