The Montreal Victoire’s four-game win streak ended Tuesday in Seattle as Alex Carpenter and Julia Gosling led the Torrent to a 2-1 win within the first assembly between the 2 Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League groups.
Abby Roque scored for Montreal at 18:37 of the primary interval to open the scoring. However Hannah Murphy was strong the remainder of the sport, stopping 30 pictures within the second and third durations, together with over the past two and a half minutes, when Montreal pulled goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens for sixth attacker and the Torrent have been shorthanded.
Desbiens made 21 saves.
The Victoire go into the vacation break tied for second place within the PWHL at 11 factors and a 3-1-0-2 report, seven factors behind chief Boston and just one forward of Seattle, which is in its first season with the PWHL.
Victoire Head Coach Kori Cheverie stated
she noticed “a variety of positives” within the 10-day street journey. “You possibly can’t simply take a look at this final sport or final interval. I might even say the primary interval was not our greatest. After which from that second on, we pushed ahead and we preferred the sort of sport that we placed on the ice. From the entire journey, we take what we want from this sport, we take what we want from Halifax and Vancouver after which we transfer into the Bell Centre.”
Montreal subsequent performs the Toronto Sceptres, tied for second at 11 factors, on the Bell Centre on Saturday
(2 p.m., CBC, Radio-Canada)
. Tickets begin at $35.50 for upper-level seats, and a lot of the decrease bowl of the 21,000-seat enviornment is already bought.
Gosling, who scored the winner at 3:23 of the third interval and assisted on Carpenter’s objective at 3:32 of the second, had her third multi-point sport this season. She is the cousin of Montreal rookie ahead Nicole Gosling.
“It’s not our first time taking part in in opposition to one another, however to be right here at this stage, it’s undoubtedly actually particular for each of our households and everybody that helps us,” Nicole Gosling stated. “To each be right here, it’s undoubtedly one thing that we don’t take with no consideration, however it might have been good to get the win.”
