On August 30th, the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) announced the exciting news of a women’s ice hockey team in Montréal.
The new team, called La Force de Montréal, will hit the ice in towns across Québec including Gatineau, Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup, Saint-Jérôme, and Sept-Îles. These towns will host La Force for “home games” to introduce the team to the province.
La Force will be based in Verdun outside Montréal at Centre 21.02, the high-performance hockey center for female athletes. Former Team Canada coach Danièle Sauvageau will lead the team.
Sauvageau says there needs to be a bridge in the gap between women’s university hockey and Canada’s national team. La Force looks to fill in that need for women’s ice hockey.
