Published for Torrent fans — October 2026
By Toxlay Sports Editorial Team · Last updated October 21, 2026
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The Club
The Seattle Torrent play at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington — capacity 17,151 — in slate green, shadow and river blue and glacier blue. The franchise arrived as an expansion team in 2025-26 and takes the Torrent name for its second season, with general manager Meghan Turner building the roster and a fan base that instantly became one of the league’s great stories. Expansion teams are supposed to struggle for oxygen in a new market. Seattle did the opposite: it became the toughest ticket in the league before it became any good at all, which tells you the city was never the problem to solve.
What comes next is the interesting part. Year one proved the demand; year two has to prove the hockey, with a promoted head coach, a vacant captaincy and a core that the club has deliberately chosen to build around. Searching for a Seattle Torrent jersey, the latest Torrent schedule or Torrent tickets? Start with the question every fan asks: when do the Torrent play — because this winter, Climate Pledge Arena is where the league’s loudest crowd goes looking for its first playoff race.
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Start with the number nobody in Seattle enjoys: eighth place — last in the league — with 31 points, and no playoff berth in the franchise’s inaugural season. Expansion growing pains are real, and the Torrent took their lumps against veteran teams that had been together for years. On the ice, year one was about survival: learning the league’s pace, finding out which pieces fit, and identifying who belonged in the long-term picture.
Then look at the number everybody in Seattle loves: an average crowd of 12,875 — the best attendance in the entire league. A last-place expansion team out-drew the champions, the contenders, everyone. That is not novelty; novelty fades by February. Seattle fans showed up all winter, in the rain, for a team learning on the job — and in doing so they made Climate Pledge Arena one of the league’s genuine home-ice advantages waiting to be unlocked.
The on-ice bright spots were real, too. Alex Carpenter and Julia Gosling co-led the team in scoring with 20 points apiece — Carpenter with a team-high 12 goals, Gosling with a team-high 14 assists — giving the Torrent a genuine top end to build around. The raw materials of a good team exist here. Year one was about finding them; the front office spent the summer deciding who gets to grow with them.
Best Players Right Now (2026-27 Roster)
Alex Carpenter, Forward (#25) — Alternate captain, and now the face of the franchise. Carpenter co-led the team with 20 points and a team-high 12 goals in year one — and Seattle protected her and re-signed her for 2026-27, the clearest possible statement about who this team is built around.
Julia Gosling, Forward (#88) — The other half of the scoring lead: 20 points with a team-high 14 assists. Gosling’s playmaking makes the Torrent’s top six dangerous even on nights when the finish isn’t there.
Emily Brown, Defense (#11) — Alternate captain and the steady hand on the blue line. On a young team resetting its leadership, Brown’s minutes and voice matter more than ever this season.
Hannah Murphy, Goaltender (#83) — The last line for a team that expects to take a step. Goaltending is where expansion teams usually bleed; Murphy’s job is to make Seattle the exception.
Danielle Serdachny, Forward (#92) — A scoring forward who gives the Torrent a second wave behind Carpenter and Gosling. Seattle’s depth scoring was a year-one weakness; Serdachny is part of the answer.
Abbey Murphy, Forward (#18) — A U.S. national team star signed out of the 2026 draft class, and one of the most exciting arrivals anywhere in the league. If her game translates quickly, Seattle’s ceiling rises in a hurry.
One honest note: the leadership room looks different this year. Inaugural captain Hilary Knight left for Detroit in the expansion shuffle, and goaltender Corinne Schroeder moved to San Jose — so the captaincy sits vacant heading into the season, with Carpenter and Brown wearing the alternate-captain letters while the next leader of this team emerges.
Star Spotlight: Stories You Should Know
The first story is the crowd, because it might genuinely be the most remarkable thing about this franchise. Twelve thousand, eight hundred seventy-five fans a night — for an expansion team that finished last. Seattle did not wait for a winner to commit; it committed first and asked the team to catch up. That flips the usual expansion script completely: instead of a front office begging a market for patience, the Torrent owe their market a product. Every visiting player in the league already knows Climate Pledge is loud. The day the team matches the building, Seattle becomes the road trip nobody wants.
The second story is continuity inside the change. When the captain left and the coach changed, the Torrent could have torn everything down — instead, they protected and re-signed Carpenter, kept Gosling’s playmaking at the center of the attack, and promoted assistant coach Christine Bumstead to head coach in the summer of 2026, succeeding inaugural coach Steve O’Rourke. Bumstead knows this room, this market and exactly what year one lacked. Her first season behind the bench is the hinge the whole franchise swings on.
