The Professional Women’s Hockey League is in the final stages of evaluating expansion proposals, as the league ponders whether to add as many as two more teams to the six-team league as soon as next season.
An announcement on whether expansion will happen next season or not should be coming within the next four to six weeks, the league’s executive vice president of business operations, Amy Scheer, told reporters on Thursday.
Scheer announced last year that the league was open to expansion proposals, and told CBC Sports in November that more than 25 requests for proposals had gone out.
The league is using a weighted model to evaluate those proposals and is looking at things like economic opportunity, demographics, hockey community, media, geography, travel costs and infrastructure for a professional team.
That last item is the most important on the list, Scheer said on Thursday.
“Where will we play the games?” she said. “Is the …