TORONTO — Renata Quick of the Toronto Sceptres scored on a breakaway late in additional time to efficiently rejoice Natalie Spooner’s return after a nine-month layoff from low season knee surgical procedure with a 3-2 win towards the Minnesota Frost on Tuesday.
TORONTO — Renata Quick of the Toronto Sceptres scored on a breakaway late in additional time to efficiently rejoice Natalie Spooner’s return after a nine-month layoff from low season knee surgical procedure with a 3-2 win towards the Minnesota Frost on Tuesday.
With 3.7 seconds remaining within the further three-on-three interval, Quick deked Minnesota goalie Maddie Rooney to deposit a game-winning backhand for Toronto’s second straight victory because the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League begins its second half of the season.
Spooner, final 12 months’s PWHL MVP, was injured on Might 13 in a first-round playoff collection towards Minnesota.
On her second shift again, she hit the far submit on a redirect. Later within the opening interval, Spooner flipped a shot over the crossbar on Toronto’s first energy play. She then assisted on Toronto’s first objective.
The 8,183 at Coca-Cola Coliseum welcomed Spooner again with just a few ovations and several other indicators. One imaginative grownup man dressed as a fork, and held an indication that learn, “Natalie you full me.”
Sophie Jacques and Brooke McQuigge put Minnesota forward 2-0. Jacques transformed a three-on-one rush, 83 seconds into the sport. McQuigge, from close by Bowmanville, Ont., scored on a breakaway halfway by way of the second interval.
The Sceptres tied the sport with targets 1:54 aside. Hannah Miller knocked in her personal rebound as did Daryl Watts.
TAKEAWAYS
Sceptres: Toronto performed with out Sarah Nurse after she suffered a lower-body harm whereas taking part in for Canada in a 2-1 shootout loss towards the USA in Halifax final Thursday within the Rivalry Collection.
Frost: Defender Jacques, who hails from Toronto, loved a powerful sport with a objective and an help.
KEY MOMENTA nifty penalty kill from Toronto — significantly by ahead Emma Maltais — early within the third interval saved the sport tied 2-2.
KEY STAT
A primary-period help from Minnesota ahead Kendall Coyne Schofield elevated her whole to fifteen factors in 16 video games to tug her even with league-leader Sarah Fillier of the New York Sirens and one shy of Coyne Schofield’s level whole in 24 video games final season.
UP NEXT
Frost: Go to the Ottawa Cost on Thursday.
Sceptres: Host the Boston Fleet on Friday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 11, 2025.
Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press
