San Jose is now \u201cHockey City, USA\u201d.<\/p>\n
The PWHL is officially coming to San Jose, sharing ice with the NHL\u2019s San Jose Sharks, AHL\u2019s San Jose Barracuda, and all the youth and adult league teams at Sharks Ice, the largest indoor ice skating facility west of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s more proof that San Jose is definitely a hockey town,\u201d Sharks president Jonathan Becher said at the press conference at SAP Center on Tuesday afternoon. \u201cThere\u2019s another city that likes to call themselves Hockey City, USA. I think we\u2019re coming for that title.\u201d<\/p>\n
The unnamed PWHL San Jose team will begin play in the 2026-27 season, joining three other expansion squads, Hamilton, Detroit, and Las Vegas. The PWHL will become a 12-team league.<\/p>\n
The 2026-27 schedule hasn\u2019t been announced yet, but based on the 2025-26 campaign, PWHL San Jose should debut in late November.<\/p>\n
There is no timeline yet for the introduction of the team name.<\/p>\n
PWHL San Jose follows the success of pro women\u2019s basketball and soccer in the Bay Area, the Golden State Valkyries of the WNBA and Bay FC of the NWSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose is now \u201cHockey City, USA\u201d. The PWHL is officially coming to San Jose, sharing ice with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":809353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[325969,71948,329028,1322,2473,54567,329029,87936,329030,87937,293,329031,1328,86912,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-809352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-amy-scheer","tag-bay-fc","tag-brandi-chastain","tag-featured","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-hammerheads","tag-jayna-hefford","tag-jonathan-becher","tag-kristi-yamaguchi","tag-matt-mahan","tag-nhl","tag-pwhl-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sap-center","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}