Victoria Bach shares news on Instagram, calling her success and opportunities ‘a dream come true’
Victoria Bach is calling it a career.
The 28-year-old Milton forward took to Instagram Sunday to announce her retirement from professional hockey – following her Ottawa Charge’s loss to the now two-time Walter Cup champion Minnesota Frost in the PWHL championship.
“Being a part of the creation of the PWHL, playing in the inaugural season, and representing my hometown and Canada’s capital, playing for my country and wearing the maple leaf, it was all a dream come true,” said Bach, who earned her teacher’s degree during the 2023-24 season and was set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer. “We did it. I’m beyond excited for what the future holds for women’s hockey.”
Milton’s first PWHLer — a seventh-round draft pick in 2023 — Bach was traded to the Charge from the Toronto Sceptres midway through this past season and finished her two-year stint in the league with four goals and 10 points in 46 games.
Her career was highlighted with two gold medals with Canada at the world championships in 2021 and 2022, and a stellar collegiate run with Boston University during which she amassed 104 goals and 198 points in 145 games and was a Patty Kazmaier Award finalist as one of the best players in the NCAA in 2018.
She followed that up with a prosperous but short-lived run in the now disbanded CWHL, where she was named the 2019 Rookie of the Year after a 19-goal, 32-point showing with the Markham Thunder.
Bach was a 2022 Olympic alternate, and inducted into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame in 2023.
