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PWHL ice hockey team in Seattle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Seattle Torrent are a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle that compete in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). They are the league's second expansion franchise and joined in the 2025–26 season alongside the Vancouver Goldeneyes. The team plays home games at the Climate Pledge Arena, which is also home to the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League.
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History
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Seattle had been considered for a potential PWHL expansion team and hosted a league game during the Takeover Tour in January 2025. The Boston Fleet played the Montreal Victoire at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena and drew a crowd of 12,608.[1] Seattle also holds the record for the highest attendance at a non-college women's hockey game in the United States, having drawn 14,551 for a Rivalry Series game between the United States and Canada women's national teams in 2022.[2]
The PWHL announced their expansion to Seattle on April 30, 2025. The Seattle team is the eighth franchise in the league and second expansion team, part of the league's first round of expansion alongside the Vancouver Goldeneyes. The team began play in the 2025–26 season. They play their home games at Climate Pledge Arena, shared with the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League and Seattle Storm of the WNBA. The team's colors, emerald green and cream, are described as similar to the Storm's.[3] The Kraken, who were part of the bidding group alongside arena operator Oak View Group, assist the PWHL team in marketing and business operations.[4] On June 20, 2025, former Oshawa Generals head coach, Steve O'Rourke, was named the team's inaugural coach,[5] and on November 14, Hilary Knight was named the inaugural team captain.[6]
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Team identity
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As part of the expansion announcement, the team's initial colors were revealed to be emerald green and cream. Like the original six teams of the PWHL did during the 2023–24 PWHL season, the team temporarily operated as PWHL Seattle during the 2025 offseason until the Torrent identity was announced.[3] Given their close proximity to one another, the team is expected to have a rivalry with PWHL Vancouver.[7][3]
On October 21, 2025, Seattle released their inaugural season jerseys, which feature the city name diagonally across the front. The jerseys are produced by Bauer. It was announced that team names and logos would be revealed prior to the beginning of the season and brought into circulation during the 2026-27 season.[8] Hailey Salvian, a reporter for The Athletic, reported that Seattle had record-breaking sales after the commercial release of the inaugural jersey, with the most single-day sales recorded in PWHL history for the jersey.[9]
The team's name and identity, the Seattle Torrent, were officially unveiled on November 6, 2025.[10][11] The team's colors were updated and expanded to represent the ocean and river waters, the mountains and igneous rock, and the trademark cloud cover of the Pacific Northwest: Slate green (a dark teal), River blue (a blue-grey) and Glacier blue (an icier blue-grey), Foam (a sandy cream), Haze grey, and Basalt black.
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Arena
The team plays home games at Climate Pledge Arena, which it shares with the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League and Seattle Storm of the WNBA. It has a seating capacity of 17,151, making it the second-largest arena in the PWHL by capacity.[3] The team's training facility is the Kraken Community Iceplex in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle, which it shares with the Kraken.[7]
Players and personnel
Current roster
- As of November 21, 2025[12]
Reserves
All-time players
Head coaches
- Steve O'Rourke, 2025–present
Assistant coaches
- Christine Bumstead, 2025–present[14]
- Clayton Beddoes, 2025–present[15]
First-round draft picks
- 2025: Jenna Buglioni (8th overall)
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Broadcasting
The team announced agreements with KZJO (Fox 13+) and KONG to broadcast its games on television, with the majority of games airing on KZJO and six airing on KONG.[16]
References
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