TORONTO — A fluky unassisted purpose from defender Jincy Roese with 70 seconds remaining lifted the Ottawa Cost to a 2-1 Skilled Girls’s Hockey League victory towards the Toronto Sceptres on Tuesday.
TORONTO — A fluky unassisted purpose from defender Jincy Roese with 70 seconds remaining lifted the Ottawa Cost to a 2-1 Skilled Girls’s Hockey League victory towards the Toronto Sceptres on Tuesday.
Roese’s long-range wrist shot was going broad however hit the tip of the correct pad of Toronto goalie Raygan Kirk to alter route to slip in for the game-winner.
The late purpose allowed Ottawa goalie Emerance Maschmeyer to depart with a well-earned win. She made 37 saves as Toronto outshot the Cost 38-13 earlier than 8,278 at Coca-Cola Coliseum.
The 30-year-old netminder from Bruderheim, Alta., was six minutes away from the PWHL’s first shutout this season.
However Hannah Miller scored on the facility play after Ottawa’s Tereza Vanisova was given a five-minute main for boarding and a recreation misconduct.
The newest instalment of the Battle of Ontario arrived lower than 24 hours after the Ontario groups made a four-player commerce.
Late Monday night, Toronto acquired defender Savannah Harmon and ahead Hayley Scamurra from Ottawa for Victoria Bach and veteran defender Jocelyne Larocque.
Bach rushed the puck into Toronto’s finish on a play that led to Ottawa’s game-winner.
A free puck squirted again to Finnish defender Ronja Savolainen, and she or he rifled within the interval’s solely purpose from the excessive slot 7:12 into the second interval.
TAKEAWAYS
Sceptres: Worldwide Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif offered injured Toronto ahead Natalie Spooner with the 2024 IIHF feminine Participant of the 12 months award throughout a first-period timeout.
Cost: Despite the fact that Ottawa did not register its first shot on purpose till the 13:10 mark of the opening interval, the guests scored the sport’s first purpose for the fifth time in seven outings.
KEY MOMENT
Danielle Serdachny had a very good alternative to place Ottawa forward 2-0, however she shot excessive on her breakaway with 58 seconds remaining within the second interval.
KEY STAT
Maschmeyer, the PWHL’s first star final week, entered the sport with a league-leading .929 save proportion.
UP NEXT
Ottawa visits the New York Siren on Jan. 7.
Toronto entertains the Montreal Victoire on Jan. 8.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Dec. 31, 2024.
Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press
