Schedule for 1st PWHL season '98 per cent done' ahead of puck drop in January

Teams in the new Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) will wear jerseys with their city name across the chest for the league's inaugural season.

It's one item checked off a long list of things to do before the league's six teams begin play in January, and comes just in time for the start of training camps on Wednesday.

Teams will have two sets of jerseys during the first season. They'll wear dark jerseys on home ice, and lighter coloured jerseys while away.

Toronto's home jerseys will be blue, Ottawa's will be red and Montreal's will be burgundy. Boston, New York and Minnesota are the U.S.-based teams, and they'll wear green, turquoise and purple uniforms, respectively, at home.

The jerseys will also include advertising. They'll each have a shoulder patch from Canadian Tire, which signed a multi-year agreement with the PWHL in September.

The league's uniforms for the first season don't include team logos, a concession the PWHL had to make as it powers toward a January launch, PWHL advisory board member Stan Kasten told reporters on Tuesday. If logos appear on jerseys in the first season, it would likely be on a patch similar to the one made for Canadian Tire.

That's because the league had to order the jerseys "right away" before sorting out branding details, Kasten said. He said most of the big companies were already "swamped" by the summer, when the the PWHL was created.

"We found someone who could do this and we did this in maybe early August is when we placed our order, once we knew what our cities were," Kasten said.

Kasten said the league will have merchandise for fans to order online by December, and items in venues by January.

The league announced its practice venues earlier this week, but hasn't announced