The women’s hockey attendance record is set to fall again after a PWHL game between Montreal and Toronto, marketed as “the Duel at the Top,” sold out Bell Centre in Montreal, the biggest hockey arena in North America.
The 21,105 tickets for the April 20 game were sold out within 20 minutes of being available, and many are now going for over three times their original price.
The previous record was set earlier this season by a Toronto-Montreal meeting at Scotiabank arena in front of a crowd of 19,285.
Last month Montreal’s Erin Ambrose said, “To have the opportunity to play at the Bell Centre would be — historical, I think, is the best word to say. We’ve talked about how great our fans have been, the way they’ve showed up at Laval, the way they’ve showed up at Verdun, the way they showed up on the road, too, in Toronto.”
“We would love that opportunity and hopefully it can happen. I know that I’m crossing my fingers that we can be here. I mean, it would be pretty unbelievable to walk out there and kind of hear the crowd erupt. It would be something pretty monumental.”