Ice Hockey

1/21/2025 |  Play Hockey Announces Partnership with Base Sports Group (SportsTravel) Youth hockey events organizer Play Hockey has announced a partnership with Base Sports Group as its first sponsorship agency partner in the United States.
Winnipeg-based Play Hockey will host 107 youth events in seven countries, five provinces and 15 states during the 2025 season. Over 100,000 athletes participated in Play Hockey events in 2024.

1/21/2025 |  Kings honor firefighters, first responders during 1st home game back after wildfires (Associated Press (AP)) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Kings honored firefighters and first responders in the first game back in their downtown arena since the catastrophic wildfires that devastated large parts of Los Angeles.
The Kings were scheduled to face Calgary on Jan. 8, but that game was postponed due to the fires. Los Angeles then played its next five games on the road before returning home.

1/20/2025 |  Spain: Great success for ice rink at Metropolitano and return of butterflies (StadiumDB.com) Madrid On Ice attracted more than 100,000 visitors, turning the Riyadh Air Metropolitano into a winter wonderland. At the same time, there are plans for the return of... butterflies and a botanical park around the stadium. 

1/17/2025 |  PWHL’s neutral site Takeover Tour drawing attention and `We want a team’ chants as expansion looms (Associated Press (AP)) Three neutral site stops down and six to go, the Professional Women’s Hockey League is quickly discovering how popular it has become at a time the second-year six-team league is considering expanding by as many as two more franchises by next season.

1/15/2025 |  PWHL Takeover Tour could offer brands similar opportunities to the WNBA’s Canadian games (Gist Sports, The) As discussed on yesterday’s episode of The GIST of It, the PWHL’s nine-city Takeover Tour is only three stops in, but there’s already plenty of discussion on where the league will establish its first two expansion franchises later this year.