Would locals support a professional women's hockey team in Vancouver?
They seem split in a new poll from Vancouver Is Awesome.
While the majority do support the idea of a new team, it's by no means a large margin. There's just a five per cent difference between those who think Vancouver should get a team and those who don't think so.
Oddly, it seems there's more support for a women's team in Vancouver from people outside of Vancouver, as there's a 10 per cent difference in the overall vote between the two options, with more than 55 per cent being in favour of a Vancouver team.
There have been a few attempts to start a professional women's hockey league over the years, but few have been as ambitious or have gotten the attention like the PWHL, which played its first games in January.
So far six teams are part of the young league, and much like the early days of the NHL, all of them are in eastern North America: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, New York, Boston and Minnesota. For the first season none of the teams have names and just go by the city they're in.
This weekend players from the PWHL participated in the NHL's All Star Weekend.
The expansion of the PWHL has been speculated on by sports media personalities, but no announcements have been made.
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 1167 readers and asked the question: Should Vancouver try to get a professional women's hockey team?
The poll ran from 1/28/2024 to 2/4/2024. Of the 1167 votes, we can determine that 601 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.87%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
