Sunday, January 11, 2026 | 1 p.m. AT | Scotiabank Centre - Halifax
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Daniella Ponticelli (Play-by-Play), Becky Kellar (Analyst), Natalie Noury (Reporter)
OTTAWA CHARGE
3-3-0-5 | 15 PTS | 4TH PLACE (TIED)
Top Scorer: Brianne Jenner – 11 GP, 6-5-11 PTS
Last Game: 4-2 W vs. VAN on Jan. 9
BOSTON FLEET
7-0-1-2 | 22 PTS | 1ST PLACE
Top Scorer: Megan Keller – 10 GP, 4-5-9 PTS
Last Game: 2-1 W vs. SEA on Jan. 7
2025-26 SEASON SERIES: OTTAWA LEADS 2-1 IN POINTS (BOSTON LEADS 20-16 IN POINTS ALL-TIME)
Dec. 27 at OTT: 3-2 OTT (SO) | Jan. 11 at BOS (HALIFAX) | Feb. 28 at OTT | Apr. 22 at BOS
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
This is Ottawa’s second of four Takeover Tour games this season after the Charge topped Minnesota 3-2 in overtime in Chicago on Dec. 21. The Charge lost their first three Takeover Tour games last season (0-0-1-2) but have won their last two, including a 2-1 victory over Boston last season on Mar. 29 in St. Louis. These teams also played in the league’s very first neutral site game in Detroit during the inaugural season, with Boston winning 2-1 in a shootout on Mar. 16, 2024.
The Fleet lost their first Takeover Tour game this season, 4-3, in Detroit on Jan. 3 against Vancouver despite leading 3-1 in the third period. Boston’s only other Takeover Tour game this season will be the last of the 16-game schedule against the Goldeneyes in Edmonton on Apr. 7.
These teams met in Ottawa on Dec. 27, with the Charge earning a 3-2 shootout win. Boston won seven of the first nine games between these teams (4-3-1-1) but the Charge have now won the last three (2-1-0-0). They met on this day, Jan. 11, 2025, last season in Ottawa with Boston winning 2-1 in OT.
The Charge have won a team record five straight games (2-3-0-0), tied for the longest winning streak of the season with the Fleet, who opened the campaign with a team record five straight wins, all in regulation.
Jill Saulnier of Halifax is one of four Nova Scotians in the PWHL. The Boston forward played her Midget AAA hockey for the Halifax Hawks and was captain and MVP of the 2006-07 team. Her 22 shots on goal this season rank fifth on the Fleet. She performed the ceremonial puck drop at Saturday’s Halifax Mooseheads game and is expecting 60 family and friends in attendance, a number she capped while jokingly citing it was too much organizing!
Scotiabank Centre hosted Game 4 of the 2024-25 Rivalry Series on Feb. 6, with the U.S. winning 2-1 in a shootout. Eight players from these teams competed, with Ottawa’s Gwyneth Philips, a soon-to-be Olympian, earning the win in goal with 32 saves. The Charge’s three 2026 Canadian Olympians, Brianne Jenner, Emily Clark and Jocelyne Larocque, took the ice alongside Boston’s Jamie Lee Rattray. Fleet captain and U.S. Olympian Megan Keller was also on the winning side with Charge forwards Gabbie Hughes and Mannon McMahon.
Jenner is not a Maritimer but grew up around a lot of East Coast hockey players. The Charge captain would go to Allen Andrew’s Hockey School in Cornwall, PEI, every summer with her dad, Dave Jenner, who was recruiting athletes for his Ontario prep school. This is where she met and became friends with Saulnier as a teenager.
Stephanie Markowski is from Edmonton, but her mother’s cousins live in Sydney, NS. The Charge defender will have nine family members who will make the trip from Cape Breton to see her play in the PWHL for the first time.
Kendra Woodland won three AUS titles with the University of New Brunswick and had the chance to watch her former team play against Dalhousie on Saturday night. The Charge backup goaltender played five seasons with the Reds from 2018-24 and was named 2023 U SPORTS Player of the Year.
