{"id":536604,"date":"2026-04-02T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:37:23","slug":"pwhl-takeover-tour-in-calgary-draws-packed-house-to-saddledome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536604\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL Takeover Tour in Calgary draws packed house to Saddledome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The PWHL Takeover Tour in Calgary on Wednesday night between the Ottawa Charge and Toronto Sceptres drew 16,150 fans to the Saddledome &#8212; a crowd that \u201cwas loud and cheered just as wildly for local products &#8230; as the fans in the stands usually do for their Calgary Flames favourites.\u201d The crowd \u201cwas young, too, especially for a game that had a\u201d 7:30pm MT start time \u201con a school night.\u201d Who knows \u201chow many thousands more would have been clamouring for tickets on a weekend matinee.\u201d There is \u201cno question that this week\u2019s stop in Calgary was a resounding success for the PWHL.\u201d Hundreds of fans \u201cshowed up for open practices at WinSport on Tuesday and thousands more attended Wednesday\u2019s game,\u201d where the Sceptres outlasted the Charge for a 2-1 win. The players \u201cdefinitely think\u201d a full-time, Calgary-based PWHL team is \u201cpossible\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/sports\/a-lot-of-great-to-be-had-here-calgary-pwhl-showcase-draws-16000-plus-fans-in-clear-sign-of-franchise-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CALGARY HERALD, 4\/1<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PWHL Takeover Tour in Calgary on Wednesday night between the Ottawa Charge and Toronto Sceptres drew 16,150&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4,1767,1374],"class_list":{"0":"post-536604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-pwhl","15":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116335387965761080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536604","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=536604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}