A sellout crowd of over 15,000 caught the best of the best in women\u2019s hockey over the weekend at the Canada Life Centre as the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League made its Winnipeg debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fans were rewarded for their attendance with twelve seconds of bonus hockey as the Montreal Victoire and Ottawa Charge battled on the ice.\u00a0Ultimately, it\u00a0was the Charge who came out on top as Rebecca Leslie netted the overtime winner on a power-play that carried over from the third period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Local audiences also got treated to a homecoming on both sides of the ice.\u00a0Ottawa defender Jocelyne Larocque, who hails from Ste. Anne, had nearly 300 family and friends in attendance for the game.\u00a0Meanwhile, forward Katie\u00a0Tapin\u00a0of Winnipeg started the game for the Victoire, receiving one of the loudest\u00a0greetings of the night from the crowd on hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The game was the crown jewel\u00a0in\u00a0a weekend of events across Winnipeg for the PWHL. The league hosted a hockey operations career panel at the University of Manitoba as well as youth hockey clinics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Manitoba is the sixth province to host a PWHL game as the Takeover Tour continues to Calgary and Edmonton in the first week of April.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sellout crowd of over 15,000 caught the best of the best in women\u2019s hockey over the weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-555172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}