ManitobaLogan Angers cheered her hometown Jets from seats inside Winnipeg’s downtown arena when she was growing up. In a few months, she’ll see it all from the other side.’The idea of it now is just crazy,’ she says about March 2026 gameDarren Bernhardt · CBC News · Posted: Nov 13, 2025 2:28 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Winnipeg-born Logan Angers will be coming home with her Ottawa Charge PWHL team for a game at Canada Life Centre. (Logan Angers/Instagram)Logan Angers cheered her hometown Jets from seats inside Winnipeg’s downtown arena when she was growing up.In a few months, she’ll see it all from the other side.The goalie for the Ottawa Charge of the Professional Women’s Hockey League is coming home for a special game in March 2026.”I’m so excited. I think it’s just kind of a surreal moment, thinking about how we’re going to be able to play a professional women’s hockey game in Winnipeg. It’s really awesome,” she told CBC Manitoba Information Radio guest host Faith Fundal on Thursday. The PWHL announced earlier this month that it intends to play neutral-site games in six different Canadian cities.On March 22, the Charge will take on the Montreal Victoire at Canada Life Centre.Although the game is four months away, Angers is already hearing from many friends and family who plan to be in the stands cheering for her.”There’s so many people wanting to share that support and love,” she said. “So far I think I have a group of about 15, a group of 20 and a group of 25.”The PWHL was formed in 2023 with six teams. It is now an eight-team league with four Canadian franchises and four in the U.S.Two expansion teams, the Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes, will play their first games later this month.The PWHL stats: Logan AngersAngers, 25, who says she’s been skating since she could walk, also played softball growing up. But it was hockey that won out as a career pursuit.”I knew hockey was kind of where I was going to be able to excel the most. Obviously at that point, we didn’t know there was [going to be] a professional women’s hockey league, but that all turned out pretty well for me,” she said.”Finding out that I was going to be able to be a part of it was just incredible. It didn’t feel real at first and then, you know, it kind of hits you that yeah, I get to be a hockey player for my job.”There’s really nowhere else I’d rather be.”Angers drew early inspiration from Shannon Szabados, who represented Canada internationally at three Winter Olympics and was in goal during Canada’s gold medal wins in 2010 and 2014.More recently, she’s been a fan of fellow PWHLer and Manitoban Kristen Campbell, the goalie for the Goldeneyes.”Watching her succeed at the college level and then the Olympics was really awesome. And now I get to work alongside her,” Angers said. They run a goalie camp together every summer.”And then, obviously, I watched the Jets when they came back and loved [goalie Connor] Hellebuyck, too.”Angers wore Hellebuyck’s jersey number 37 in university. To soon have the opportunity to set up in the same crease on the Jets’ home ice is indescribable, she said.”The idea of it now is just crazy. The first time we even step on the ice for practice in Winnipeg, it’s going to be like, man, yeah. This is where I’ve grown up watching the NHL, and now I get to be a part of it,” she said.Tickets for the PWHL game in Winnipeg went on sale to Manitoba Moose and Jets season ticket holders on Thursday.General public ticket sales will begin at 10 a.m. Friday through the PWHL website.ABOUT THE AUTHORDarren Bernhardt has been with CBC Manitoba since 2009 and specializes in offbeat and local history stories. He is the author of two bestselling books: The Lesser Known: A History of Oddities from the Heart of the Continent, and Prairie Oddities: Punkinhead, Peculiar Gravity and More Lesser Known Histories.
Goalie Logan Angers expects ‘surreal moment’ when PWHL plays in her hometown, Winnipeg
