Overview
- A sold-out crowd of 18,006 watched the New York Sirens face the Seattle Torrent at Madison Square Garden, setting a new U.S. attendance record for women’s hockey.
- The matchup marked the PWHL’s debut at the arena and the first women’s professional hockey game there with fans in the stands.
- League officials say average attendance is up 25% year over year and that ticketed attendance is on pace to top one million this month.
- The new mark surpasses the 17,335 set in Seattle in February, the latest of eight U.S. records the PWHL has broken since launching in 2024.
- For New York, the showcase supports a playoff push, with the Sirens in sixth place with six games left and five points to make up after Sarah Fillier ended a long skid with an overtime hat trick.