Ottawa Charge, Vancouver Goldeneyes make six-player PWHL swap

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Charge and Vancouver Goldeneyes have executed a six-player trade in the Professional Women’s Hockey League.

The Charge acquired Canadian centre Michela Cava, forward Brooke McQuigge and veteran defender Emma Greco from the expansion Goldeneyes and sent Russian winger Anna Shokhina, Austrian forward Anna Meixner and American forward Mannon McMahon to Vancouver.

Ottawa (3-4-0-6) ranks sixth in the eight team league and Vancouver (3-1-2-7) last.

Cava of Thunder Bay, Ont., won back-to-back Walter Cups with the Minnesota Frost in the PWHL’s first two seasons before signing a two-year contract with Vancouver. The 31-year-old has 15 goals and 17 assists in 67 PWHL games.

The 25-year-old McQuigge of Bowmanville, Ont., also played for the Frost last season and had one assist in 13 games this season for Vancouver.

Greco, 30, of Burlington, Ont., joins her fourth PWHL team after stints with Minnesota, Boston and Vancouver. The defender’s plus-minus was minus-2 in 13 games with the Goldeneyes.

Shokhina, a three-time Olympian for Russia, has a goal and three assists in a dozen games in her rookie PWHL season. The 28-year-old signed a one-year contract with the Charge last year.

Meixner, 31, had two goals in 13 games for the Charge. She was a sixth-round pick by Ottawa in the 2024 draft.

McMahon, 24, has five goals and five assists in 43 career games with the Charge.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 19, 2026.