When the Montreal Victoire and Ottawa Charge skate out to a packed Videotron Centre in Quebec City on Sunday, it will be the culmination of more than a year’s worth of work to bring professional women’s hockey to the city.
For the people who’ve worked to sell Quebec City to the PWHL, they hope it’s the first game of many.
As the league considers whether to expand by as many as two teams as early as next season, Quebec City has made a pitch to be considered.
The city would seem to check a few boxes on the league’s checklist, including geography, a strong fan base, and an arena built with the idea that a professional team could someday be the anchor tenant.
“I can only say that we are in that process of exchanging information,” Martin Tremblay, the president of Gestev, the company that manages and operates the city-owned …