After PWHL Ottawa set a pro women’s hockey attendance record, only four days later Minnesota is set to break the record again. With big venues in play, records could become a season long trend.

When PWHL Ottawa set the new all-time record for attendance at a professional women's hockey game on January 2 with 8,318, it was a mark that took six years to break. The previous record was the CWHL's All-Star game in Toronto in 2017 which drew 8,122 fans. 

Ottawa's record will last only days as PWHL Minnesota is set to eclipse the mark on January 6.

The announced attendances for Boston and Toronto’s home openers this week were 4012 at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA, and 2537 at Mattamy Athletic Cetre in Toronto.

With capacity’s in multiple PWHL arenas including Minnesota’s Xcel Energy Center that can hold roughly 18,000 fans, it lends to seem as though attendance records could become a continued trend this season.

Other arenas that could house record setting attendance marks that the league will play in this season include New York’s Total Mortgage Arena (10,000) in Bridgeport and UBS Arena (17,250) and Montreal’s Place Bell (10,000) in Laval. There’s also still potential for neutral venue games in NHL facilities.