Ready or not, the Ottawa Charge is just a few sleeps from its 2025-26 PWHL season opener.

If exhibition game results mattered — which, of course, they don’t — you would have to say the Charge is entering its third campaign on a low note.

Ottawa dropped its second of two tune-ups in 24 hours to the Toronto Sceptres on Monday afternoon, falling 3-0 in front of about 50 fans at TD Place.

On Sunday afternoon at the same venue, the Charge lost 3-2 to the Sceptres in overtime.

“I feel like you always want to win, but I think it’s like a known thing, that in these exhibition games, you’re really just trying to work on the cohesiveness of the group and implementing what you’ve learned all training camp,” said rookie winger Peyton Hemp, a fourth-round pick (29th overall) from the University of

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