- Justin Levine reported the PWHL is set to bring Hockey Night in Canada back on CBC
- The league has a “major announcement” booked for Thursday morning at the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Read below for who is speaking Thursday and why CBC still owns the name
Hockey Night in Canada might be coming back this winter, just not for the NHL.
The PWHL has a media event booked for Thursday morning at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, and a league bulletin sent to reporters promised an announcement that “will mark a significant milestone for professional women’s hockey.” Justin Levine reported Tuesday night that the reveal is a Canadian broadcast collaboration that would resurface Hockey Night in Canada and hand the PWHL a weekly primetime window for featured regular season games.
Here’s Levine’s report:
CBC never let the name go. When the public broadcaster and Rogers ended their sub-licensing arrangement in June, the NHL games walked out the door and the brand stayed put. Sportsnet rebranded its own Saturday package as Saturday Night Hockey, and CBC started filling roughly seven hours of open Saturday programming with curling.
Three people are scheduled to speak Thursday: executive vice president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford, executive vice president of business operations Amy Scheer, and PWHLPA president Laura Stacey. Stacey won the Walter Cup with the Montreal Victoire in May.
Check out the Victoire’s title moment:
Business has been good. The PWHL drew 1,116,497 fans across 120 regular season games in 2025-26, its first million-fan season, and average attendance climbed 28 percent to 9,304 a night. It also packed 18,006 into Madison Square Garden for a U.S. attendance record.
Take a look at what the Garden sounded like:
Expansion pushed the league to 12 teams for this season, with Hamilton, Detroit, Las Vegas and San Jose joining Seattle and Vancouver. Five of the 12 are based in Canada. Puck drop on 2026-27 comes in December, and none of this is official until Thursday morning.
