{"id":791221,"date":"2026-07-09T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:58:13","slug":"pwhls-ottawa-charge-set-to-move-into-canadian-tire-centre-as-permanent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791221\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL\u2019s Ottawa Charge set to move into Canadian Tire Centre as permanent home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PWHL\u2019s Ottawa Charge will now play its home games at the Canadian Tire Centre, home of the Ottawa Senators, starting with the 2026-27 season. The team made their announcement at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenators Sports &amp; Entertainment is proud to officially welcome the Ottawa Charge to Canadian Tire Centre,\u201d SS&amp;E president and CEO Cyril Leeder said via statement. \u201cThe Ottawa-Gatineau region is fortunate to have two professional hockey teams competing at the highest level. In a short period of time, the Charge have developed a substantial following and fan base, and they have become an important part of our local hockey ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Charge spent their first three seasons at TD Place, located in the city\u2019s Lansdowne Park area. But in November, the city of Ottawa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6788376\/2025\/11\/07\/pwhl-ottawa-charge-new-arena\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> a $419 million redevelopment plan for Lansdowne Park, which included a much smaller event centre that seats 5,850 and has a capacity of 6,600. The current TD Place has a capacity of 8,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, in four decades of working in professional sports, this might be the most disappointing thing I have ever seen,\u201d said PWHL executive vice-president of hockey operations Amy Scheer in an op-ed to the Ottawa Citizen in <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/pwhl-lansdowne-ottawa-oped\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Charge played Walter Cup playoff games at the Canadian Tire Centre this past spring, en route to a championship final series appearance against the Montreal Victoire. Ottawa set attendance records at the Canadian Tire Centre. For Game 1 of their Walter Cup series against Montreal, the Canadian Tire Centre had 16,894 fans, a PWHL single-game playoff attendance record. The Charge lost the Walter Cup to the Victoire in four games.<\/p>\n<p>In a regular-season game against the Victoire on April 3, the Canadian Tire Centre had 17,114 fans, the highest-attended women\u2019s hockey game ever played in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Charge community continues to grow, the move to the Canadian Tire Centre will position us to welcome more fans and continue building a memorable experience for our players and our supporters,\u201d Charge GM Mike Hirshfeld said via statement. \u201cTD Place was the foundation of our early success, and we\u2019re deeply grateful for the energy our fans brought to every game in that building. In the playoffs, we witnessed that they could recreate that magic at CTC, and we\u2019re looking forward to continuing to build momentum in our new home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PWHL\u2019s Ottawa Charge will now play its home games at the Canadian Tire Centre, home of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,448,20739,206240,744,65573],"class_list":["post-791221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-charge","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-womens-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791221","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=791221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}