PWHL Breaks Women's Hockey Attendance Record With MSG Game
NEW YORK — The PWHL smashed its attendance record with a roaring, sold-out Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
The three-year-old league’s first game at MSG featuring the New York Sirens vs. the Seattle Torrent brought in 18,006 fans, breaking the previous record it set at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena in February. It marks the highest-attended game in women’s hockey history.
“This is, for a lot of women, and for me, the realization of a dream,” Billie Jean King said to reporters before puck drop Saturday. King is a PWHL cofounder alongside her wife and business partner Ilana Kloss.
The landmark game at MSG came sooner than expected. “We were not forecasting this in year three,” PWHL advisory board member Stan Kasten, who is a co-owner of the Dodgers and WNBA’s Sparks with PWHL owner Mark Walter, said in the pregame press conference as he sat beside King.
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