CWHL tickets and schedule released

With the CWHL season just around the corner, the league announced the season schedule on Tuesday, and put tickets on sale to fans around the world.

Opening weekend (October 17 to 18), has the defending Clarkson Cup champions, Boston Blades, taking on the Toronto Furies in a two-game series in Toronto. Brampton travels to Montreal to take on the Stars for another weekend two-game series.

The Calgary Inferno open their season at home (with Hayley Wickenheiser on the squad), October 24th against Boston.

The full schedule:

Each team will play 12 home games. Season's tickets will take $140 out of your pocket until July 31st, when the ticket prices go-up to $150 per seasons ticket. The latter option will save you $30 as opposed to buying tickets individually for each game valued at $15 per game.

The league is claiming they're creating and planning new events for fans to interact with the league, and players in a unique way.

"The 2014-15 season was perhaps the most competitive in the league's eight-year history," CWHL commissioner Brenda Andress said in a press release.

"The regular season standings weren't finalized until the last weekend of play; it was just that close. With talented young players like Marie-Philip Poulin and Brianne Jenner entering the draft, we are, without a doubt, going to see the same exceptional level of competition this coming season."

She went on to talk about the impact Hayley Wickenheiser will have on the league for years to come:

"We couldn't be happier about welcoming Wick's return to professional hockey - her leadership, skill and experience simply cannot be quantified. Her presence in a CWHL uniform will extend the reach of our game to a whole new group of fans."

"I look forward to the competition and to playing with, and in some cases against, some of my national teammates," Wickenheiser said. "It will be a fun and competitive league. It is a great show for the fans to see national players play more than every four years."

With Boston losing some key players (and coaches) to the NWHL's Boston Pride and other organizations, Calgary gaining Wickenheiser, Toronto and Brampton itching to prove their worth in the league, and Montreal trying to avenge their overtime Clarkson Cup loss last season, it's an exciting time to be a CWHL fan.