US women's hockey gold medalists return to PWHL action: When do they play?

Team USA women's hockey star Taylor Heise talked to Fox News Digital about the gold medal win and representing the Stars and Stripes.

The U.S. women’s hockey team came back to the United States from their gold medal run at the Winter Olympics to applause and jubilation from their fans.

Unlike in past Winter Olympics, most of the women’s team will continue to play hockey professionally.

The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) is in its third season. The league includes four teams from the U.S. and four from Canada. The PWHL teams were well represented on Team USA and helped put the league at the forefront for the millions who watched the entirety of the Olympics this month.

"I would take a week off in Mexico, but I understand that’s not possible," Taylor Heise joked in an interview with Fox News Digital. "But yeah, we’re all excited to go back and to get started back with the PWHL. It’s definitely a league that’s given us a platform to play on and kind of looking back to the WNBA and how they started. It’s a consistent grind, and it’s not just you go from here to here in two days.

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"With our expansions and everything, it’s definitely been a hard process for a lot of people, moving teams and such. But I just think, you know, 7.7 million people that tuned in for that gold medal game, which is amazing by the way, I just think it’s pretty special because I think we gained a lot of new fans.

"Regardless of if you’re just a women’s hockey fan or you tuned in to the Olympics and now realize that we play in a professional league, it’s pretty special. And I expect us to have a few more fans that show up for our games and decide that they want to be PWHL fans in the future."