First Look: Will the thrilling U.S.-Canada women's gold medal hockey game lead to more interest in the PWHL?

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Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host Richard Dutch, my producer's Patrick

Antonetti. This is the first look where we give you a little bit of a taste of the upcoming

longer form podcast that we're going to do. Our guest on this first look is Kenzie Malone.

She is the TSN Bureau reporter in Montreal covering the Montreal Canadians.

But for these purposes, she was the lead play by playboys for CBC's coverage of the women's

Olympic hockey tournament. So she called the gold medal game between the US and Canada

and all of the women's tournament in Canada. A really outstanding young broadcaster also calls

the PWHL. She wanted their lead broadcasters. You've heard her on the finals if you are in Canada.

And so this is a really a significant women's hockey expert. So I ask Kenzie if she thinks

there will be a carryover of momentum from the interest in the women's Olympic hockey tournament

to the PWHL. Because this is always interesting as to whether these sports, whether it's the

basketball or hockey, the team sports. Like if people are really into the Olympic coverage,

will they ultimately move from that Olympic coverage if they're not diehards in the NHL

in the NBA and then watch those leagues afterwards? So in our first look, Kenzie and I get into that

discussion, the full podcast will be out on Wednesday, March 11th.

I think ideally you always want to believe the Olympics are a showcase for your sport. And in

this case, it was a great showcase for women's hockey. What doesn't always happen though is that

the people who are into the watching the Olympics is the same for the men's side by the way in hockey.

They don't necessarily then go to the league and start following and being

ardent fans of the league. Sometimes it's sort of just the one-off because you're into the

nationalism and the patriotism and the stuff like that. But I do think for the PWHL, there's more of

an opportunity for the NHL because it's not as old a league. There's still a lot of people who've

never seen women's hockey. And if you watch the Olympics, you might have been like, wow, the skill

level of this game is incredible. So I wonder just from your perspective, understanding that you

call games for the league, do you think there will be a carryover from the Olympic Games and

the success of that tournament into the PWHL? Yeah, I think we're already seeing it. The New York

sirens who play in Prudential Center and have historically had a low attendance record just hit

first high. I think it was over 8,500 fans came out to their home game recently and that was

a new record attendance for them. Now, can you say that that is a direct relation of the Olympics?

I can't connect those dots, but you have to think just thematically and based on what you're

saying. Yes, it's drawing in more fans to want to not only maybe watch the games, but to attend the

game. So in terms of the viewership numbers, an increase there, but we're certainly seeing it

translate in terms of attendance numbers. I think what made this Olympics and that narrative

be successful is because for the first time after an Olympics fans now can go watch these athletes

on a regular basis. So just because of that sheer opportunity now, I think we're seeing it translate

because before it was these women come out of the woodworks, they compete and it's historic and

it's oh my gosh, the sochi Olympics. How did Canada do that? How did they come back and win?

And then they go back into hiding for four years and then they appear again and it's amazing

and shiny and oh my goodness. And then they disappear. So now there's no more disappearing.

And there's a place for fans across Canada and the United States to go and watch these women

on a regular basis. And we're seeing that. I think you look at the attendance numbers for these

upcoming games at Madison Square Gardens and at TD Gardens. The league has announced those games

as being sellouts. So those alone again, I think are building off of what we saw at the Winter

Olympics. And I think to that point of fans being more engaged now because of how great

these games were. We also had educated fans for maybe what the first time. So fans knew a lot of

these names coming in and we're interested to see the storylines of oh, they've been quiet in

the regular season. Can they find a way to get back to their scoring at the Olympics? And

that narrative now following, you know, who who who got a jump from that Winter Olympics? And

I'll use our John Wilson, the Swedish forward as an example was remarkable with the Swedish national

team bringing that experience now to the Toronto Sceptors scored two goals, her first two goals in

the PWHL following that Olympics. So there's an example of an athlete that that Olympic Games

allowed her to elevate her style of play and bringing it back to the PWHL. So I think there's

something to be said about how the international landscape the IHF needs the PWHL. And I also

think the PWHL needs the IHF. They need international competitions as well. So we see them work hand

in hand now. The woman's world has shifted to a November time slot to accommodate the league

because it's challenging. We see it in the NHL to break for an entire month and then pick back up

and keep going for a playoff push. So the the IHF and the PWHL are working hand to hand to make

sure these athletes are set up for success and the best possible schedule can be available for

these athletes. All right back in the studio. My thanks to Kenzie. As I said again the full podcast

will be out on Wednesday, March 11th. Check that out, especially if you're into women's professional

hockey, head to the archives. I won't go through all of them, but we had some really, really good

guests over the last couple weeks. I want to thank Patrick Anthony for all his hard work. Thanks

to everybody who brought us here for their sport. Thank you for listening. We'll see you soon on

the Sports Media Podcast.

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