They are no-names no longer.
In a process nearly a year in the making, the Professional Women's Hockey League on Monday unveiled the nicknames and logos for each of its six franchises entering its second season.
There's a Fleet sailing into Boston, a Frost settling in Minnesota and Sirens in New York. For the teams north of the border, there will be Victoire in Montreal, a Charge in Ottawa and the wielding of Sceptres - yes, the Canadian spelling - in Toronto.
The long-anticipated names and logos arrive after time constraints - the league was founded in late June 2023 and began play on Jan. 1 - led to the PWHL spending its inaugural season referring to each team with a PWHL prefix, such as PWHL Minnesota, which won the first Walter Cup championship in May .
It was around that time when league executives Amy Scheer and Kanan Bhatt-Shaw officially signed off on the results in meeting a 10-month deadline to have the names and logos delivered to the PWHL's suppliers to be printed in time for Season 2, set to open in early December.
