The PWHL will stop in Buffalo, New York for their next PWHL Takeover Tour stop. While it's the leagues first visit to Buffalo, women's professional hockey has been supported in the city for years through the Buffalo Beauts.
The PWHL will stop in Buffalo, New York for their next PWHL Takeover Tour stop. While it's the leagues first visit to Buffalo, women's professional hockey has been supported in the city for years through the Buffalo Beauts.
The PWHL's Takeover Tour will visit Buffalo, New York this weekend. While it's the first time the PWHL will visit Buffalo, professional women's hockey has had a place in the city for years.
That's because the Buffalo Beauts called the city home from 2015 to 2023, as part of the NWHL, which later became the PHF. The PHF, a predecessor to the PWHL, had teams in the Boston, Minnesota, New York, Montreal, Toronto, and Buffalo markets, but when the league was acquired for the purposes of absorbing the player pool into the soon to be PWHL, only Buffalo was left without a franchise in the new league.
As founding members of the NWHL in 2015, the Buffalo Beauts made it to the Isobel Cup finals in their first four seasons, including winning the 2016-2017 title.
Perhaps more impressive is the list of alumni who wore the Beauts jersey over the years. That group includes past or present PWHL players like Savannah Harmon, Mikyla Grant-Mentis, Nicole Hensley, Shiann Darkangelo, Hayley Scamurra, Dominique Kremer, Kelly Babstock, Jess Healy, and Carly Jackson, and reserves Brooke Stacey, Amanda Leveille, and Emma Keenan. Other notable alumni include Shannon Szabados, Megan Bozek, Meghan Duggan, Emily Matheson, Blake Bolden, and, Dani Cameranesi.
Taylor Accursi, is and will always be the Buffalo Beauts' all-time leading scorer having compiled 53 points with the team in 66 games. Accursi has also donned the Beauts jersey for the third most games ever.
For the first four seasons of the Buffalo Beauts' existance, they played in the Harborcenter which is connected to KeyBank Center where the PWHL will play this stop on the Takeover Tour.
While it's the PWHL's turn in the city, Buffalo has been supporting women's professional hockey for years.