{"id":601934,"date":"2026-06-19T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:00:13","slug":"report-pwhl-ottawa-charge-set-to-stay-in-ottawa-play-at-ottawa-senators-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601934\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: PWHL Ottawa Charge set to stay in Ottawa, play at Ottawa Senators&#8217; arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Ottawa Charge are staying in the city, with the PWHL \u201creaching an agreement to play\u201d at the Senators\u2019 Canadian Tire Centre next season, according to sources cited by John Wawrow of the AP. The deal was anticipated after PWHL and Senators officials in March said that the two sides were \u201chaving productive talks.\u201d Wawrow notes the Charge played each of their four postseason games at the Canadian Tire Centre, where they averaged 13,416 fans per playoff outing. The Charge also drew a crowd of 17,114 for a regular-season game at the 18,655-capacity arena. The move to Ottawa\u2019s suburbs was \u201cprompted by the city going ahead with renovations that will reduce the seating capacity by about 2,000 seats at the Charge\u2019s former home, TD Place.\u201d The PWHL said that the cuts did \u201cnot meet fan demand, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/29\/pwhl-warns-smaller-proposed-arena-would-limit-growth-for-ottawa-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/29\/pwhl-warns-smaller-proposed-arena-would-limit-growth-for-ottawa-charge\/\">made it financially unfeasible to stay<\/a> at the arena.\u201d Wawrow notes without the agreement, the team was \u201cin jeopardy of leaving Canada\u2019s capital altogether\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pwhl-charge-senators-arena-4c77fb7e783e3462f79a47bb757792b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP, 6\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Charge are staying in the city, with the PWHL \u201creaching an agreement to play\u201d at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,1767,73],"class_list":["post-601934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa-senators","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawasenators","tag-pwhl","tag-senators"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116773835502833392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601934","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=601934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}