First PWHL game at Rogers Arena sells out [Video]

The first-ever pro women’s hockey game in Rogers Arena is expected to be loud, with a sold-out Vancouver crowd for the inaugural game.

Vancouver is hosting the PWHL game as part of the league’s nine neutral site stops this season.

The Toronto Sceptres and Montreal Victoire will go head-to-head when the puck drops at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Each of the PWHL’s six teams will play at least two neutral site games as part of the league’s schedule, which expanded from 24 games per team last season to 30 this year.

Billed as the “Takeover Tour,” it’s meant to increase fans’ access to women’s hockey.

The league consists of six teams: Toronto Sceptres, Ottawa Charge, Montréal Victoire, Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost and New York Sirens.

B.C. connection on both teams

Defender Rylind MacKinnon for Toronto calls the game a “full circle moment,” as she grew up in Cranbook, B.C.

The athlete says she first started playing …