Sarah Nurse scored two objectives within the first interval and completed together with her first profession hat trick as visiting Toronto clinched a top-two seed and home-ice benefit within the first spherical of the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League playoffs with a 6-2 victory over New York at UBS Enviornment on Sunday.
Toronto (11-4-0-7) ties Montreal (10-3-5-5) for first place with a match in hand heading into the ultimate week. Toronto has residence matchups with Minnesota on Wednesday and Ottawa on Might 5 remaining. Montreal, which may end no worse than second, ends its common season at Boston on Saturday.
It took Toronto simply 65 seconds to seize the lead for good.
Nurse used assists from Renata Quick and Hannah Miller on the ability play to open the scoring.
Emma Maltais and Kali Flanagan had assists on Nurse’s second objective, additionally on the ability play, on the 12:54 mark. Maltais pulled right into a four-way tie for the league lead together with her thirteenth help of the season.
Toronto turned it right into a rout with two objectives over a span of 91 seconds within the second interval.
Alexa Vasko scored for a second time this season at 3:56 with assists from Brittany Howard and Rebecca Leslie.
Natalie Spooner adopted together with her league-leading sixteenth objective of the season, six greater than the subsequent closest participant. Jocelyne Larocque notched an help as Toronto took a 4-0 lead after two intervals.
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Sarah Nurse scores a hat trick as PWHL Toronto strikes again atop the standings
Sarah Nurse scored her first-career PWHL hat trick as Toronto thumped New York 6-2.
1st to double figures in objectives, assists
Nurse scored her third objective with an help from Spooner 54 seconds into the ultimate interval for her first profession hat trick. The help offers Spooner 23 factors this season, another than Montreal’s Marie-Philip Poulin within the scoring race. Nurse has 10 objectives and 10 assists this season and sits in fourth place. Nurse is the primary participant within the league’s first season to achieve double figures in each classes.
Leslie’s second objective of the season got here with an help from Howard and stretched the result in 6-0 on the 5:12 mark. The objective tied Montreal’s document for probably the most scored in a single match.
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Toronto goalie Kristen Campbell, who leads the league with three shutouts this season, missed a shot at one other when Abby Roque discovered the web for New York with 11:20 left to play. Alex Campbell notched her thirteenth help and Ella Shelton tallied her tenth on Roque’s fifth netter of the marketing campaign. Campbell is third within the scoring race with 21 factors.
New York’s Brooke Hobson scored her first profession objective — with assists from Micah Zandee-Hart and Jade Downie-Landry on an influence play with 48 seconds remaining — to cap the scoring.
Campbell saved 31 of 33 pictures for Toronto.
Abigail Levy began and saved 18 of 24 pictures for New York (3-4-3-12). Lindsey Put up performed the ultimate 14:31 and stopped all 5 pictures she confronted.
New York opened the season with a 4-0 highway win over Toronto. Toronto has three regulation wins and a shootout victory within the match-up since then.
New York, which has been eradicated from postseason play, closes out the common season at residence towards Ottawa on Tuesday and Minnesota on Saturday.
