The PWHL couldn't have scripted it better. For the second year in a row, the league's playoff picture comes down to the last day of the regular season.

Seattle is the PWHL’s second expansion team after the announcement of Vancouver last week, and the league’s eighth franchise, with the original six markets in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, New York and Minnesota. The team will join the league’s single-entity ownership structure under The Walter Group.

An announcement set for Wednesday at Climate Pledge Arena could mean that Seattle will be the eighth city to join the Professional Women's Hockey League.