For a team that had reached the PWHL final less than six months ago, the prognosis for the Ottawa Charge entering this season was bleak. Article content

Too many key players were gone, either through the expansion draft or via free agency. Article content Article content

Goal scoring and power play problems were sure to haunt them again.

People with knowledge of the Professional Women’s Hockey League believed the Charge would fail to grab one of the four playoff spots in the now eight-team league.

And when Ottawa dropped its season opener at home in a 4-0 final to the two-time cellar-dwelling New York Sirens on Saturday, the doomsayers looked prophetic.

Perhaps now they’re having second thoughts.

More likely than not, the PWHL will once again be as unpredictable from one night to

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