{"id":669045,"date":"2026-05-14T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:12:14","slug":"montreal-victoire-ottawa-charge-kick-off-clash-for-pwhls-walter-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669045\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u00a0Victoire, Ottawa Charge kick off clash for PWHL&#8217;s Walter Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an all-Canadian clash for the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League\u2019s championship trophy.<\/p>\n<p>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>The Charge reached the final a second straight year. Ottawa bowed out to the Minnesota Frost last season in four games that all went to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>The Charge were the fourth seed heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778167391_565_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/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":669046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-669045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669045","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=669045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}