fantastic athletes providing a fast paced game
by Dave on 1/17/25The Arena at TD Place - OttawaRating: 5 out of 5The PWHL provides a wonderful experience for everyone, and the city of Ottawa stands behind them. Show your ticket and ride the bus for free to and from the arena. We drove in from St. Thomas so this was great. A multitude of restaurants within minutes (walking) of the arena. Reasonably priced seats.
But best of all two hockey teams who gave 110% from the puck drop to the game ending whistle. A fast paced game with clean but aggressive checks, few penalties, and lots of scoring chances, but yet a low scoring game.
Thank you to the Ottawa Charge, and the Toronto Scepters.
We did have one annoyance and one concern while at TD Place.
We had a referee chirper in our section. When are people going to learn they are ruining the game for those of us who were enjoying the game until they opened their mouths, and that if they are not trained to the level of the game officials they have no right to criticize. Fortunately security must have spoken to him, because the second and third period were great until about 2 minutes before the final whistle.
My concern is with the arena, converting a male washroom into a gender neutral washroom. Please don't get me wrong I am all for conversion to gender neutral washrooms, but taping off a dozen urinals and leaving access to only 3 toilet stalls, so you can say you have conformed to requirements is ridiculous.
Thank you PWHL.
Thank you Ottawa Charge, sorry you lost.
Thank you Toronto Scepters.
An EXCELLENT event.