{"id":668855,"date":"2026-05-14T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:09:15","slug":"pwhls-walter-cup-montreal-victoire-ottawa-charge-kick-off-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668855\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL&#8217;s Walter Cup: Montreal Victoire, Ottawa Charge kick off clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s an all-Canadian clash for the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League\u2019s championship trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal Victoire host the Ottawa Charge at Place Bell in Thursday\u2019s opener of the best-of-five Walter Cup series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Charge reached the final for a second straight year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa bowed out to the Minnesota Frost last season in four games, all of which went to overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Minnesota claimed the Walter Cup in the PWHL\u2019s first two seasons, but the top-seeded Victoire dispatched the Frost this year in a semifinal that went the full five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa ousted the Boston Fleet in the other semifinal three games to one, with Charge forward Michela Cava scoring in double overtime in Game 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Charge were the fourth seed heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an all-Canadian clash for the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League\u2019s championship trophy. The Montreal Victoire host the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,82],"class_list":["post-668855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668855","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=668855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}