Abby Newhook has family travelling from St. John’s, NL, to see her in action for the Fleet. Her grandmother hasn’t seen her play since before her NCAA career at Boston College.
Kris Sparre played one game for the Mooseheads on Sept. 25, 2005, at Scotiabank Centre, recording two penalty minutes in a 4-3 loss to PEI. His brother, Daniel Sparre, played two seasons in Halifax with Justin Saulnier, Jill’s cousin.
Aerin Frankel is poised to become the first goaltender in PWHL history to make 50 career regular season starts, with 49 to date, all in a Boston uniform. Recently named to her first U.S. Olympic roster, her 26 career wins and five career shutouts are tied for the most all-time.
Finnish Olympians Susanna Tapani and Ronja Savolainen enter the game with the longest point streaks of their career. The Fleet forward has points in four straight (1G, 3A) and the Charge defender in three straight games (1G, 2A). Jenner and Rattray both have two-game goal streaks.
Cape Breton is hosting the 2026 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship, a tournament won by five Canadian players in today’s game: Rattray and Saulnier (2010), Clark (2012 and 2013), Rebecca Leslie (2014), Markowski (2019). Six rookies from these teams are the most recent PWHL U18 gold medalists in 2020 with Team USA: Mia Biotti, Rory Guilday, Peyton Hemp, Ella Huber, Amanda Thiele, Haley Winn.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
“These Takeover Tour games are exciting. We look forward to them. I’ve had the opportunity to play in Halifax last year in the Rivalry Series. It was packed and it was loud. The East Coast crowd is so much fun to play in front of. We’re going through a good stretch here and we’re looking forward to an exciting game in that barn.” – Charge captain Brianne Jenner
“Playing in Halifax is a childhood dream come true. This is such a passionate sports city, specifically a hockey city, and I couldn't be more excited to play in front of my friends and family. It's going to be an emotional day for me. I couldn't think of a more full circle moment.” – Fleet forward Jill Saulnier
SUNDAY’S GAME: The PWHL returns to Atlantic Canada for the second time this season as Ottawa and Boston battle in the DoorDash PWHL Takeover Tour presented by Atlantic Lottery. Halifax hosted the first of 16 games on the 2025-26 Takeover Tour schedule on Dec. 17 when the Montréal Victoire defeated the Toronto Sceptres, 2-1 in a shootout, before a sold-out crowd of 10,438. Halifax is one of five cities with two Takeover Tour games this season along with Chicago, Denver, Detroit and Edmonton, and is the first to host both of its games, and Scotiabank Centre is one of 30 venues to host a PWHL game all-time. Performing today’s ceremonial puck drop will be Ellie Black, a four-time Canadian Olympic gymnast, widely regarded as the most successful Canadian female gymnast of all time. While she made history at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games, it was her support for fellow competitors that the world applauded by awarding her with the 2024 Olympic Fair Play Award. Named one of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia history, Ellie was appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia and recently honoured with the Order of Canada. The U.S. national anthem will be performed by Kailin Glasgow, an actor, singer, songwriter, and award-winning performer based in Halifax and currently appearing as The Scarecrow in Neptune Theatre's The Wizard of Oz. The Canadian national anthem will be performed by DeeDee Austin, a 19-year-old Indigenous singer/songwriter from Nova Scotia and Abegweit First Nation in Prince Edward Island. The PWHL has partnered with local nonprofits including the Nova Scotia Indigenous Girl’s Hockey Program and the U11C Girls Metro West Team for today’s game to promote gender equity and empower the next generation of female leaders by offering access to live women's sports experiences. Atlantic Lottery has a number of activations for fans today, including the PROLINE Shooting Kiosk on the concourse, the Atlantic Lottery Wave and the PROLINE Shootout during the second intermission. Fans can also watch the videoboards for the DoorDash ‘Bring It In’ Fan of the Game and the Aero Bubble Burst Loudest Fan. This is the second time in PWHL history that two Takeover Tour games will occur on the same day, with Montréal and Vancouver playing later this afternoon in Québec City.