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Seattle Torrent hit the ice, marking a women's sports milestone

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Seattle Torrent hit the ice on Friday for their first-ever regular season game. The Professional Women’s Hockey League expanded this season to Seattle, which now stands as only the second metro-area in the U.S. with pro women’s teams in hockey, soccer, and basketball. Seattle Now host Paige Browning is here to talk about the Torrent, and what to expect during this inaugural season.

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Hey, good morning. I'm Patricia Murphy. It's Tuesday. This is Seattle now.

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Seattle's newest pro sports team will take to the ice for the first time this Friday, the Seattle Torrent of the professional women's hockey league.

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Torrent is water, but also a torrent of rain, and we all know what that can do. That's strong. This is a torrent. Let's let's go coming up we'll talk with page

1:13.0

Browning about what to expect in their very first season and why women's sports

1:17.6

are taking off in Seattle but first let's get you caught up you better keep an eye out if you're parking in these areas of Seattle. The Seattle Times

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took a look at the nearly 650,000 parking tickets from the last two years. They found that of the top

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five areas, three are in or close to popular parks, Golden Gardens, Magnuson,

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and Seward. The other two are close to big bodies of water, just south of Lake Union and close

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to Portage Bay. The Times also found that the busiest ticket-writing days are Tuesday through

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Friday. Wednesday is the busiest, so maybe take public transit that day. The state rule that

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