Inside Ottawa Charge’s Bold Playbook: How They Defied the Odds to Build a PWHL Powerhouse in an Unlikely Market
Well, in Ottawa, playing fewer minutes on a deeper blue line, Larocque has looked the part of a top-pair, shutdown defender again. She and Bell played heavy matchup minutes against Poulin’s line in the semis, and kept Montreal’s captain and Laura Stacey to one goal apiece in the series. Perhaps more impressively, Larocque and Bell were only on the ice for Stacey’s goal.
On Tuesday night, she and Bell led the team in minutes and weren’t on the ice for the lone goal against. Beyond her on-ice impact, Hirshfeld said Larocque has been an excellent leader and really helped some of Ottawa’s younger defenders such as Bell, Zoe Boyd and Ronja Savolainen, who is playing in her first year in the PWHL.
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