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This Season (2026-27): Year Two, and the Rise Begins on the Road
The season opens on December 5, 2026, and Seattle’s first act is a road trip: the Torrent start at Vancouver on December 5 — the Pacific Northwest rivalry opening the entire league’s season — then visit expansion San Jose on December 9 and the two-time champion Minnesota Frost on December 13. Three away games against a rival, a newcomer and a dynasty is a demanding first week, but it is also a fast education for Bumstead’s group: by mid-December, Seattle will know precisely what it is.
The payoff comes right before the holidays. The home opener is December 20 against expansion Las Vegas at Climate Pledge Arena, and it launches a four-game homestand that reads like a playoff sampler: Boston on December 23, Minnesota on December 27, and New York on New Year’s Eve — the Torrent’s shot at the team that beat them in that record-crowd Garden game last April. With four playoff spots available in the six-team West, a strong December at home could put Seattle in a race its fans have been ready for since day one. The building held up its end last season. Now it’s the team’s turn.
Last season’s standings show how open the West really is. Vancouver — the conference’s other second-year team — managed 37 points to Seattle’s 31: a gap of a couple of good weeks, not a gulf. With three brand-new expansion clubs joining the conference and four of six teams reaching the playoffs, the Torrent’s route to the postseason does not require a miracle. It requires beating the teams at their own stage of the build, protecting the league’s loudest home ice, and arriving at the league’s first All-Star break, in March 2027, as a problem the rest of the West is genuinely worried about.
Mark Your Calendar: Upcoming Games to Watch
Check the Torrent schedule and grab Torrent tickets early — a rivalry opener, a long road start and a massive holiday homestand:
- December 5 — at Vancouver Goldeneyes: The season opener at Pacific Coliseum (3 p.m. ET). The Pacific Northwest rivalry the league itself bills as a headline act, on the season’s very first day.
- December 9 — at San Jose: A first look at expansion San Jose at the SAP Center — two young franchises measuring each other in week one.
- December 13 — at Minnesota Frost: The hardest road test in the West: two-time champions, in their own building, on their home opener (2 p.m. ET).
- December 20 — vs Las Vegas: The home opener at Climate Pledge Arena (7 p.m. ET). The league’s best crowd finally gets its team back, against the expansion club from the desert.
- December 23 — vs Boston Fleet: The award-loaded Fleet visit two days before Christmas — Frankel, Keller and Winn against the loudest house in hockey.
- December 27 — vs Minnesota Frost: The champions return the visit. A second December meeting with the West’s standard-bearers, this time on Seattle’s ice.
- December 31 — vs New York Sirens: New Year’s Eve at Climate Pledge, and a grudge: New York beat Seattle in the record 18,006-fan Garden game last spring. Payback comes with a countdown.
Biggest Rivalries — The Wars
1. Vancouver Goldeneyes — the Pacific Northwest war. The league bills it as a rivalry because it already is one: two proud hockey cities, one stretch of coast, and a season opener between them on December 5. Every meeting will feel personal from the first puck drop of the season.
2. Minnesota Frost — the conference standard. The two-time champions are the team every Western club is chasing, and Seattle sees them twice in December — the 13th in St. Paul and the 27th at Climate Pledge. Those two games are Seattle’s report card on whether the rise is real.
3. New York Sirens — the record-game rematch. Seattle was the visiting team on the loudest night in U.S. women’s hockey history, losing a shootout in front of 18,006 at Madison Square Garden. On December 31, the Sirens walk into Seattle’s building, where the Torrent crowd has been waiting eight months to return the favor.
Frequently Asked Questions
When do the Seattle Torrent play next?
The Torrent open the 2026-27 season on Saturday, December 5, 2026, at the Vancouver Goldeneyes (3 p.m. ET), and play their home opener at Climate Pledge Arena on Sunday, December 20, against Las Vegas.
Where do the Seattle Torrent play their home games?
At Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle (capacity 17,151) — where the Torrent led the league in attendance in their inaugural season.
Who is the Seattle Torrent’s captain?
The captaincy is vacant heading into 2026-27: inaugural captain Hilary Knight moved to Detroit in the 2026 expansion shuffle. Alternate captains Alex Carpenter and Emily Brown lead the team in the meantime.
Where can I buy Seattle Torrent fan gear?
Toxlay Sports offers fan-inspired apparel for Torrent supporters — fan-designed gear made for real fans. Note that fan-inspired apparel is not official PWHL licensed merchandise.
Sources: ThePWHL.com, The Hockey News, ESPN — team schedules, rosters and records checked October 2026.
Ride the current, Seattle — year two is where the Torrent turns.
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Sources: ThePWHL.com, The Hockey News, ESPN — team schedules, rosters and records checked October 2026.
Ride the current, Seattle — year two is where the Torrent turns.
