{"id":331124,"date":"2025-11-30T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/331124\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:54:11","slug":"seattle-torrent-sets-u-s-womens-hockey-attendance-record-in-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/331124\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Torrent sets U.S. women\u2019s hockey attendance record in home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">PWHL club Seattle Torrent in their home opener on Friday \u201cset the record for largest attendance for a women\u2019s hockey game held in a U.S. arena, and for attendance for\u201d a PWHL game at a home venue. Climate Pledge Arena\u2019s capacity for hockey games is 17,151, so Friday\u2019s 16,014 spectators \u201cfell short of a sellout.\u201d But the crowd \u201ceasily topped the previous American pro women\u2019s attendance record of 14,288, set last year in Detroit\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/torrent\/seattle-torrent-drop-pwhl-home-opener-to-minnesota-before-record-crowd\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/torrent\/seattle-torrent-drop-pwhl-home-opener-to-minnesota-before-record-crowd\/ \">SEATTLE TIMES, 11\/28<\/a>). Friday\u2019s crowd also surpassed a 2017 women\u2019s college hockey game between St. Cloud State and Wisconsin that drew 15,359 to the Kohl Center. The Torrent\u2019s opponent on Friday, the Minnesota Frost, for the third time in 2025 \u201cplayed in front of a record crowd for a professional women\u2019s hockey game in the U.S.,\u201d though the previous two games were played at neutral sites, including Denver\u2019s Ball Arena and Detroit\u2019s Little Caesars Arena (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/record-crowd-of-16014-watch-frost-spoil-torrents-inaugural-game-3-0\/601535625 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/record-crowd-of-16014-watch-frost-spoil-torrents-inaugural-game-3-0\/601535625 \">MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 11\/28<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PWHL club Seattle Torrent in their home opener on Friday \u201cset the record for largest attendance for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,1767,1374],"class_list":{"0":"post-331124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-pwhl","10":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115639934340069669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}