Friday, April 3, 2026 | 7 p.m. ET | Canadian Tire Centre
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EN: Kenzie Lalonde (Play-by-Play), Cheryl Pounder (Analyst), Kelly Greig (Reporter);
FR: Geneviève Tardif (Host), Claudine Douville (Play-by-Play), Isabelle Leclaire (Analyst), Catherine Savoie (Reporter)
MONTRÉAL VICTOIRE
13-4-2-5 | 49 PTS | 2ND PLACE
Top Scorers: Abby Roque – 23 GP, 6-12-18 PTS
Last Game: 3-0 W vs. VAN on Apr. 1
OTTAWA CHARGE
6-7-1-10 | 33 PTS | 5TH PLACE
Top Scorer: Rebecca Leslie – 24 GP, 12-7-19 PTS
Last Game: 2-1 L vs. TOR (in Calgary) on Apr. 1
2025-26 SEASON SERIES: MONTRÉAL LEADS 7-2 IN POINTS (MTL LEADS 28-14 IN POINTS ALL-TIME)
Jan. 13 at MTL: 2-1 MTL | Jan. 24 at MTL: 3-1 MTL | Mar. 22 at OTT (WINNIPEG): 2-1 OTT (OT) | Apr. 3 at OTT
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
The Charge earned a 2-1 overtime win when these teams met on Mar. 22 in Winnipeg, but Montréal won the first two games between them this season (both at home). This is the second PWHL game to take place at Canadian Tire Centre — the Victoire won 2-1 when these teams met there on Dec. 6, 2024. Montréal’s next win will be its 50th in regular season history.
The Victoire beat the Goldeneyes, 3-0, at home on Wednesday, their league leading 11th multi-goal win and their sixth shutout of the season, second only to Boston (seven). In the league’s first two seasons, Montréal had one total shutout. Including playoffs, every other team had at least four. All seven of the team’s shutouts have been recorded by Ann-Renée Desbiens.
Montréal’s win clinched a playoff berth for the third straight season and extended their point streak to a league-record 12 games, surpassing the mark set by Toronto (2024). The Victoire have earned 30 of a possible 36 points (8-2-2-0) since Jan. 21, also scoring at least three goals in 10 of those 12 games, and have done so in a league-leading 15 games this season.
Hayley Scamurra scored two goals on Wednesday and now has three goals in her last three games after scoring two in her first 21. The Olympic gold medalist, who began her PWHL career with Ottawa, has never scored a goal in seven games against the Charge. She has at least one goal against every other PWHL team except Seattle (two games).
Laura Stacey set up both Scamurra goals Wednesday and leads the PWHL with 11 primary assists (only one secondary). Tied for the team lead with 18 points, she is two away from 60 for her career and looking for her first point against Ottawa this season. Her next shot on goal will be her 100th this season.
Nicole Gosling has points in five straight road games, scoring the Victoire’s lone goal against the Charge in Winnipeg. Former Charge forward Shiann Darkangelo has a two-game point streak and the Victoire are 6-0-0-0 when she tallies.
Dara Greig will take the ice at Canadian Tire Centre one night after her brother Ridly recorded his 100th career NHL point for the Senators with a goal and an assist in a 4-1 win over Buffalo. The Sens host Minnesota tomorrow, making three straight days of Greig siblings in action in the nation’s capital.
Ottawa returns home after a team record six straight games on the road (1-2-0-3). Tonight will be the team’s fifth straight game in an NHL building, playing before 54,634 fans in the last four games in Calgary, Seattle, Winnipeg and Minnesota. The Charge have won six of its first nine home games in Ottawa, including a 4-3 win over Seattle at TD Place on Mar. 4.
The Charge fell to the Sceptres, 2-1, in a Takeover Tour game in Calgary on Wednesday. Ottawa has won every game this season in which it has scored at least three goals (5-5-0-0), one of two teams without a loss in such a game (Vancouver, 6-1-0-0). The Charge are just 1-2-1-10 when scoring two or fewer, earning both wins consecutively before Wednesday’s loss.
