Montreal Victoire choose 1st-round opponent in PWHL playoffs

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 04, 2025 7:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The Montreal Victoire volition look the Ottawa Charge successful the opening circular of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) playoffs.

Montreal wide manager Danièle Sauvageau announced the enactment of Ottawa arsenic its archetypal hostile connected Sunday connected the league's Jocks successful Jills podcast. 

The regular-season PWHL champion has the enactment of selecting either the 3rd effect oregon the 4th effect to look successful a best-of-five first-round series. The Charge finished third, up of the fourth-place Minnesota Frost done a tiebreaker. 

The Victoire's determination means the second-seeded Toronto Sceptres volition look the Frost successful the archetypal circular for the 2nd consecutive year.

The Charge, who are successful the playoffs for the archetypal time, won their past 2 regular-season games against the Victoire aft losing the archetypal four.

In the inaugural 2024 season, the regular-season champion Sceptres elected to look the fourth-seeded Frost successful the archetypal round. Minnesota went connected to upset Toronto earlier defeating the Boston Fleet successful the last to assertion the archetypal Walter Cup.