After strong turnout for Rivalry Series, could Halifax become home to a PWHL team? [Video]

With a little more than two minutes left on the clock in a Rivalry Series game between Canada and the United States, Nova Scotian Blayre Turnbull scored the game-tying goal for the Canadians.

The home crowd inside Halifax’s Scotiabank Centre exploded with a chorus of cheers from 9,265 people.

Even the American head coach couldn’t help but think it was cool to see the crowd’s reaction to Turnbull scoring in front of her hometown crowd, even if it forced his team into a shootout.

“That was probably the loudest crowd and most into a game that we’ve seen in [the Rivalry Series] or even a world championship,” U.S. head coach John Wroblewski said after the game, a 2-1 shootout win for the U.S., in early February. 

“And that’s saying a lot because last year [at the world championship] in Utica, I thought our home crowd was just amazing. But that …