OTTAWA, ON The Ottawa Cost introduced at the moment the addition of Emma Bergesen who has signed a Skilled Girls’s Hockey League (PWHL) Normal 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 just lately from her five-year tenure at Mount Royal College. With the Cougars, Bergesen received a U SPORTS Nationwide Championship in 2023 and earned two straight First Crew 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 very good upside,” mentioned Cost Normal Supervisor Mike Hirshfeld. “She is a puck shifting defender with sturdy offensive instincts. Her hockey sense and her imaginative and prescient are glorious. We actually 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 event’s high division for the primary time since 1997. At April’s Girls’s Worlds in Czechia, Bergesen scored a aim and an help in 4 video games. In February, she contributed three assists in 4 video games at an Olympic Qualifying event in Sweden. In 2022-23, Bergesen was honoured with the celebrated Gullpucken Award in recognition of the Norwegian Participant of the 12 months.
“I’ve had a tough time to settle down since getting this contract to play within the PWHL. It was an enormous aim of mine to play on this league as soon as it acquired began,” mentioned Bergesen. “Ottawa was engaging to me as a result of I’ve been following the league. I noticed how nicely this crew did final season. I witnessed the passion of the fan base. The environment on the rink and round this crew is unreal. There’s a consolation stage in becoming a member of a crew and training workers that has confidence in European gamers. I can’t wait to convey my offensive recreation to Ottawa and battle 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 underneath 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 Exhausting 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 through the Ottawa Cost web site .
