Charge surrender 6 goals in 3rd-period collapse vs. Sirens

Jordan Stoopler · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 25, 2025 11:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

No substance the result Carla MacLeod could usually find a metallic lining, but an epic illness had the Ottawa Charge manager astatine a nonaccomplishment for words.

With her squad warring to summation crushed successful the Professional Women's Hockey League standings, MacLeod's squad suffered 1 of its worst losses connected Tuesday nighttime connected location crystal and present needs to find a mode to crook things astir and quickly.

With conscionable 5 games remaining successful the regular season, the Charge (9-1-4-11) beryllium fifth, 2 points backmost of the Minnesota Frost for the 4th and last playoff spot.

The Charge failed to marque the playoffs past season, squandering galore opportunities to clinch a playoff spot down the stretch, and volition request to beryllium astatine their champion if they anticipation to suffice this season.

Tuesday nighttime the Charge led 3-0 heading into the 3rd and could lone ticker arsenic New York scored six unanswered goals.

WATCH | Sirens people 6 times successful 3rd play to decision Charge:

Ottawa failed to registry a azygous changeable connected extremity successful the 3rd period.

When asked to explicate what happened successful the last 20 minutes MacLeod had nary response.

"I don't cognize that answer," said MacLeod. "You know, a beauteous good, coagulated 2 periods, evidently gave ourselves an accidental to triumph the hockey game, an important hockey game, and, you know, to spot it transpire the mode it did successful the 3rd play is hard to articulate. I don't person the answers."

The Charge volition request to find answers rapidly with a crippled Saturday successful St. Louis against the third-place Boston Fleet (8-6-4-6).

MacLeod admitted it was disappointing to spot an accidental gaffe distant erstwhile the crippled seemed good successful control.

"We've got accidental successful beforehand of us," MacLeod said. "We've got to marque definite this 1 settles successful the close way, and we larn from it and we've got to clasp ourselves to a amended standard.

"We've got to commencement figuring retired however to play for each different and truly gain these wins successful these cardinal games."

Captain Brianne Jenner said the squad conscionable ne'er recovered its pushback attitude.

"I deliberation determination was some, you know, missing habits earlier successful the crippled that we conscionable benignant of fto gaffe and I deliberation it caught up to us," said Jenner. "I deliberation our details needed to beryllium a batch amended and, I mean, there's nary excuse for that result."

So, what's the connection going forward?

"We've got to dig," MacLeod said. "We've got to excavation and we've got to find different cogwheel for ourselves and different level."

MacLeod has afloat assurance successful her radical but admits consistency remains a situation — thing she finds frustrating this precocious successful the season.

"We should person a amended grasp of it," admitted MacLeod. But it's connected america to find it, and find it quick."