{"id":684646,"date":"2026-05-21T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684646\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:14:13","slug":"pwhl-champions-montreal-victoire-return-home-celebrate-walter-cup-triumph-with-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684646\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL champions Montr\u00e9al Victoire return home, celebrate Walter Cup triumph with fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after winning the franchise\u2019s inaugural PWHL championship, Montr\u00e9al Victoire players made their triumphant return home on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoire were greeted by roaring fans \u2014 dressed and draped in the team\u2019s maroon and blue \u2014 outside the Verdun Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal defeated the Ottawa Charge in four games in the PWHL final, capped off by a convincing <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.citynews.ca\/2026\/05\/20\/victorie-pwhl-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">4-0 victory in Ottawa<\/a> in Game 4 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Poulin-Victoire-scaled-e1779380827678-1024x577.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMontr\u00e9al Victoire team captain Marie-Philip Poulin walks off the team bus at the Verdun Auditorium with the Walter Cup in hand, May 21, 2026. (Lola Kalder, CityNews) <\/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\/1779121264_781_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after winning the franchise\u2019s inaugural PWHL championship, Montr\u00e9al Victoire players made their triumphant return home on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-684646","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\/684646","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=684646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}