Golden Knights fully supportive of PWHL Las Vegas venture

T-Mobile Arena will be the home of Las Vegas' PWHL franchise. LAS VEGAS — There were about 200 youngsters, mostly girls, inside T-Mobile Arena Wednesday afternoon, and boy were they loud. Imagine what 10,000 girls will sound like?

The Las Vegas franchise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League will soon find out when the puck is dropped on the 2026-27 season come November. It’s going to be really loud, like Boy Band-Taylor Swift loud. The official announcement was made Wednesday that the PWHL was coming to Las Vegas, not for one of the league’s famous Takeover Tour stops, but for a full-fledged membership as the league’s 10th team.

Thursday, Hamilton, Ontario will be the 11th team and next week, San Jose is expected to be the 12th team. The excitement inside the rink where hours before Pavel Dorofeyev’s heroics lifted the Golden Knights to a 3-2 overtime win over Anaheim in Game 5 of their Stanley Cup Playoff series was felt Wednesday. There were pronouncements about “Walter Cup in Six” playing off of Knights owner Bill Foley’s declaration before the team’s inaugural season that hits team would win the Stanley Cup in six years, which they did in 2023.

And speaking of Foley, having the PWHL in Las Vegas comes with his full support. But the credit goes to John Penhollow, the team’s president of business operations. It was his persistence and desire to get this done that convinced the PWHL to come to this market.