VANCOUVER – The Ottawa Charge are surging to make a late-season playoff push, and head coach Carla MacLeod said this part of the Professional Women’s Hockey League campaign is about picking up any sort of positives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to work our way out of games and earn some points from games that weren\u2019t going our way,\u201d said MacLeod.<\/p>\n
Charge captain Rebecca Leslie\u2019s 11th goal of the season in overtime gave the Charge the 3-2 win on Saturday after they trailed 2-1 with less than a minute left in the third period.<\/p>\n
MacLeod said while the comeback win is something to build on, she knows winning games like this isn\u2019t sustainable.<\/p>\n
The Charge had just 17 shots against the Goldeneyes, but goaltender Gwyneth Phillips stopped 34 of the 36 shots she faced, and MacLeod said a performance like this is a way for her team to pick up momentum and confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the way (Phillips) played, she was just in control. It\u2019s a benefit to our team,\u201d said the Charge’s bench boss.<\/p>\n
MacLeod praised her team for the resilience it showed, particularly in a game with a bulk of the scoring chances on its own net.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a professional industry and you have to earn your way out. This isn\u2019t the model we want to replicate, but our group has stuck with it for 60-plus minutes and that\u2019s something we\u2019re proud of,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Leslie, who moved into a tie with New York\u2019s Kristyna Kaltounkova for the most goals (11), said despite the lack of scoring chances on Saturday, the Charge feel confident knowing how lethal the squad can be when they do get in front of the net.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we find ways to get any shots through, we\u2019ll have more opportunities to win these games,\u201d said Leslie.<\/p>\n
The Charge boast two of the top goal scorers in the league. Alongside Leslie, Brianne Jenner\u2019s nine goals is tied for the third-best mark.<\/p>\n
Leslie\u2019s winner was assisted by Jenner, notching both players\u2019 18th point of the season, tied for the second most in the PWHL behind Taylor Heise of the Minnesota Frost with 20.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been lucky to play with (Jenner) this season and she\u2019s always going to find me,\u201d said Leslie.<\/p>\n
While MacLeod and Leslie were glad to pick up critical points from a difficult away game, they reiterated they don\u2019t want to be known as a \u201ccomeback\u201d team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a no-quit attitude (and) we\u2019ve shown that throughout the season, but we need to be better.”<\/p>\n
Despite the overtime win, Leslie said her team could have won in regulation if it cashed in on more of the opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to play a full 60 minutes because in this league everything is tight and we need those regulation points,\u201d said Leslie. \u201cI believed in this group through the end and I knew we\u2019d continue to push, but we need to find more consistency in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Charge have won four of their last eight games, still searching for the consistency Leslie talked about.<\/p>\n
The Charge currently sit in fourth place (28 points). Last season, they were the third seed, finishing the year with 44 points.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER – The Ottawa Charge are surging to make a late-season playoff push, and head coach Carla MacLeod…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[53504,1782,5,6,5937,285,1357,4,60,3105,1354,1834,1361,24377,43,1783,14,104,718,1356],"class_list":["post-503899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-playoffs","category-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-canada-united-states-sports-relations","tag-goaltender","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ice-hockey-events","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-national-hockey-league-trophies-and-awards","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-ottawa-charge","tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-ice-hockey","tag-sports","tag-sports-competitions","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116230591867756564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}