This representation released by the PWHL connected Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, shows a logo for the Vegas Vanguards, the league's caller women's hockey squad successful Las Vegas. Photo by: PWHL via AP
Associated Press
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026 | 7:37 a.m.
The Professional Women’s Hockey League’s four caller enlargement teams yet person nicknames and logos to travel them successful preparing to marque their on-ice debuts adjacent month.
It’s crippled connected for the Detroit Clutch, San Jose Sea Lions, Vegas Vanguards and Hamilton Havoc.
The 4 markets were selected this outpouring successful expanding the PWHL from 8 to 12 teams, and doubling the league’s size since launching connected Jan. 1, 2024. Season 4 begins with an opening play acceptable for Dec. 5-6. The unveiling of the logos and nicknames connected Tuesday comes a period aft the PWHL revealed the teams’ colour schemes.
Vanguards was inspired by the pioneering tone that helped signifier the West and features the superior colors of cactus green, godforsaken golden and navy. The logo features a kit fox autochthonal to the Mojave Desert and known to thrive successful hard conditions. The fox's ears are shaped successful a ‘V’ to correspond Vegas.
Though merchandise featuring the logos and nicknames is present disposable for sale, they volition not beryllium incorporated connected the enlargement teams’ jerseys until adjacent play owed to the branding not being disposable erstwhile PWHL jerseys were placed for order. The 4 teams volition alternatively person their metropolis names printed crossed the front.
“Each team’s unsocial individuality was built with the tone and bequest of the assemblage a the center,” the PWHL said successful a quality release. “Women-led PWHL plan teams were astatine the helm of the process to make each city's marque identity.”
The league said the Vegas and San Jose logo designs included collaboration from the originative bureau of Doubleday and Cartwright.
— The Clutch offers a treble meaning successful being some a motion to Detroit’s automotive manufacture and the quality to present nether pressure. The circular achromatic and achromatic logo features an automotive instrumentality outlined successful reddish with the connection “Clutch” written crossed successful creation deco-inspired typography.
— The Sea Lions necktie successful the mammals populating the Bay Area waters with a circular logo featuring a oversea lion’s caput and torso emerging from the waves with a colour strategy of bluish and sunset orange. The sanction besides pays homage to the West Coast Negro Baseball Association’s San Francisco Sea Lions, who played successful 1946 and featured Toni Stone, the archetypal pistillate to play regularly successful a large men’s nonrecreational league, the league said.
— The league said the Havoc’s sanction was inspired by the "balance betwixt the forces of manufacture and quality successful Hamilton, arsenic alloy mills emergence alongside the earthy quality of the Niagara Escarpment” successful Ontario. The logo features Hamilton’s authoritative bird, the peregrine falcon, perched atop steel-forged lettering spelling retired Havoc, with a colour strategy of rusted steel, tempered golden and orange.
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