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1st PWHL game on New Year's Day reaches 2.9 million viewers

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The Professional Women's Hockey League says its first game reached 2.9 million viewers. The figure represents the combined number of viewers that saw a potion of the game's coverage, including pre-game content, through the league's three Canadian national broadcast partners.

New York's 4-0 win over host Toronto on Jan. 1 was shown on CBC, Sportsnet and TSN. The league said in a statement Friday that the game had a combined average audience of 879,000 viewers.

Ella Shelton scored the historic opening goal, Corinne Schroeder earned the first-ever shutout in front of a sellout crowd of 2,537 at Toronto's Mattamy Athletic Centre.

Tennis legend and PWHL board member, Billie Jean King performed the ceremonial puck drop alongside PWHL senior vice-president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford.

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