Fanuza Kadirova scored her eighth goal of the season on Wednesday, the third Ottawa player to reach that mark (Rebecca Leslie, Brianne Jenner). Only Minnesota (five) has more such players. Kadirova has one goal in her three games against the Victoire this season.
Leslie scored her league leading third overtime goal of the season to beat the Victoire in Winnipeg and enters the game tied for the league lead with 12 goals overall. She scored twice with a team-high 21 shots on goal and was one of four Charge players with three points across the six road games, along with Gabbie Hughes and rookie Sarah Wozniewicz (also with 2G, 1A each) and Jenner (1G, 2A).
Kathryn Reilly has points in consecutive games and all four of her rookie season assists have come in her last seven games. Fellow defender Stephanie Markowski has also stepped up and taken advantage of extra ice time with Brooke Hobson on LTIR and leads the team with a plus-6 rating.
Gwyneth Philips has allowed just three goals in her last three games, posting two wins with one shutout and stopping 67 of 70 shots for a 1.01 GAA and .957 SV%. Her 604 saves are the most ever recorded in a single PWHL regular season.
Emily Clark’s parents made the trip from Saskatoon to watch her play in Calgary and will be in attendance to collect her Bobblehead tonight and stay in town for Wednesday’s game against Seattle. Her last goal was scored on home ice against the Torrent on Mar. 4 at TD Place.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“We're winning games, but it's taking everybody. It's taking different lineups. And it’s going to take both goaltenders as well. There's still lots of season left to play and it starts against Ottawa, which will mark our first opportunity to work on things we want to improve on and clean up.” – Victoire Head Coach Kori Cheverie
“We’re in a good spot. Our goal of making the playoffs is still within our grasp, we’ve just got to keep going and believe. Our games are always so close, but our group has come a long way this year. We just have to give ourselves an opportunity to push for another Walter Cup. We got into the final last season. We know what it’s like to get there and we know what it takes. This group is ready to get back at it Friday at Canadian Tire Centre.” – Charge Head Coach Carla MacLeod
FRIDAY’S GAME: It’s been 30 days since Charge fans have seen the team play in Ottawa and they will celebrate by making history with a new home attendance record at Canadian Tire Centre in the fourth and final meeting of the regular season against the rival Victoire. The regular-season series will end without Ottawa hosting Montréal at TD Place, with the only other PWHL head-to-head of its kind concluding tomorrow when Seattle’s first and only trip to New York takes place at Madison Square Garden. Tonight’s game is presented by Scotiabank and the first 6,000 fans through the doors will receive an Emily Clark Bobblehead. Ottawa native Emma Miskew, a three-time World Women’s Curling Champion, five-time Scotties Champion, and recent Olympic bronze medalist, will perform the ceremonial puck drop. The Charge are also proud to welcome Rachel Reid, the New York Times Bestselling author of the Game Changers hockey romance series, who will be doing a pregame book signing in the Emperor Room and will be acknowledged during the second period as tonight’s Warrior of the Game. On the concourse, fans can check out the popular Canadian Tire ‘My Team. My Sign’ station at the top of the main entrance stairs, Scotiabank will have a plinko game outside of section 106/107, plus a GoodLife Fitness photobooth and a CCM activation outside of section 228. The Canadian anthem will be performed by Allegra Nocita. Prior to tonight, the largest crowd for a Charge home game was last season against the Victoire with 11,065 fans at Canadian Tire Centre on Dec. 6, 2024. The largest crowd for a women’s hockey game ever played in Ottawa was recorded during the 2013 IIHF Women’s World Championship with 18,013 in attendance for a preliminary round game between Canada and Finland on Apr. 5, 2013. That stood as the best-attended women’s hockey game for over a decade until Feb. 16, 2024, when 19,285 PWHL fans packed Scotiabank Arena for Toronto and Montréal during the league’s inaugural season, later beat by the crowd of 21,105 at the Bell Centre on Apr. 20, 2024. Canadian Tire Centre is one of 33 venues to host a PWHL game all-time, including one of 19 venues with a current NHL team, with both of those numbers to increase by two with New York’s Madison Square Garden tomorrow and Boston’s TD Garden next Saturday.