OTTAWA, ON The Ottawa Cost introduced right this moment the addition of Emma Bergesen who has signed a Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) Customary Participant Settlement for the 2025-26 season. The 25-year-old left shot defender hails from Stavanger, Norway, and turns into the primary participant from her nation to signal within the PWHL.
The 5’8” rearguard is not any stranger to Canadian hockey, stemming most not too long ago from her five-year tenure at Mount Royal College. With the Cougars, Bergesen gained a U SPORTS Nationwide Championship in 2023 and earned two straight First Workforce All-Canadian honours in 2023 and 2024, posting back-to-back seasons with 22 factors in 28 video games. She turned professional in 2024-25 with SDE HF of the SDHL and tallied 19 factors in 33 video games.
“Emma is a younger defender that our group thinks has a superb upside,” mentioned Cost Basic Supervisor Mike Hirshfeld. “She is a puck shifting defender with robust offensive instincts. Her hockey sense and her imaginative and prescient are wonderful. We really like her potential.”
Bergesen first got here to Canada in 2017 and performed two seasons with the Ontario Hockey Academy in Cornwall earlier than making the bounce to U SPORTS. Internationally, she has represented Norway in six IIHF D1A Girls’s World Championships, profitable 2024 gold to earn her nation promotion to the match’s high division for the primary time since 1997. At April’s Girls’s Worlds in Czechia, Bergesen scored a objective and an help in 4 video games. In February, she contributed three assists in 4 video games at an Olympic Qualifying match in Sweden. In 2022-23, Bergesen was honoured with the distinguished Gullpucken Award in recognition of the Norwegian Participant of the Yr.
“I’ve had a tough time to settle down since getting this contract to play within the PWHL. It was an enormous objective of mine to play on this league as soon as it received began,” mentioned Bergesen. “Ottawa was enticing to me as a result of I’ve been following the league. I noticed how effectively this group did final season. I witnessed the keenness of the fan base. The ambiance on the rink and round this group is unreal. There’s a consolation degree in becoming a member of a group and training employees that has confidence in European gamers. I can’t wait to deliver my offensive recreation to Ottawa and combat for each battle.”
Bergesen was eligible for the present signing interval given her declaration for the 2024 PWHL Draft. She joins an Ottawa blue line that already options Ronja Savolainen, Jocelyne Larocque and Brooke Hobson below contract for the 2025-26 season. 
The Cost will even proceed including to its roster with six picks within the 2025 PWHL Draft, together with the fifth general choice. The 2025 PWHL Draft introduced by Higher Deck will happen on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 p.m. ET on the Arduous Rock On line casino and Resort in Ottawa, with the primary three rounds broadcast reside on TSN and in its entirety on TSN+ and on the league’s YouTube channel.
Season Ticket Memberships for the 2025-26 season can be found by way of the Ottawa Cost web site .
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