VANCOUVER — Marie-Philip Poulin still gets a little emotional as she stands at centre ice in a packed arena, hearing O Canada.
The hockey legend knows her eyes may get misty on Wednesday before her Montreal Victoire line up to face the Toronto Sceptres in Vancouver.
Now it will be the setting for another first as her league-leading Victoire and the Sceptres battle in the first Canadian stop of the PWHL's"Takeover Tour." "The demand is real," said Jayna Hefford, the league's senior vice president of hockey operations."I think we thought it was, and now we get to see it and feel it."
"Honestly, seeing kids wearing different jerseys with our names on with different logos, for us, that's what it's all about," she said."We want to grow the league. We're doing this by playing our best. We're just putting our best product on the ice, and it's been amazing to see.” Each stop will be evaluated on a number of factors, including economic potential, partnerships and facilities. Travel logistics will also be weighed, she said, as teams currently use commercial flights to get from one game to another.
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