PWHL final preview: Ottawa Charge looking to become 1st Canadian PWHL champions

The Ottawa Charge have the opportunity to become the first Canadian PWHL team to lift the Walter Cup.

But first, they have to get past the defending champion Minnesota Frost, a team with offence up and down the lineup and scoring threats littering the blue line.

It all starts Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. ET, when the Charge and the boisterous fans inside TD Place host the Frost for Game 1 of the Walter Cup final.

"We know that we're going to have to bring our best," Charge captain Brianne Jenner told reporters over the weekend. "We had to do that in the Montreal series. I think we competed, shift in and shift out, for that entire series. That's really what it's going to take."

Both teams qualified for the playoffs on the final day of the regular season, finishing with the same number of points in the standings.

And both knocked off higher-seeded opponents to get here. The Frost took down the Toronto Sceptres for the second year in a row, scoring 18 goals over four games. 

The Charge, meanwhile, eliminated the Montreal Victoire team that picked Ottawa as its opponent. Chants of "You picked us!" came from the more than 8,000 Ottawa fans who watched their team seal Montreal's fate with a 2-1 win on Friday. 

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While the Minnesota-Toronto series was a high-scoring affair, every single Ottawa-Montreal game was decided by only one goal.

"At this point in the season, both Minnesota and ourselves are just going to lean into what we know is our style of play and what's been working for us," Charge head coach Carla MacLeod said. "There's no doubt it's going to be a hard-fought battle, and